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Walter De La Mare. Songs of Childhood. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1923.
Price: US$23.19 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1923 reprint. Small Octavo. xiii, 173pp. Illustrated. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles and decoration. T.E.G. Minor dust-soiling to extremities. In the illustrative dust wrapper, edge worn with minor rubbing, nicks and chips. Otherwise a 'Good+' copy.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: this copy has a solid tight binding with clean unmarked pages, cover illustrations by A.Y.Jackson. bumped corners, and fading to the green cloth covers.
Seller: Heroes Bookshop, Paris, ON, Canada
Terry, Richard Runciman. Old Rhymes With New Tunes. Longmans, Green & Company, London, 1923.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green paper covered boards with blue cloth spine, lightly rubbed with faint sticker blemish front panel. Worn on points, tightly bound with no markings. New Impression edition. Collection of illustrated nursery rhymes - Cock-a-doodle-doo, Little Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty, Little Jack Horner, etc. ; MCF04219; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 32 pp
Seller: McCormick Books, Hartland, MI, U.S.A.
De La Mare, (Walter). Songs of Childhood. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1923.
Price: US$25.77 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Gilt motif to front cover with gilt sea horses to spine. Gilt edges to top pages. Charming illustrations by Estella Canziani. Slight rubbing to spine and covers Size: Small Octavo. Category: Children; For further information on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.
Seller: The Petersfield Bookshop, ABA, ILAB, Petersfield, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Brown paper covered board with green cloth spine. Green lettering on front cover with 6" X 3 1/2" Illustrations by A.Y. Jackson. 31pp.
Seller: Old Favorites Bookshop LTD (since 1954), Stouffville, ON, Canada
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: this copy has a solid tight binding with clean unmarked pages, cover illustrations by A.Y.Jackson.
Seller: Heroes Bookshop, Paris, ON, Canada
DE LA MARE, Walter. SONGS OF CHILDHOOD. Longmans Green & Co, 1923.
Price: US$36.07 + shipping
Description: New edition. 8vo. Navy blue cloth, lettered and decorated gilt to the spine, gilt vignette to the upper cover. A very good copy, bookplate to front pastedown and inked name to endpaper. Eight colour plates, under tissue guards, by Estella Canziani, plus many full page and vignette illustrations in black and white.
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Walter De La Mare. Songs of Childhood. Longmans, Green, & Co., 1923.
Price: US$50.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1923. New Edition. 173 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout by Estella Canziani. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Some page corners folded. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
de la Mare, Walter. Songs of Childhood. Longmans Green and Co, 1923.
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'Songs of Childhood' by Walter de la Mare. Longmans, Green and Co 1923 new edition. Limited edition of 310 copies signed by de la Mare. This is No. 41. Pages uncut. Very good in good dust jacket with some sunning and an internally repaired tear down the spine.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE,WALTER. Songs of Childhood. longmans green london 1923, 1923.
Price: US$122.72 + shipping
Description: new edition signed by author 174pp ills.[b/w and col.by estella canziani] VG+ (blue cloth w.gilt dec.to top board,v.sl.soiled,spine v.sl.sunned,eps and content edges sl.foxed,author's sign.to slip of paper pasted to ffep)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York, Toronto, Bombay, Calcutta and Madras: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923. 1923. Very good. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY WALTER DE LA MARE - Octavo, light grayish blue boards backed with a natural white parchment spine, titled in gilt on the spine. The white spine is slightly soiled and the edges of the covers are darkened. xiv, [i], 173 & [1] deckle-edged pages, with numerous textual illustrations and 8 color plates by Estella Canziani. Gotham Book Mart's discreet book label is mounted at the bottom of the rear pastedown. An internally near fine unopened copy, with an extra label tipped-in onto the rear pastedown. Limited edition of 310 numbered large paper copies, signed by Walter de la Mare.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. Songs of Childhood. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1923.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First thus. 8vo, half vellum, gilt lettering. The deluxe edition, limited to 310 copies signed y de la Mare. Illustrated with 8 full-page mounted color plates by Estella Canziani. A very good copy with lower corners heavily rubbed, some light soiling, bookplate inside front cover, pencil erasures on front flyleaves. Pristine text block. Lacking dustjacket.
Seller: Burns' Bizarre, IOBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
de la Mare, Walter. SONGS OF CHILDHOOD. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1923.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First illustrated edition of his first book, published under the name Walter Ramal in 1902. One of 310 SIGNED numbered copies with illustrations by Estella Canziani. Printed on hand-made paper and bound with vellum spine and boards. Spine a little soiled, corners bumped and spine ends have a few chips, otherwise very good condition.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. SONGS OF CHILDHOOD. Longmans, Green & Co., 1923.
Price: US$128.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st thus 1923. Very good condition with no wrapper. Originally published in 1902, this is the new and limited edition of 310 copies. Cream vellum spine with gilt title, grey boards. 8 pretty colour plates mounted with tissue-guards plus b/w illustrations. 172 pages, edges untrimmed. This is copy no. 204 SIGNED by the author. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Spine and cover edges browned. Covers slightly grubby. Name plate to front pastedown. Tissue-guards to plates are browned. A couple of hinges are cracked. A few foxspots to contents. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE, Walter. Songs of Childhood - SIGNED limited edition. London: Longmans Green, 1923.
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A New Edition, limited edition of 310 copies, this being #165, and SIGNED by the author to the limitation page. Bound in quarter vellum over paper covered hard boards. With 8 colour plate illustrations by Estella Canziani. Songs of Childhood was originally published in 1902. Some pages remain uncut. The book is in lovely Fine condition, the jacket is tanned to the spine and has a small hole (7mm x 3mm) to the lower spine.
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. Songs of Childhood. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1923.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: One of 310 numbered copies with colored illustrations, signed by the author.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Canziani, Estella. New edition, Number 220 of 350 copies, signed. Illustrated with colour tipped in Illustrations by Estella Canziani. 175 oo. 1 vols. 12mo. Vellum and blue boards, edges uncut. Fine in slightly rubbed and soiled dj Illustrated with colour tipped in Illustrations by Estella Canziani. 175 oo. 1 vols. 12mo New edition, Number 220 of 350 copies, signed.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 174 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: 1.2: KB#010243: No Jacket As Issued. Boards now protected by a new Brodart Archival Mylar Cover. Book binding is dark blue boards with gilt spine lettering and gilt twin-seahorses emblem on spine and front board emblem of little girl with two fairies. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except for small bookstore label neatly affixed to bottom of rear endpaper), brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered (with very light rubbing at spine corners). Top edge gilt. Illustrations include frontispiece plus seven other color plates along with many black & white drawings. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book.: Color Illustrations
Seller: Keener Books (Member IOBA), Menomonee Falls, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$231.89 + shipping
Description: FIRST CANZIANI EDITION. 8vo. (7.5 x 5.1 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 8 wonderful full colour plates and dozens of line illustrations by Estella Canziani. A fine, bright copy in a fine, contemporary leather binding by Birdsall. Half dark green morocco, spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments double ruled and decorated with gilt flowers, each with red coloured petals. Green cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine pretty binding on this beautiful book. There was also a large paper, limited edition of this edition.:
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Walter De La Mare. Songs of Childhood. Longman Green, London, 1923.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SONGS OF CHILDHOOD. New Edition. DE LA MARE. WALTER.; CANZIANI. ESTELLA. Illustrates. Quantity Available: 1 Longmans, Green and Co. London., 1923. FIRST CANZIANI EDITION. 8vo Royal 9 by 6 inches. Beautifully illustrated with 8 wonderful full colour plates and dozens of line illustrations by Estella Canziani. A fine, bright copy in a fine, contemporary 3/4 red morocco Art Nouveau custom binding signed by Birdsall. , spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments double ruled and decorated with gilt rules each with Greek designs a la Nouveau. Red cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. A fine pretty binding on this beautiful book. Superb printing on 100% Rag hand made paper with deckle edge, very heavy stock, superb copy.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 310 copies only, of which this is no. 185. Octavo, pp. xiii, [1], 173, [1]. With 8 colour full page plates by Estella Canziani and additional black and white illustrations. Bound in quarter vellum and pale blue paper over publisher's boards, gilt fillet to vellum edge, gilt titles to spine, all edges uncut. With the original publisher's cream dust-jacket. Dust-jacket lightly faded to spine, slightly finger-marking with some miniscule nicks to top edge. A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. An excellent copy of this charming illustrated edition of De La Mare's first published work. Many of the pages unopened, the book appears unread and is a rare survival in the original 1923 dust-jacket. Boldly signed by De La Mare to the limitation leaf.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom