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VANSITTART, Robert. The Singing Caravan ; A Sufi Tale. The Gregynog Press, Newtown Wales, 1932.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Description: Number 77 of 250 copies. Internally very good with slight browning and a few faint marks. Uncut edges of textblock a bit grubby. Binding firm. Cover sound but rather scuffed and worn. Priced accordingly. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #172 of a limited edition of 250 copies. Printed on hand-made paper with decorations and frontispiece by William Mac.Cance, handset type by Idris and Idwal Jones. Bound in full brown leather with gilt spine and upper cover titling, 4to, 143pp. (shelfwear, rubbing and light scoffing to corners, tips and spine, browning, foxing and light staining to endpapers and foreedge margins) Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Vansittart, Robert. The Singing Caravan. Gregynog Press, 1932.
Price: US$212.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Sufi tale. Decorations and frontispiece by William MacCance. Full brown sheepskin. Presentation inscription. Prelims spotted, covers little bumped. Nice copy.One of 250 numbered copies.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of the 225 copies bound in brown Welsh sheepskin, corners and edges lightly bumped and worn, couple of small marks, gilt tooling and titling to upper cover. Spine is worn a little at edges, gilt tooling and title blocked in gilt on upper cover, title in gilt. Internally, NO inscriptions, some offsetting to turn ins on fep and faintly from frontis, (vii), 142pp, (3), published 5 November 1932, wood engraved frontispiece, tail piece and initial letters by William MacCance. One of the more difficult Gregynog titles to find. (Harrop 22) Vansittart, diplomatist, whose most celebrated piece, The Singing Caravan (1933), which read as a kind of Canterbury Tales set in Persia, ran into several editions and was much admired by his distant kinsman T. E. Lawrence. See ODNB for a full Bio.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom