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J M Barrie. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Chapter Two (Chesham), Chesham, United Kingdom
J. M. Barrie. THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This copy is in near fine condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine angilt decoration to the upper board by the artist. This copy is bright, tight, white and square There is an attractive book plate to the front paste down. There are sixteen tipped in colour illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A dustwrapper is not present, there is a clear, acetate, wraparound. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The Admirable Crichton is a comic stage play written in 1902 by J. M. Barrie. Barrie took the title from the sobriquet of a fellow Scot, the polymath James Crichton, a 16th-century genius and athlete. The epigram-loving Ernest is probably a caricature of the title character in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The plot may derive from Robinson's Eiland, an 1896 German play by Ludwig Fulda. In this, "a satire upon modern super-cultur in its relation to primal nature", a group of Berlin officials (including a capitalist, a professor and a journalist) are shipwrecked on an island, where a secretary, Arnold, becomes the natural leader of the group. The contemporary critic Arthur Bingham Walkley, however, viewed the connection as merely a rumour: "I feel quite indifferent as to its accuracy of fact. LLL 4 Size: 236pp
Seller: Amazing Book Company, Liphook, United Kingdom
Barrie, J. M.. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton 1914, 1914.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by Hugh Thomson with 21 tipped-in color plates, printed tissue guards. Covers lightly soiled with foot of spine end bumped and corners just showing. Expedited and international shipping will incur additional charges; please inquire. Drama VG
Seller: Book 'Em, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Barrie, J. M.. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good, in a red cloth cover with ornate gilt decorations. The edges of the cover are worn, particularly the spine ends. Internally very good, with some minor foxing. Clean and tight copy, with mounted color illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
BARRIE, J. M.. The admirable Crichton. Hodder and Stoughton, 1914.
Price: US$54.55 + shipping
Description: 1914. With 20 tipped-in colour plates by Hugh Thomas; illustrations checked and all present. Light scattered foxing; endpapers browned. Red cloth decorated in gilt. Spine faded and browned with small losses near spine head over a few letters of the title. Damp stain on upper rear board and some small patches of colour loss on boards. Binding tight. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
J.M. Barrie; Hugh Thomson [illus.]. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1914]. First Trade Edition. Quarto; publisher's decorative maroon cloth elaborately stamped in gilt; [2],vi,[2],234pp.; adorned with tipped in color frontispiece with printed tissue-guard and nineteen (19) leaves of plates, collated and complete. Cloth rather scuffed at extremities with a few small punctures to front cover, shallow dent to bottom edge of boards and textblock, spine a shade faded and slightly cocked, endpapers toned; overall a Good to Very Good copy. Hand flyer laid in advertising the sale of Hugh Thomson's watercolors for The Admirable Crichton and Quality Street, obtainable from Messrs. Ernest Brown & Phillips.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
BARRIE, J M. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Undated (1914). Red decorated cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front. Boards are generally in good order, just a little shelfwear. Slight bumping to corners. Spine is slightly faded with mild bumping to ends. Age discolouration to endpages. Small amount of fox to early/late pages. 20 Hugh Thomson tipped in colour plates with captioned and decorated guards and numerous other line drawn illustrations. All illustrations present and undamaged. 234 pp. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 1827g. Postage within the UK remains at £3. For international orders ABE use an estimate based on a 1kg book. Where a book is lighter/heavier, we will reduce/request additional postage accordingly. We make no profit on postal charges. We expect a parcel of this weight to cost between £15.50 (Europe) and £31.85 (USA) to ship using Royal Mail's International Tracked Service. All our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 030625:6e) Size: 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall 1827 G
Seller: YattonBookShop PBFA, Bristol, United Kingdom
Barrie, J.M.. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$93.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 234 pages. Red boards; the front one with gilt decoration and print. The back board is rubbed, the spine stripped lightly torn at the head; the front hinge has a short tear towards the head, the one facing the half title page cracked, though the binding remains sold; there are two ownership signatures on the front end paper, one dated 1917, and there is intermittent foxing throughout the book. For all its faults, it is an attractive copy. 20 coloured plates with their protective guard sheet and numerous black and white sketches. No publishing date offered, 1914 is taken from trove. Overseas customers please note the book is very heavy and will attract additional postage.
Seller: Good Reading Secondhand Books, Benalla, VIC, Australia
BARRIE, J. M.. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Frontispiece and 19 other mounted color plates, 21 in-text figures by Hugh Thomson. 235pp. Short thick 4to, original highly decorative gilt pictorial cover; neatly re-backed in similar cloth with spine title preserved; inner hinge repaired; contemporary gift inscription otherwise clean. London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]. First edition. A very good(-) copy. Houfe 479.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BARRIE J.M., THOMSON Hugh. THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON. Hodder & Stoughton, 1914, 1914.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Description: Limited edition de luxe (52 of 500) signed by illustrator. 4to. Original elaborately gilt decorated white vellum, top edge gilt (boards a little discoloured and upper board bowed; lacks silk ties - otherwise VG). Pp. vi + 234, illus with 20 tipped-in coloured plates with captioned tissue-guards and in text by Hugh Thomson (endpapers tanned and some spotting to fore-edge; no inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Barrie, J. M.. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st thus, no date, circa 1914. Large Quarto. vi, [2] 234 [1]pp. Complete with the tissue-guarded colour plates by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's red cloth, elaborate gilt decoration. Spine slightly dulled with light rubbing to head and tail. Small number '6' in ink to top right corner of f.f.e.p. Minor spotting and off-setting to end papers. Occasional light spotting internally, but generally contents in very good order. Overall a 'Very Good' copy. Heavy - additional shipping required.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Elaborate gilt-tooled & decorated red cloth boards with all 20 tipped-in color plates with captioned tissue guards present & perfect, only slight shelf & edge wear with the very beginnings of fraying to spine top, page block edges show a little quiet soil & staining, binding & hinges tight pages bright & unfoxed, neat name to pastedown edge, no other markings, a clean tight near-exemplary copy with all the wonderful Hugh Tomson illustrations; 4to; (viii) 235pp illus. Extra shipping charge REQUIRED for shipment of this heavy oversize book (additional charge WILL BE SUBSTANTIAL for expedited or overseas shipment)
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
BARRIE, J. M.. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece and 19 other mounted color plates, 21 in-text figures by Hugh Thomson. 235pp. Short thick 4to, original highly decorative gilt pictorial red cloth (front cover bright; spine a bit faded and rear cover spotted). London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1914]. First edition. Overall a very good copy. Houfe 479.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Thick 4to. vi, [2], 234 pp. printed on thick paper. Elaborately decorated title. Tipped-in colour frontisp., 21 tipped-in colour plates. Red cloth, elaborately gilt decorated front cover, gilt lettering & decoration on spine (minor edgewear, some rubbing at corners, scuffing to endpapers), still VG- copy. First edition with Hugh Thomson illustrations of Barrie's comedic and satirical work dealing with the class issues of the period.
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
(Thomson, Hugh) Barrie, J.M.. The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. With 21 mounted color plates by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. Sm 4to. An attractive copy of Barrie's classic play, with Thomson's inimitable illustrations. Original red cloth, with Thomson's elaborate gilt-stamped design on upper cover, spine slightly faded and chipped at head, endpapers cracked, else fine With 21 mounted color plates by Hugh Thomson. 1 vols. Sm 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
J.M. Barrie & Hugh Thomson (illustrator). The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. Very good condition. Measures approximately 8.5 x 10.75 inches. 20 full-color tipped-in illustrations and numerous black and white drawings by Hugh Thomson. Boards and spine are in good to very good condition. Interior is in very good condition. Boards are covered in crimson linen with intricate gold illustrations and lettering on the front. Spine has gold lettering but it is faded. Board corners are gently rubbed with just a trace of exposure on one corner. Spine has toning, fraying, and some loss on the ends. Spine is intact; no splitting on the hinges. A few small foxing spots here and there, but otherwise pages are clean. No writing inside. All illustrations are attached and are crisp and clean. All plate guards are present. No funky odors. "The Admirable Crichton is a satirical comedy dealing with class and social structure, about a butler who rises to become the leader of his aristocratic employers after they are all stranded on a deserted island."
Seller: Bookworm and Apple, Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. Quarto (27 x 21cm), with twenty mounted colour plates and captioned tissues. Publisher's pale green cloth blocked in dark green and red to upper, gilt to spine. Contents are a little foxed, binding lightly handled, one neat/accidental pull to crown. A very good copy. One of two trade bindings issued- the other being red cloth blocked in gilt.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: FIRST THUS. Quarto, pp. half-title, vi, [2], 234, [2]. 20 colour tipped-in plates by Hugh Thomson, plate leaves with illustrated borders and captioned pictorial tissue guards. Decorative red cloth with gilt titles, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board. Spine lightly sunned. Free endpapers toned as usual; a little scattered foxing mainly to text-block edge. No annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. An excellent example of the handsome illustrated edition, with Thomson's distinctive exquisite plates. Heavyweight, so a contribution towards increased postage costs will be requested for overseas delivery.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$159.80 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, elaborately gilt-decorated cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 234 pages; Physical desc. : 234 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 18 cm. Subject: Drama: plays: English literature. Decorated title page. Frontispiece and plates mounted; each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
J.M. Barrie. The Admiral Crichton. Hodder and Stoughton, 1914.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The basis for the 1957 movie of the same name, this is a lovely showy version of Barrries work with wonderful, unusual color plates by Hugh Thomson. Thomson usually worked in black and white but did work in watercolors at times. These are tipped in on heavy paper, twenty color plates in all with black and white line drawings as little vignettes on the overlays. Inside the front on the free endpaper is written the name of a previous owner (Lydia Mitchell LaBoiteaux). Ms. LaBoiteaux was a member of an old Philadelphia family and a member of the Colonial Dames of America. There is some slight yellowing to the paper from age and handling: otherwise, a very pretty gift book. Wonderful illustrations, great heavy paper and wonderful Condition and provenance. NVery Good Condition: 4to: red boards with heavy gilt decorations (which makes the front look darker than the spine and sides which are closer to apple red): gilt decorations on spine with lettering above and shelf below with publishers name at tail: slightest beginning of a crack at bottom front hinge: white spot on rear: crack inside gutter at rear from bottom up: slightest of yellowing around the edges: illustrated by Hugh Thomson: The Admirable Crichton: J M Barrie: London: Hodder and Stoughton: 1914.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$176.33 + shipping
Description: no year (1914). 2 p.l,vi, [2] , 234, [2] pp, col. front, Illustrated cloth, 27,5 x 21 cm. Frontispiece and plates mounted; each plate (20 , as stated) accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress.Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.OCLC: 1472738.Hugh Thomson made his name illustrating books for literary giants Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.He was born in Coleraine in Northern Irland. A fine copy.
Seller: Meiwes, Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$184.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, elaborately gilt-decorated cloth. Professionally recased with the original spine laid back; very impressively finished. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 234 pages; Physical desc. : 234 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 18 cm. Subject: Drama: plays: English literature. Decorated title page. Frontispiece and plates mounted; each plate accompanied by guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Thick quarto; crimson cloth, with titling and elaborative decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; viii, 236pp; illus. + 20 hand-tipped color plates. Some trivial wear to board edges, offsetting to endpapers, with old, shallow dampstain to right edge of text; Very Good+. Basis for Lewis Gilbert's 1957 British comedy film of the same name, starring Kenneth More, Diane Cilento, Cecil parker and Sally Ann Howes.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [1914]. First Thus, Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 44. Folio; publisher's pictorial vellum elaborately embossed in gilt and green, fore-edge ribbon ties present, top edge gilt, housed in custom brown cloth chemise and slipcase; vi,[2],234pp.; tipped in color frontispiece with printed tissue guards, nineteen (19) leaves of plates (collated and complete), additional half-tone text illus. throughout. Very minor flaking to front cover's green ruling, boards a touch bowed, else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. Signed by the illustrator on colophon.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Barrie, J.M.. THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON. Hodder & Stoughton, 1914.
Price: US$502.27 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st thus 1914. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Limited edition of 500 SIGNED by Hugh Thomson. White vellum, heavily decorated with gilt. 20 beautiful tipped-in colour plates. Top edges gilt. 235pp. 12.5 x 10". A very handsome book. SIGNED by Thomson. This is copy no. 148. Bumping to spine and corners. Covers are grubby and rear cover has a couple of marks. Creasing to front endpaper and prelims including mount and tissue guard for frontis but plate itself is not affected. Browning to endpapers. Some light page browning. Light foxing mostly to prelims and page edges and some fingering. One page and last tissue guard creased. Plates all present and in very good condition. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Barrie, J.M. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). The Admirable Crichton. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Edition de Luxe. Limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy being 94), signed by the artist. Original vellum over boards. Front cover pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt within a double gilt rule and a triple green rule border. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Silk ties missing and vellum a bit dust soiled. Large quarto (12 1/8 x 10 inches; 309 x 253 mm.). Collating [2, limitation leaf], vi, [2], 234, [2] with twenty mounted color plates (including frontispiece), with descriptive tissue guards. Black and white text illustrations. Color plate and mount opposite page 36 with vertical marginal crease. A Near Fine copy housed in a gray cloth slipcase. Laid in is the Leicester Galleries exhibition notice for the original drawings for this book.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
J M BARRIE. THE Admirable Chrichton. Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$566.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BARRIE, J.M. The Admirable Crichton. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson & signed by him, not dated but 1914. This de luxe edition limited to 500 numbered copies (this copy is No. 151), signed by the artist. Large quarto (12 1/8 x 10 inches; 309 x 253 mm.) 234, [2] pp. Twenty mounted color plates including frontispiece, with titled and sketches on tissue guards. Black and white text illustrations. Original vellum on board. Front cover pictorially stamped and lettered profusely in gilt within a double gilt rule and a triple blue ruled borders. Spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt, yapped page edges, silk ties missing as is often the case. Watercolour artist & illustrator. HUGH THOMSON 1860-1920. Born at Coleraine, Co Derry, Ireland, came to prominence with his series of drawings of 18thc ballads & stories, most prolific 1900-1914 when his watercolour work was put to good use in the lavish colour gift books illustrating the classics.
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Barrie, J.M.. The admirable Crichton.Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: Edition de luxe limited to 500 copies signed by Thomson (this, no. 117); large 4to, pp. 234, [1]; mounted color frontispiece and 19 plates, additional black & white text illustrations throughout; original full vellum, upper cover ruled in gilt and green with elaborate gilt-tooling within lines, gilt spine, t.e.g., all other edges uncut, yellow ribbon ties; vellum a bit darkened, else a fine copy, the elusive ribbon ties in equally fine condition.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.