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Traill, H. D.. The Barbarous Britishers. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1896.
Price: US$165.73 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. A near fine copy in contemporary limp calf with title on upper covers minor rubbing to the edges, no markings or inscriptions. Bound without the paper wrappers. Henry Duff Traill's parody of Grant Allen's fantasy 'The British Barbarians'.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
H. D. Traill. The Barbarous Britishers a Tip-Top Novel. John Lane, Bodley Head, London, 1896.
Price: US$231.89 + shipping
Description: The first edition of Henry Duff Traill's comical parody of a novel by Grant Allen, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley. The first edition of this uncommon work.'The Barbarous Britishers' is a comical parody of Grant Allen's 1895 'The British Barbarians', satirising the scenes of the novel incident by incident.By Henry Duff Traill, a noted journalistFront wrap and title page illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.Beardsley was a leading illustrator of the late twentieth century, beginning a promising career was a Modern Style artist before his early death at the age of 25. He was largely influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted scenes of the erotic, grotesque, and decadent. In the original publisher's paper wraps. Externally, the wraps are detached from the textblock, but present. Wraps are edge worn, with a chip to the head of the front wrap. Lacking most of the backstrip. Light discolouration and marks to the wraps. W. H. Smith blind stamp to the head of the rear wrap. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Good Only
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Traill, H. D.. Barbarous Britishers; A Tip-top Novel. John Lane, Bodley Head, London, 1896.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 95 pp. Cover art by Aubrey Beardsley. Rebound original wrappers intact, very good condition. (43983). A parody of "The British Barbarians" by Grant Allen.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$289.86 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Publisher's original brown thin card covers with titles and decoration in dark green to the upper and lower covers, and spine. The front cover, title page, and key monogram (to rear panel and verso of the title-page) are by Aubrey Beardsley. All edges untrimmed. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the thin card covers are a little toned, the yapped edges nicked and creased. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Priced 'One Shilling Net' to the upper edge of the front panel. A very well-preserved copy. Triall's 'tip-top novel', is a parodic response to Grant Allen's 'hill-top novel', 'The British Barbarians' (1895), the twenty-first volume in John Lane's Keynotes series. Allen's anthropological satire of late nineteenth century mores was also published with designs by Beardsley. The designs for Traill's book, like its contents, lampoon those of the earlier work. The wrappers were published in two variants, with either dark brown or dark green lettering (to brown wraps in both variants). (Lasner 98; Bleiler; Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom