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Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth binding with gilt lettering bumped & rubbed at extremities; small dent to backstrip; binding cracked at page 103; bookplate on front paste-down; owner's name on front endpaper; a few leaves nicked at fore-edges; leaf edges, endpapers lightly foxed, else a nice, clean copy, with bright ils. No dj. ; Delightful b&w ils. & six color plates by Arthur Rackham; preface by Edmund Gosse. ; 4to; 132 pages
Seller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Springtide of Life. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1918.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 132 pp, plus eight full color plates of Arthur Rackham, each protected with a captioned tissue guard. Cloth covers show a few light scuffs, and some rubbing on edges. Hinges (internal) are loosened. Light foxing on end leaves, with just a few slight spots elsewhere.
Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.
Algernon Charles Swinburne. The Springtide of Life. J. B. Lippincott Co., U S. A., 1918.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 133pp Probable first edition (no ther printings listed) All plates arre present plus nice illustrations on lots of the pages Color Rackham plates Previous owner's inscription on front facing page Base of the spine and outside corners of cover are lightly rubbed and very small tear at base of spine, otherwise book is Fine
Seller: First Choice Books, coeurd'Alene, ID, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott; London: William Heinemann, 1918. First trade edition, American issue. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, 133 pp., illustrated by Arthur Rackham, eight inserted color plates. Edited with a preface by Edmund Gosse. "The face and the voice of a child are assurance of heaven and its promise forever." Contemporary Christmas gift inscription. Light rubbing at tips and spine ends. Small bits of lost sizing along the bottom edges. A Very Good copy.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small quarto. 132pp Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Pictorial endpapers. Eight full page color illustrations by Arthur Rackham Rubbing at top and bottom of spine and some edge wear at bottom.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10") in publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated with 8 full-page color plates by Arthur Rackham, all with captioned tissue guards, as well as a number of black-and-white drawings in the text. Small calling card with gift inscription pasted to the front endpaper. Near Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: a near fine copy in the original green cloth, of the 1st American with the London sheets, with the date on the title page. with all color plates collated. and near fine condition. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott; London: William Heinemann, 1918, 1918. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott; London: William Heinemann, 1918. First trade edition, American issue. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, 133 pp., illustrated by Arthur Rackham, eight inserted color plates. Edited with a preface by Edmund Gosse. "The face and the voice of a child are assurance of heaven and its promise forever.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Swinburne, Algernon Charles. The Springtide Of Life. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1918.
Price: US$144.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated with eight (complete) color plates by Arthur Rackham. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the front and spine. Wear at corners, head and heel of spine and extremeties, binding is weak but intact, otherwise good. Seventh plate is worn at front edge not effecting image, otherwise plates are fine.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$521.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Buckram boards with title in gilt and a cherub in gilt on front board. Title in gilt on spine with illus. in gilt of a phoenix (?). Illus. endpapers, deckle-edge quality paper pages. Nine tipped-in tissue-protected illustrations including frontispiece by Arthur Rackham. Two illus. with creases at corners. SIGNED by Arthur Rackham. Limited edition, No 683 of 765. 134pp. Boards a little discoloured, and edges and corners rubbed. Two small punctures at spine, light scratches to front board, else very good copy.
Seller: The Known World Bookshop, Ballarat, VIC, Australia
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated at title page: MCMXVIII (1918); and verso title page: "Printed in Great Britain." Large 7 3/4" x 10" gift book design. Sharp dark green full cloth boards, stylized cover and spine titles, light shelf, corner wear. Pages generally near fine, sharp; no writing Apprx. 1/2" discoloration to top edge throughout; mostly noticeable to plates in white surrounding borders. Pictorial endpapers features light green Rackham imagery of babe below rose vine; moderate fox inside back cover. Bind fine, square; hinges intact. Beautifully illustrated with eight tipped-in color plates. Also, various black-and-white vignettes, ornamentation by Arthur Rackham throughout. Each with captioned tissue guards. Additionally features fifty-two drawings by Rackham in black and white. Also, a preface by Edmund Gosse describing the match of Swinburne's poetry with Rackham's designs. Attractive near very good example. Rare original beige pictorial wrapper, moderate edge wear, chip, rub, discoloration; 3.00 net at spine, protected in new clear sleeve. Features stylized red and green cover and spine titles with charming vignette of little one among butterflies. Back panel features summary review adverts for A. R. gift editions, The Allies' Fairy Book by the New York Times, and A Christmas Carol by the Boston Transcript. Near very good first edition in same wrapper. Algeron Charles Swinburne is noted as founder and promoter of English literary symbolism, his many works of literature and poetry, and his brilliant essay on William Blake, without which Blake would never have become an ideal for a whole school of poets and writers. From wrapper: "Swinburne frequently expressed his intention to gather in one volume his poems of child life. He died without having found occasion to do this. Edmund Gosse has carried out the poet's plan, and Arthur Rackham, whose dlecate and romantic fancy is in sensitvie harmony with Swinburne's, and who understands no less than he did, how 'the face and the voice of a child are assurance of heaven,' has given exquisite interpretation to these flowers of the poet's imagination. Overs of the beautiful in poetry will find this volume a rare addition to their treasures." Printed at The Complete Press, West Norwood, London. 133 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: The BiblioFile, Rapid River, MI, U.S.A.