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Walter De La Mare. Stories From The Bible. Faber & Gwyer,limited, 1929.

Price: US$30.57 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1929. 397 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth and gilt lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Strong tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket. Jacket has heavy edge-wear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Loss to jacket's spine head.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

De La Mare, Walter:. Stories From the Bible.. London: Faber & Gwyer Ltd, 1929., 1929.

Price: US$38.98 + shipping

Description: First edition. xiv, 397 pp. Nine stories from the Bible - the Garden of Eden, the Flood, Joseph, Moses and Pharaoh, the fall of Jerico, Samson, Samuel, Saul and the early years of David intended for older children. In this book De La Mare hopes to persuade his readers to return to the narratives of the Old Testament which contain many valuable lesssons on human qualities. Text clean throughout. Illustrated eps. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Boards patchily faded. Overall condition VG. In VG illustrated dust wrapper.

Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland

Walter de la Mare. Stories from the Bible [Signed, Limited Ed.] - Walter de la Mare. Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1929.

Price: US$59.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Signed by Walter de la Mare. Limited, numbered edition. Clean, unmarked, tightly bound. An owner's bookplate inside. Exterior lightly worn, but is soiled along spine and sunned at top. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.)

Seller: Big Star Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.

De La Mare, Walter (SIGNED). Stories from the Bible. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1929.

Price: US$59.50 + shipping

Description: spine slightly darkened with a light stain on the spine

Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.

de la Mare, Walter. Stories from the Bible. Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: DJ chipped and tanned with minor loss to spine ends. Cloth mottled, foxed, and faded with imprint from DJ on spine. Content clean and tidy. Size: 8vo

Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom

De La Mare, Walter. STORIES FROM THE BIBLE. Faber & Gwyer, 1929.

Price: US$65.49 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st 1929. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 397 pages. Pictorial endpapers. Spine bumped with some fading. Light foxing to textblock and prelims else contents clean. Price-cut wrapper is slightly edge creased, small tear to lower edge of rear panel has been repaired on verso. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom

Wheen, A. W.. TWO MASTERS. Faber & Faber, London, 1929.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, 32 pp., boards. First edition. Limited to 150 numbered copies (this is number 28) signed by Wheen. The first book in Faber & Faber's "Criterion Miscellany" series, a story set among the Australian Expeditionary Force in World War I. Small chip from spine panel and some mild dust soiling to the bright orange boards, a very good copy. (#134248)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

De La Mare, Walter. Stories from the Bible. Published by Faber & Gwyer, London, 1929.

Price: US$84.47 + shipping

Description: , xiv, 397 pages, SIGNED by author on verso to title page, printed on English hand-made paper Limited Edition of 300 copies, this being No. 108 , corners lightly rubbed, few small marks to covers, a little foxing to pastedowns, binding tight, internally clean, book in very good condition , quarter vellum with brown cloth boards, gilt floral design to front, gilt titles to spine, gilt top edge 24.5 x 16 cm Hardback SIGNED by author ISBN:

Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom

de la Mare, Walter. STORIES FROM THE BIBLE. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1929.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Description: Collects nine stories. Publisher's postal card laid in. Bound in original blue cloth with lettering and illustration stamped in gilt. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with a few tiny tears.

Seller: Robert Gavora, Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Talent, OR, U.S.A.

Vanamee, Mary Conger. VANAMEE. Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1929.

Price: US$95.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 313 pages, Very good hardcover First edition. Spine is sunned. Nice tightly bound copy. biography of an American Episcopalian clergyman who resigned to serve as a combatant in France, first with the British (28th Division) then with the American Expeditionary Force (machine gun officer, 23rd Infantry, 1st Division). He died of wounds from German shellfire, September 1918. The book was written by his widow in 1928, based on letters etc, and edited for private publication after her death.

Seller: Stan Clark Military Books, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.

[BIBLE]. DE LA MARE, Walter.. Stories from the Bible.. Faber & Gwyer Limited, [1929]., London:, 1929.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Tall 8vo. xiv, [2], 397, [1] pp. Woodcut decoration on title. Quarter-vellum over burgundy-coloured cloth, gilt decoration on front cover, gilt lettering on spine, t.e.g (minor spotting to spine, slight sunning to upper front cover), VG copy, signed & numbered on verso of half-title. First edition, signed & numbered 221 of 300 copies printed, of this adaptation of the first nine books of the Bible from Genesis to David slaying Goliath by the noted author and poet. De La Mare states in his introduction that the very simplicity and austerity of the Old Testament stories, and their English translators can lead to misunderstandings. Striving to communicate the meaning of the text to children, he creates scenes that add emotional texture to the stories. This volume was printed on handmade laid paper by Butler & Tanner, Ltd. See; Russell Dalton, Children's Bibles in America: A Reception History of the Story of Noah's Ark, pp. 39-42.

Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.

De La Mare, Walter. STORIES FROM THE BIBLE. Faber & Gwyer, 1929.

Price: US$106.44 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1st 1929. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Vellum spine with gilt title. Gilt decoration to front cover; brown/red cloth. Limited edition to 300 copies printed on English hand-made paper. SIGNED by author to verso of half-title page. This is Copy No. 192. Many pages are uncut - others are a bit jagged where they have been 'cut'. Some scuff marks, spotting and fading to covers. Foxing and browning to outer page edges; some margin marks. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom

De La Mare, Walter. Stories from the Bible. Limited Edition Signed By the Author.. Faber & Gwyer Limited, London, 1929.

Price: US$123.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: From the Library of Sir John Mills and Mary Mills. Number 137 of a Limited Edition of 300 copies printed on handmade paper and numbered and signed by Walter De La Mare. Size 9½" x 6" 397 pages. Aubergine cloth covered boards with gilt floral emblem on the front cover. Cream spine section with gilt titles to the spine. Top page edge gilt, other page edges untrimmed. Condition very good, cover and spine are grubby, corners rubbed, internal contents clean. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom

de la Mare, Walter. Stories from the Bible. Faber & Gwyer, UK, 1929.

Price: US$129.95 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: One of a limited edition of 300 numbered copies - this is copy number 91 - SIGNED by the author. Quarter bound - vellum spine over brown cloth boards. Gilt design to front board. A Near Fine + copy - sharp, bright and clean. No inscriptions, tightly bound. Boards fresh, vellum bright. Internally very fresh - no foxing or spotting. Hint of bruising to the spine ends. SIGNED to the limitation page by Walter de la Mare. A handsome copy. PayPal accepted.

Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Walter De La Mare. Stories From the Bible. Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1929.

Price: US$179.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Faber & Gwyer Limited, 1929.Limited. First Edition. Three Hundred numbered copies. This is No. 34 and is signed by the author on back of half-title page. Hard Cover. Cover has moderate shelfwear. Spine is moderately soiled. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Printed on English hand-made paper with rough cut edges. Some mild toning on endpapers. Very nice copy.

Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.

de la Mare, Walter. Stories From the Bible. Faber & Gwyer Ltd, London, 1929.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Signed by Walter de la Mare. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies, this is number 34. Printed on English handmade paper with rough cut edges. Quarter vellum with aubergine cloth boards. Gilt design on front cover and gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Very good condition with subtle fading at top of front board. Light soiling to spine and some chipping to page 75. Bookplate residue on front pastedown. Binding is tight and text is clean. Very good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

Seller: Top Edge Gilt, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.