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Price: US$18.94 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. An ex-school copy with stamp on front flyleaf, rear paste down and on 1 further page. A reasonable reading copy. Inner hinges cracked, and binding sections parting, although no pages loose. pos on pre-title & verso pages. some browning to eps. Pages edges unevenly cut. Fading brown cloth cover with gilt leaves for decoration. Immediate despatch from the UK.
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tan buckram binding with gilt decorations on upper board and gilt decorations and lettering on spine; bevelled boards. Fading in a vertical strip on upper board next to spine, on spine and along the margins of the rear board, front endpaper partially cracked at hinge and some fine spotting to rear endpaper; internally pretty nice. Frontispiece and title page designed by Laurence Housman. pp. [viii] + 65 + [1 blank] + [2 ad] + 16 ads.
Seller: Purpora Books, Comox, BC, Canada
Francis Thompson.. SISTER - SONGS AND OFFERING TO TWO SISTERS.. , 1895.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Description: 1895, London, John Lane at The Bodley Head, small 4to, pp(viii) + 65 + (ii) + 16, full green buckram, gilt designs. The Art Nouveau binding frontispiece and title page designed by Laurence Housman. A little faded around the edges, otherwise good.
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.04 + shipping
Description: End papers foxed; spine faded to brown, but gilt still bright. First edition, first issue, with publisher's ads at rear dated 1895. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in olive green cloth with gilt
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.24 + shipping
Description: Half title, front. & decorated title by Laurence Housman printed in orange. Uncut in orig. green buckram, bevelled boards with gilt leaf design, spine lettered & dec. in gilt; sl. faded. Ink inscription on leading f.e.p. 'J.K. Bathurst, June 1897'. Francis Thompson, 1859-1907, was a renowned poet and author who - after dropping out of medical school in order to pursue his passion for writing - became addicted to opium while homeless and living on the streets of London. After three years on the streets he was taken in by publishers Wilfrid and Alice Meynell, who helped get him treatment for his addiction and supported him while he wrote. He had found success by the time of his death from tuberculosis in 1907, and was well regarded for his poetry and essays, including his most famous poem The Hound of Heaven.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Sq. 8vo, olive green buckram, stamped in gilt, bevelled boards. Faded as usual, a couple of spots at edge of title-page, but a very good copy.
Seller: Charles Cox Rare Books , Bude, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Housman, laurence. First Edition. Frontispiece by Laurence Housman. 65, [1], [16, ads] pp. 1 vols. Sm 4to. Kraus 27 Original tan polished linen, gilt, designed by Housman, lacks fly leaf, else fine Frontispiece by Laurence Housman. 65, [1], [16, ads] pp. 1 vols. Sm 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$94.26 + shipping
Description: First edition. Sm. square 4to., orig. tan buckram, (4), (66), (2), 16pp.ads dated 1895. Lacking the front free e/paper, some fading to the spine and perimeter but certainly a very good copy. Colbeck II, p.862, #2.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Thompson, Francis. Sister-Songs. John Lane at The Bodley Head, 1895.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green buckram. Covers little faded, else nice copy.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue ads. Small quarto. Greenish-brown beveled cloth boards gilt. Sunning at the spine and extremities, very good or better.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue ads. Small quarto. Greenish-brown beveled cloth boards gilt. Sunning at the spine and extremities, modest spot on front board, very good or better.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$272.25 + shipping
Description: First edition; 8vo (200 x 155 mm); frontispiece by Laurence Housman with tissue guard, decorative title printed in orange, 16pp. advertisements; publisher's bevelled buckram with gilt leaf motif reminiscent of Charles Shannon, a little sunned, partly uncut. Further poems by the English poet, and Catholic mystic, Francis Thompson. Potentially inspired by the author's relationship with the daughters of Alice and Wilfrid Meynell, who had rescued Thompson both from obscurity and life on the streets.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom