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[CRANE, Walter] KONODY, P. G.. The Art of Walter Crane.. George Bell & Sons, London, 1902.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 146 pp. Illustrated. Folio, publisher's pale blue gilt pictorial cloth; t.e.g. First edition. Some foxing to the first few leaves at beginning and end; rear (inner) hinge split and front (inner) hinge reinforced with adhesive. Cloth a bit soiled and bumped at corners; spine tanned and frayed at extremities. There is a tipped-in printed statement from Walter Crane, acknowledging his assistance in this publication and the design of its cover, "But am in no way responsible for the arrangement of the book, and neither sanction nor approval of its contents is implied on my part."
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
P.G. KONODY. The Art of Walter Crane. London. George Bell & Sons. 1902, 1902.
Price: US$308.51 + shipping
Description: folio, 36(13.5") x 24cm, the first edition, xiii,[1],147,[1]p., with 8 photogravure plates, 24 colour plates & 26 monochrome plates, numerous text illustrations, two facsimile leaves, title printed in red and black, in the original light blue cloth elaborately gilt decorations, titles and illustrations on the covers, gilt titles and illustrations on the spine, top edge gilt, the other edges uncut, decorative endpapers in green and white, binding slightly dust worn (stamping clear), armorial engraved bookplate over private library bookplate, faded circular internal small library stamp (withdrawn), still a very good attractively copy (Igc).
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
P.G. Konody. The Art of Walter Crane. George Bell & Sons, 1902.
Price: US$416.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition.
Seller: Parrot Books, Hemel Hempstead, HERT, United Kingdom
Konody, P. G.. The Art of Walter Crane. George Bell & Sons, London, 1902.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Folio. xiii + 148 pp., and numerous plates, many in color, of Crane's wondrous oeuvre. This includes not just book and children's book illustration for which he is very much still celebrated, but also wallpaper design, other decorative arts designs, and traditional graphic arts such as paintings. Without a doubt the greatest study of Crane's work to this day, and also the best anthology of his work in a single volume. Front hinge broken. Considerable amount of soilage to blue decorated cloth boards and spine. Fraying of threads along joints. Rear joint has minor starting at top. Still, gilt decoratiion of Greek goddesses and crane on front, crane and pallettes on back reasonably bright. Some minor occasional soilage to text pages, but overall, interior clean, making this a good copy overall, with an exterior that is fair.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, original decorative blue cloth, t.e.g., decorative endpapers. Photogravure frontis., [xiv], [148] pp., 24 chromolithographic plates, and over 100 additional plates and illustrations. An exceptionally handsome monograph on the work of British illustrator Walter Crane, and still the most authoritative work on the artist. Richly illustrated with chromolithographs, two tipped-in facsimile leaves from the Kelmscott Press edition of The Story of the Glittering Plain, and examples of Crane's paintings, book illustrations, wallpaper designs, and a variety of decorative work. A characteristically fine production of the Chiswick Press. CONDITION: Very good, moderately worn, lightly soiled; a tight, attractive copy.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Konody, P. G.. The Art of Walter Crane. George Bell & Sons at Cheswick Press, London, 1902.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 35 x 24.5 cm. Folio. xiii [1] 148pp. Bound into blue decorative cloth. Extensively illustrated with full page plates including 8 photogravure plates, 16 color plates, 22 reproductions from paintings, 10 wall-paper designs, 14 book illustrations, 11 decorative works and studies as well as many other in-text illustrations. Some minor rubbing to edges of covers. Previous owner's gft inscription on second front endpaper. Bottom corners are bumped. Sections include: "Art and Socialism", "The Making of the Artist", "Art for the Nursery", "Book Illustrations", "Walter Crane the Painter", "Theory and Practice", "Walter Crane the Craftsman", "The Harvest of Honours", "List of Exhibited Pictures", "List of Books illustrated or Written by Crane. Authoratative and well done monograph of Crane.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.