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Price: US$48.45 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1921. Reprinted. 144 pages. No dust jacket. Blue paper covered boards with cream cloth to spine. Rough cut textblock edges. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Light crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and edges. Brown marks to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London:Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society, Ltd. 1921. x+144pp. Top edges gilt. Limited edition of 1025 copies of which this is No. 589. With Portrait and title page design engraved on the wood by William Nicholson. Hardcover. In very good condition. Blue boards with textured tan spine soiled/age-toned with labels on spine and front board age-toned. Internally, age-toning to end pages but otherwise paper clean and bright, free of previous owners marks or signatures.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy. Philip Lee Warner / The Medici Society, London, 1921.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Philip Lee Warner/The Medici Society: 1921. Octavo. Hardcover with a glassine dust cover. This is copy number 602 of 1025 printed on hand made Riccardi paper with gilt top stain. Tan and blue grey boards with discoloration to the front and back boards, rubbing along the bottom edge and fraying to the fore edges of the boards. Still a very good copy in a glassine jacket.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontis and title page design by William Nicholson, 9 x 6.5", cloth backed scarlet boards with spine and front cover title labels, 144pp + colophon, covers rubbed, spine darkened, extremities (especially top edge of front cover) worn, pp toned, ink inscription from former owner on front fly; still a decent copy. LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #617).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.45 + shipping
Description: Prize certificate loosely inserted. Weight: 1.0 Language: English
Seller: Acanthophyllum Books, Holywell, FLINT, United Kingdom
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Description: 144 pages. 23 x 16.5 cm. Printed in the Riccardi Press fount at the Chiswick Press. A clean, fresh copy, owner inscription free front endpaper, tiny nick backstrip back cover. Orig. beige cloth and gray/blue boards, spine labels front cover and spine. Very good/Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Printed in the Riccardi Press fount at the Chiswick Press. Pale blue paper-covered boards with quarter cloth spine and title in black on paper labels pasted on to front cover and spine. Page edges untrimmed to fore-edge and base of textblock. Condition: Good, with general shelfwear to covers including some light bumping to top rear cover corner, and some light sunning and soiling to covers including spine. 144pp. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas Hardy by William Nicholson, printed in brown and black. One of a limited edition of 1000 copies, this copy is out of sequence and does not have a number on the limitation page (see image)
Seller: Karen Jakobsen (Member of the PBFA), Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.28 + shipping
Description: A very nice copy of this limited edition. Pale blue hardback with cloth spine. A little marking / staining to the base of the spine. Paper labels to the front board and spine (spine is somewhat darkened). Owners inscription to the front end page. Limited to 1025 copies, this is copy 470. Printed on Riccardi Paper. Internally, the book is clean and tidy. Lovely rough cut paper. Beautiful illustrations by William Nicholson. An excellent copy. Spare labels to the rear end paper. 240 by 175mm (9½ by 7 inches). x, 1-144, [iv]. pp.
Seller: Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, Richelieu, France
Price: US$133.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society Ltd., 1921 (first thus). Small quarto, x, 145 pages with a frontispiece portrait and title-vignette by William Nicholson; spare title-labels tipped in at the rear. Quarter cloth and paper boards with paper title labels; top edge gilt, others uncut; covers a little sunned; spine label slightly worn; some faint tanning; later pencilled ownership details; an excellent copy. Number 244 of 1025 copies on Riccardi hand-made paper (of which only 1000 were for sale), printed in the Riccardi Press fount at the Chiswick Press (a further 14 copies were printed on vellum).
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Paper Copy Number 752 of 1025. Portrait & Title Page Design Engraved on the Wood by William Nicholson. Cream boards, gilt title on spine and front, pale pink/cream marbled endpapers, 144 deckled, number pages. Dark green ribbon attached. Boards mottled, curled outwards, subtle tear (/14 inch) on front at head of spine, remnants of tape on paste-downs, pages darkened around edges, ffep lightly chipped on fore edge, previous owner's (Kenneth Porter Kirkwood, author/diplomat) stamp in ink on top of 5 pages, occasional light smudging. Binding tight. Overall, good plus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lindenlea Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Copy 607 of 1025. 144 pp, first published as Golden Press Treasury sweries @1916. Part I: Poems Chiefly Lyrical; Part II: Poems Narrative and Reflective; Part III: War Poems and Lyrics from 'The Dynasts'; gutter shows slight separation between title verso and table of contents, else binding tight, page fore-edges a bit darkened and wavy with age, gilt top edge VG, spine cloth worn at head and tail 1/4" threads show, wear to top & bottom board forecorners - boards show at the tips, 6.6" x 9.25" with 1" hinge tan cloth bound / gray papered boards. includes Clear glassine wrapper. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Description: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to The Medici Society Ltd. London. Printed at The Chiswick Press. 1921. LIMITED EDITION OF 1025 OF WHICH 1000 are for sale. This copy is number 159. Original blue paper covered boards with light tan hessian spine. Paper labels, one spare at rear of book. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Coloured portrait frontis. engraved in wood with vignette to title-page, also engraved by William Nicholson. Top edge of boards sunned, endpapers browned otherwise a remarkably clean and fresh copy of a very attractively produced volume.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$252.35 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Limited to 1000 copies printed in the Riccardi fount on hand made Riccardi Paper. The present copy in #751. Engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette title page, 144pp., bound in full vellum, upper board lettered in gilt, spine and top edge gilt, all others uncut, marbled endpapers, binding with soiling or foxing, spine darkened. Internally fresh without names, bookplates, or foxing. A very nice copy.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Hardy, Thomas. SELECTED POEMS. , 1921.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: [in dust jacket] With Portrait and Title Page Engraved on Wood by William Nicholson. London, Liverpool and Boston: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher to the Medici Society, 1921. Original blue-grey paper-covered boards with natural linen spine with cover and spine labels, with dust jacket. Riccardi Press Edition, being copy #663 of 1000 copies. Hardy and Macmillan first published this collection of 120 poems in 1916. They selected poems that the "General Reader" might like, from Hardy's five previous volumes of verse -- plus nine from his as-yet-unpublished MOMENTS OF VISION. "Hardy set great store by the volume., hoping it would bring his poetry to a wider public" [Purdy]. Five years later The Medici Society published this volume, illustrated by William Nicholson and printed at The Riccardi Press. This volume is in fine condition except for a bumped fore-corner; the two spare labels are still tipped in at the rear. Included is the uncommon dust jacket, which, outside of a little fading and a couple of droplet-marks, is in close-to-fine condition; at the top of the front flap there is a jacket-printing mishap, in that the corner of the flap was folded over when the flap was printed. The book is not scarce but the delicate jacket definitely is. Purdy p. 187.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Description: , x, 144 pages, this being a limited edition copy which has been hand printed in the Riccardi fount on hand-made Riccardi paper, with colour tinted Portrait & Title Page Design Engraved on the Wood by William Nicholson Limited Edition of 1025 Copies , cloth lightly marked on front, nice clean and tight binding, neat owner's inscription on front blank, internally nice and clean, book in very good condition , half green morocco with cloth sides, gilt title and decoration on spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers Quarto, 23 x 16 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
HARDY, Thomas.. Selected Poems.. London: Philip Lee Warner / The Medici Society, 1921, 1921.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: First Riccardi edition, number 705 of 1,000 copies printed on handmade paper, from total edition of 1,014 copies, here retaining the scarce dust jacket. "Hardy set great store by the volume. hoping it would bring his poetry to a wider public" (Purdy). Purdy, p. 187 Octavo. Original tan quarter cloth, blue paper boards, printed paper labels to spine and front cover lettered in black, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, green silk bookmarker, spare labels tipped-in at rear. With dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait and title vignette by William Nicholson, with tissue guard. Faint foxing to spine label; jacket slightly sunned, flaps without price as issued: a fine copy in near-fine dust jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom