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William Blake. Songs of Innocence. The Medici Society, 1927.
Price: US$19.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1927. No Edition Remarks. 43 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Boards are bowed. Visible wear marks to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$23.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 47p large format hardback, blue cloth, with colour plates and illustrations, first reprinting, very good Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
William Blake. Songs of Innocence. London The Medici Society 1927, 1927.
Price: US$23.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second impression of the first edition. Bound in blue cloth with gilt illustration and lettering to front and gilt lettering to spine. Spine is faded. Edges are bumped. No dust jacket. Pages are age tanned with slight foxing to prelims. Binding is tight. Illustrations in colour and line drawings by Jacynth Parsons. 4to.
Seller: Reader's Books, Petworth, United Kingdom
Blake, William;. Songs of Innocence. Medici Society, 1927.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 2nd printing (1927) of this illustrated edition. A very good copy in the original blue cloth stamped in gilt (light wear to cloth).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
William Blake. Songs Of Innocence. The Medici Society, 1927.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated by Jacynth Parsons. 2nd impression.
Seller: Parrot Books, Hemel Hempstead, HERT, United Kingdom
Blake, William. SONGS OF INNOCENCE. The Medici Society, Boston, MA, 1927.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth covers with gold gilt lettering and design on spine and front cover which is bright and attractive. Light wear and bumping to corners and spine ends. Very light shelf wear to covers. Light yellowing to page ends, inside front and back covers and text due to age. Text is otherwise clean and unmarked. Hinges are tight. Many very nice b&w and full page color illustrations that are beautiful and original. All are present and in fine condition. The artist is 16 years old and considered a prodigy. This is her rendition artistic rendition of the poem. Illustrated dj has multiple tears and chips on corners and spine ends. Large tears and chips with creasing on bottom edge of back cover and hinge. Heavy soiling to spine. Light wear, soiling and shelf wear to front edges, hinges and covers. "With a prefatory letter by W.B. Yeats." All of our books are individually inspected and never ex-lib unless explicitly described as such.
Seller: Great Matter Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
Blake, William; Yeats, William Butler. Songs of Innocence. Medici Society, 1927.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: The Medici Society, 1927. Second impression. xi[i]+42p. 12 col plates with tissue guards and many b & w illus. in text. Illustrated by Jacynth Parsons. With a prefatory letter by W.B. Yeats. Browning to endpapers. Tissue guard to frontispiece creased. Blue gilt cloth boards bright, spine somewhat faded, scuffing to all corners and head and tail of spine.
Seller: Leabeck Books, Steventon, OXON, United Kingdom
Blake, William. Songs of Innocence. The Medici Society, London & Boston, 1927.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Description: With a Prefatory Letter by W B Yeats. 248 x 188mm, greyish blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover lettered & blocked with vignette design in gilt, pp.[xii] 44, 12 full-page coloured plates, including frontispiece, with captioned guards. Head of spine chipped, trace of adhesive at foot of spine & covers, inscription on front free endpaper.
Seller: Cameron House Books, Freshwater Bay, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blakes beautiful, inspiring Poems for Children, beautifully illustrated with 12 Full-Page Colour Plates and many B&W illustrations by Jacynth Parsons. Prefatory Letter by W. B. Yeats. Poems include "The Lamb"; The Little Black Boy; Little Boy Lost/ Little Boy Found, and A Cradle Song. Blue cloth cover with Gilt Lettering and Small Gilt Vignette of Trees on front. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine a bit tanned. Some wear at spine ends. Slight soiling to cover. Pages in very good, clean condition, Colours bright.
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second impression 1927. Vg broad hardback copy in buckram. Slight tanning to prelims with small pen inscription. LISTING PHOTO DOES NOT NECESSARILY MATCH THIS COPY.
Seller: St Paul's Bookshop P.B.F.A., Peterborough, United Kingdom
Blake William - Parsons Jacynth. Songs of innocence.. The Medici Society, London and Boston, 1927.
Price: US$43.85 + shipping
Description: In 8°; piena tela edit. con tit. impresso in oro al piatto e al dorso (lievi abrasioni); pp. XI-(1)-42-(2); con numerose illustrazioni in nero n.t. e 12 tavv. a colori f.t. protette da veline con legenda, il tutto opera di J. Parsons; with a prefatory letter by W.B. Yeats. Edizione originale. Una dedica per il Natale del 1927 manoscritta alla carta di guardia, in esemplare molto ben conservato.
Seller: Pietro Panizzi Libraio, Giulianova, Italy
Blake, William. Songs of Innocence. The Medici Society, London, 1927.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reprint in very good condition. Twelve colour plates. Some very light, scattered foxing. Page protecting colour frontispiece has a 10cm closed tear. All else very firm. Blue cloth boards with gilt. Minor edge wear
Seller: HAUNTED BOOKSHOP P.B.F.A., CAMBRIDGE, CAMBS, United Kingdom
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Very good in 3/4 blue leather with patterned boards. First edition, second impression. Gilt lettering on red lalbes on spine. Patterened end papers. Minor foxing thoughout, but not effecting the wonderful color illustrations. Some wear to corners and edges. The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty., the binding is solid. We provide fast and reliable shipping service. Satisfaction guaranteed
Seller: Valley Books, Cupertino, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.22 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 43 p., 11 p. of plates: ill.; 25 cm. Subjects: English poetry. English Poetry 20th century. Other names: Parsons, Jacynth 1911-1992 [illustrator]. Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865-1939 [contributor]. Genre:Illustrated. Poetry. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 43 p., 11 p. of plates: ill.; 25 cm. Subjects: English poetry. English Poetry 20th century. Other names: Parsons, Jacynth 1911-1992 [illustrator]. Yeats, W. B. (William Butler) 1865-1939 [contributor]. Genre:Illustrated. Poetry. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Blake, William. Songs of Innocence. Medici Society, London, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small 4to, full blue cloth. Illustrated with 12 charming tissue-guarded color plates and numerous line drawings by the 16-year-old Jacynth Parsons with a prefatory letter by William Butler Yeats extolling her artwork. The year this book was published the Medici Society put on a well-received exhibition of her "pictures from the age of 3 to 16." Slightly cocked, else fine, no previous owner's marks.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: With a Prefatory Letter by W. B. Yeats. xi, 42 []2] pp. Illustrated in color and black and white by Jacynth Parsons. Small 4to, later old 3/4 green calf, decorated paper-covered boards; all-over gilt spine, t.e.g. by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Second impression. Tiny areas of rubbing along the joints; spine uniformly faded to tan; small areas of the green leather unevenly faded. Contents fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
BLAKE, William.. Songs of Innocence.. Medici Society,, London and Boston:, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Preface by William Butler Yeats. Illustrations include twelve color plates (all well preserved) with tissue guards. First edition. Age darkened along the spine, else very good in blue cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. ; 43 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.