Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf. G/No Dustjacket. ca 1922. Ltd Edition. Vellum spine/Boards. Number 142 of 500 copies printed . 4to., unpaginated, rubbed, bumped, frayed, ex-library w/stamp, page toning .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
E.O. Hoppe. The Book of Fair Women. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1922.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1922 1st --and limited-- edition of this lavish collection of 32 E.O. Hoppe tipped-in portraits of beautful women around the world. #387 of 500 copies issued in its patterned, vellum-backed boards. Solid and VG+, with light rubbing and a bit of light staining along the spine, and minor abrading at the rear hinge. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind. Tall quarto, each photo merits a preceding caption page, which identifies the subject and her nationality. A lovely collection, each "fair" woman photographed by Hoppe in a rich, appreciative gravure.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: No. 393 of 500 copies. 32 photogravures. 27 pp. text. 1 vols. 4to. Parchment spine, batik-patterned boards. Spine mottleed, as is usual, small chip repaired at bottom of spine, else VG 32 photogravures. 27 pp. text. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hoppe, E. O.; King, Richard. The Book of Fair Women. Alfred A. Knopf [1922], New York, 1922.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decorative paper over boards, backed in Japanese vellum. N.d., but circa 1922 (intro is dated 1922). Number 465 from a limited edition of 500 copies. Contains 32 tipped-on photogravure portraits of pretty ladies from all over the world. A nice look at international fashions of the time. Heavily chipped along joints and edges of boards, but internally clean.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.