Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 129 p. 27 cm. 17 tipped-in colour plates. Green cloth with gold impressing. Some wear to extremities. Tiny label front free endpaper and small tear in page edge. Some tears to inner margins of front endpaper, half title, rear of frontispiece.
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM & WOODROFF, PAUL (Illus) & MO. The Tempest. Chapman & Hall Ltd 1908, 1908.
Price: US$49.38 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, imperial octavo, red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board and gilt design to front board, illus eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, iii + 130pp, illus with 16 full-page colour plates, VG (heavy fading to spine, rubbing & brusing to spine extrems, fading/soiling to board edges & corners, small chip to lower edge of fep, heavy foxing to title page & eps, some foxing throughout, owner's name & date in ink to title page)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Shakespeare William. The Tempest. Chapman and Hall, 1908.
Price: US$51.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated with 19 of the 20 mounted colour plates which are listed. With songs by Joseph Moorat. Original green cloth with Art Nouveau design by Woodroffe. Additional gilt design to the spine. Decorated endpapers. There is wear to the corners and a slight nick to the head of the spine. The half title is heavily spotted and there is some spotting throughout but the plates are in a very good state. There is no plate at page 78 as listed. An interesting edition of the classic play. All books outside the UK are sent airmail and those over £30 are tracked; those inside the UK are signed for. Paypal accepted.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Shakespeare William. The Tempest. Chapman & Hall Ltd., London, 1908.
Price: US$61.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cover: bound in original green cloth on boards with gilt titles and gilt decorative designs. Cluster of small rubbed spots to front & rear bottom boards fore corner area. Soft sunning to spine and briefly to front & rearside spine margin. Gilt head edge moderately rubbed. Light browning and foxing to edges. Green eps with penciled initials to fep. Small name and 3.V.'13 to head fep. Sprinkling of foxing to a few pages albeit mostly to the margins. 20 tipped in colour plates (includes 3 double page). Binding is VG. 130p 270 mm.
Seller: BOOKMARK, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$63.68 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good copy of this wonderfully illustrated edition of The Tempest--with all illustrations by Paul Woodroffe present and protected by tissue guards--top edge gilt with torn out portion at top of front fly leaf and some bubbling of front cover. See attached picture!
Seller: Blue Heaven Books, Grand Marais, MB, Canada
Price: US$64.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus. Hardback. Original red cloth with some slight wear and damp marking, endpapers attached to pastedowns, otherwise near very good indeed with 20 tipped-in colour plates.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$67.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth
Seller: Parrot Books, Hemel Hempstead, HERT, United Kingdom
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Teal cloth cover with gilt decor is soiled with frayed corners and spine caps but in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are toned but clean and very good. Complete with 20 tissue guarded tipped-in color plates. ; 0 pages
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$128.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine tail and front lower corner is bumped. Just a bit of rubbing to spine head and top corners. Front hinge is cracked. Surface scratching across rear board; front board and spine clean. Spine gilt is just a bit dull; that on front board bright. Pages are lightly age-toned. Tipped in illustrations all present, clean; colors are bright. ; Color Illustrations; TFH19B; 10.5" x 7.75"; 130 pages
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Woodroffe, Paul (Illus); Shakespeare, William (Auth). Tempest, The. Chapman & Hall, London, 1908.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 130 pgs. Green cloth, pictorially gilt-stamped cover and spine, mild oxidation to gilt, bookplate to endpaper, occasional foxing and binding mildly shaken. 17 beautiful tipped-in color plates, guarded by captioned tissue. Including 3 double page plates. Decorative endpapers. Size: 4to
Seller: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Description: 129,1p., 20 col. plates. Very good condition, in gilt stamped green cloth, some foxing of endpapers, hinges lightly rubbed, small spot on rear cover
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Chapman & Hall, London, 1908.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to, full green cloth with gilt titling designs of porpoises on the cover and sea horses on the spine, TEG, illustrated with 17 mounted and tissue guarded color plates by Paul Woodroffe. Faint tape residue on endpapers, wear to top of spine and lightly bumped corners, else near fine.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Chapman & Hall, London, 1908.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to, full red cloth with gilt titling designs of porpoises on the cover and sea horses on the spine, TEG, illustrated endpapersillustrated with 17 mounted and tissue guarded color plates by Paul Woodroffe with 3 sets of facing-page plates, mounted on dark green card stock. Music for Ariel's songs by Joseph Moorat with full notation. Light bumping to corners, front interior hinge beginning to split else very good indeed without previous owner's marks.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$324.89 + shipping
Description: Tipped-in colour illustrations by Paul Woodroffe. Very Good (-), without dust jacket. Slight wear and marks to cover commensurate with age. Charming gilt decoration to cover and spine. All plates present. Owner's name to FFEP.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Binding is very nice -- tight and free of chips or split, solidly near fine. Full green cloth with gilt titling designs of porpoises on the cover and sea horses on the spine, TEG, illustrated with 17 mounted and tissue guarded color plates by Paul Woodroffe. Some spotting to the title page only, contents otherwise free of foxing or markings. Nice book.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Full original gilt-stamped green cloth boards. Upper with title and pictorial design of dolphins and marine motifs, spine in similar design. Green and white pictorial pasted and free endpapers. Top edges gilt, front and bottom uncut. , Size : Quarto (265 x 190 mm), A very good example. ?Presentation copy? embossed on fore margin of early leaves. With 20 illustrations, including frontispiece, tipped in on thicker black cardstock, with captioned tissue guards. Including sheet music arranged by Moorat for vocals and piano. Slight rubbing to extremities, light toning, interior otherwise clean and crisp.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada