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GRAHAM ROBERTSON, W.. Old English Songs And Dances.. London, Longman's Green And Co, 1902, 1902.
Price: US$128.28 + shipping
Description: First edition. This is a large book, quarter-bound in cloth with rounded spine and illustrated paper to cover. Consists of ten songs and six dances artfully arranged and illustrated with Robertson's original watercolour drawings and hand lettered text and music. Photoengraved and screen printed in facsimile by Edmund Evans. Pictorial boards shows signs of rubbing, scrapes and chips, with rough spine ends. Small neat previous owners name to front. Some minor foxing to several pages. The songs and illustrations are all bright and clean. Walford Graham Robertson (1866 - 1948) was best known as an accomplished author and illustrator, and as a prominent member of London Society. 400 x 290 mm (15¾ x 11½ inches).
Seller: Harrison-Hiett Rare Books, Richelieu, France
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: folio (400 x 290 mm). quarter-bound in cloth with rounded spine and illustrated paper to cover. unpaginated. Decorated by W.G. Robertson. First edition. Some toning/soiling to the covers, corners bumped. Minor shelfwear. A very good copy. Consists of ten songs and six dances artfully arranged and illustrated with Robertson's original watercolour drawings and hand lettered text and music. Photoengraved and screen printed in facsimile by Edmund Evans. Walford Graham Robertson (1866 - 1948) was best known as an accomplished author and illustrator, and as a prominent member of London Society. quarter-bound in cloth with rounded spine and illustrated paper to cover
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$154.34 + shipping
Description: 2°. ca. 60 S. mit Abb. und Noten. OHln. Einband berieben und leicht bestoßen, Seiten durchgehend stockfleckig. Bibliophile Erstausgabe (jedes Lied mit zwei farbigen Holz schnitten illustriert).
Seller: Musikantiquariat Bernd Katzbichler, Unterwössen, D, Germany
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of de la Mare's first book. This copy is from the library of Jean Hersholt (1896-1956), a Danish-American Hollywood actor known for his role in Heidi and for his impressive collection of Anderseniana, which represented possibly the largest collection in America of Andersen's work. A Songs of Childhood is a collection of poems, some of which are aimed "directly at child readers, others recreate the state of childhood itself - to him always life's summit - its pure wonder, intuitions, solitary fantasy, and above all its readiness to see this world as part of another, no less real for being magical and spiritual" (ODNB). De La Mare's pseudonym "Walter Ramal" was a short-lived persona, and he started publishing under his own name in 1904. Hayward 315. Octavo. Original vellum-backed blue cloth ruled in gilt, gilt publisher's device to front board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Sepia frontispiece from a drawing by Richard Doyle with tissue guard. Illustrated bookplate of Jean Hersholt to front pastedown. Spine worn and soiled, lacks front free endpaper, else internally fresh and unmarked; a good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
. Old English Songs and Dances. Longmans, Green & Co.: London, 1902.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Description: Color illustrations by W. Graham Robertson, 15.5 x 11.5", cloth backed pict boards, unpaginated, covers rubbed, spotted and toned, extremities bumped and worn, hinges loose, contents toned and foxed, with a bookplate inside front cover announcing that the book is now being published by John Lane; in a sunned, worn, chipped, torn dustjacket with a revised price inkstamped on front cover. Still, with a REMARKABLY BRIGHT, COLORFUL ILLUSTRATION ON EACH PAGE BY W. GRAHAM ROBERTSON.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This is Walter De La Mare's first book, a collection of poetry which he wrote under the pen name (pseudonym) of Walter Ramal. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book.
Seller: Keener Books (Member IOBA), Menomonee Falls, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$577.24 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the author's first book, a notably fresh copy. Songs of Childhood is a collection of poems, some of which are aimed "directly at child readers, others recreate the state of childhood itself - to him always life's summit - its pure wonder, intuitions, solitary fantasy, and above all its readiness to see this world as part of another, no less real for being magical and spiritual" (ODNB). De La Mare's pseudonym "Walter Ramal" was short-lived, and he started publishing under his own name in 1904. Octavo. Original japon-backed light blue cloth ruled in gilt, publisher's device in gilt on front board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed cloth slipcase and chemise. Sepia photogravure frontispiece by Walter L. Colls reproducing a drawing by Richard Doyle, with tissue guard. 20th-century bookplate of one B. Adams Burnett on front pastedown. Spine toned and rubbed at ends, head of front joint nicked, a little peripheral toning and couple of marks to cloth, light foxing to endpapers, contents clean. A very good copy indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$994.14 + shipping
Description: First edition. Folio. pp [64]. Ten songs and six dances, the music and lyrics provided by Robertson in calligraphic form. Each piece is accompanied by between one and three of his distinctively rich colour illustrations. Buckram-backed colour pictorial boards.Sporadic light foxing. Some slight discolouring to the spine. Covers rubbed at the edges. Very good in the rare dustwrapper which is good, slightly faded at the spine and edges, chipped and torn with repairs on the reverse.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1090.35 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of de la Mare's first book, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Walter de la Mare for Elbridge Adams with his best wishes" accompanied by the final stanza of his poem "The Buckle", "I had a secret laughter, I laughed it near the wall:, Only the ivy & the wind, May tell of it at all, February 1929". Adams ran The Fountain Press in New York. Songs of Childhood is a collection of poems, some of which are aimed "directly at child readers, others recreate the state of childhood itself - to him always life's summit - its pure wonder, intuitions, solitary fantasy, and above all its readiness to see this world as part of another, no less real for being magical and spiritual" (ODNB). De La Mare's pseudonym "Walter Ramal" was a short-lived persona, and he started publishing under his own name in 1904. A particularly nice copy. Hayward 315. Octavo. Original quarter vellum, ruled gilt, blue cloth with gilt publisher's device, top edge gilt. Housed in a blue morocco slipcase and blue folder. Sepia frontispiece from a drawing by Richard Doyle with tissue guard. With the bookplates of. H. Bradley Martin and Brian Fenwick-Smith to inner panels of chemise, and of Mildred and Harold Greenhill to front pastedown. A near-fine copy, clean and fresh throughout, though with the usual tanning to the spine.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom