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Douglas, Norman. Siren Land. J. M. Dent and Sons / E. P. Dutton, London / New York, 1911.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, no additional printings. Original green cloth, no dj. Good (gilt on spine faded, also teg faded; book shaken; cocked; cracked at pages 1, 17, 64, 97, 144, 160, 209, 240, 272, 274, and 288; marginalia at pages 80, 88, 90, 93, and 222-223; underlining to page 209; bottom edge of page 209 chipped; large (old) bookplate on front pastedown which has transferred to ffep); 302pp incl. index.
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman.. SIREN LAND.. J. M. Dent; E. P. Dutton,, London & New York,, 1911.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp viii, 302, [26] plates. Original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt on spine and lettered and decorated in black on the front cover. Slight browning to endpapers, otherwise bright, clean, very good+. Neat stamp on the front endpaper stating, 'file' copy and neat pencilled note on the front pastedown, 'file copy 6/- net March 8th 1911 (publication date)' with a clean perforated stamp on the title page, again stating 'file copy'.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Douglas, Norman. Siren Land. J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1911.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Foxing to prelims, offset to FFEP o/w clean, unmarked with firm hinges, light wear to corners, head and heel. Internally clean. Gilt titles to spine bright, black titles to front clean and pronounced. Handsome copy. TM/Case
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. Siren Land. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1911.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: One of 1500 copies. Illustrated. viii, 302 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Woolf A13a; Connolly, 100 Modern Books, 20 Green pictorial cloth, t.e.g. Spine ends chipped, frontispiece detached, overall very good. Bookplate Illustrated. viii, 302 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 1/8 inches x 7 5/8 in., half-title; frontispiece with tissue guard; title-page printed in red and black with winged horse design in olive green; list of illustrations; viii, [1]-302 pp., including index; with a total of twenty-five black and white photo-illustrations, and a Bartholomew map of Sorrento & Capri; a number of the illustrations reproduce photographic views of the area. Olive green cloth with titling gilt on the spine with a siren design, titling with designs on the front cover, top-edge gilt. The spine ends, cover corners, edges show light wear, small nick to the upper front cover edge, the spine shows tanning, with some glaze present, and a spot from a removed label; age-related tanning to the endpapers, and scattered tan spotting to tissue guard, the titles, prelims., page margins. In a dark green cloth-covered slipcase, with a matching, wraparound chemise, the inner surface of the chemise is lined with a marbled paper, and has a brown cloth pull; the slipcase is gilt-lettered on the spine: "Siren Land Douglas First Issue London 1911". Woolf A13a; Connolly 100, 20. Weight: 2 lbs.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Douglas, Norman. Siren Land. J. M. Dent, London, 1911.
Price: US$939.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 302 pp. 26 illustrations. Green cloth with front board illustrated and lettered in black, with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Darkened endpapers, board tips very lightly rubbed, cloth rubbed in a couple of places, spine ends lightly bumped, with a small stain to the very foot of the spine. Binding is tight and square. Clean and tight copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
DOUGLAS, Norman. Siren Land. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1911.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, English issue. Small octavo. Frontispiece illustration and tissue guard. Olive pictorial cloth which is decorated in black on the front cover and stamped in gilt on the spine, with topedges gilt, and illustrated from drawings and black and white photographs and drawings. Some of the usual toning on the free endpapers but a very nice near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. Of the 1500 copies printed, 200 were issued in New York by E. P. Dutton & Co., and 890 copies were inadvertently pulped by the publisher, leaving only 410 copies (including this one) to comprise the true first edition. A scarce Connolly *Modern Movement* title. Woolf A13a.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
DOUGLAS, Norman.. Siren-Land.. J.M. Dent, London., 1911.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 302 pages. 26 black and white plates. Original green decorated cloth. Top edge gilt. Travels in southern Italy.Of the 1500 copies printed, 200 were used for the American edition and a further 890 were pulped (without the author's knowledge). Contemporary (1912) gift inscription on front free endpaper. Small bookplate on front pastedown. Free endpapers partially tanned. An exceptionally bright copy with only the slightest rubbing at head and tail of spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
DOUGLAS, NORMAN. Siren-Land. J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, London, 1911.
Price: US$1127.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Pp. viii, 302. Frontispiece with tissue guard plus 23 plates, map, 1 text illustration. Green cloth, front cover lettered and illustrated in black, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. Free endpapers tanned, small, neat pencil notes to front free endpaper, several neat ink corrections to the index. Very light rubbing to tips, otherwise a very clean, very good, square, tight copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada