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Meynell, Alice. CHILDREN.|THE. John Lane: The Bodley Head, New York and London, 1897.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. decorated paper-covered boards. 106, (1) pages. First edition. Covers rubbed, with some wear to spine ends and corners. Else a very good copy. With cover design by Will Bradley.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Meynell, Alice. The Children. John Lane / Bodley Head, 1897.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece and decorative initials by Charles Robinson. Good and sound copy in the original dark blue cloth gilt. Edges lightly rubbed. some foxing of first and last leaves. Gift inscription on half title. 96 pages plus 16 page publisher's catalogue at rear. Approx. size 7" by 4.5". Illustrator: Charles Robinson. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27516.
Seller: Steve Liddle, ABA PBFA ILAB, Bristol, United Kingdom
MEYNELL, Alice. The Children. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1897.
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Philosophical musings on children and the state of childhood. First Edn., 1897; full navy cloth; titling/illus. (child surrounded by flowers with branching stems) blocked in gilt (quite bright) full to front board; titling/floral illus. blocked in gilt (quite bright) full to spine; fore/bottom edges uncut; 96pp. + 4pp. reviews (of works by Alice Meynell) + 11+[1]pp. publisher's illus. catalogue ('A List of Books For and About Children'); illus. bw. drawing (title page). Spine slightly rubbed/crushed at top/tail, but robust/clean/quite bright; boards lightly bumped at corners, but robust/bright/very clean; faint browning to endpapers, but pages clean/crisp/very bright. Binding firm, all complete/intact. Ink inscription to front free-endpaper. Lightweight item, henceo verseas customers will have SHIPPING CHARGES REDUCED subsequent to ordering. G+ PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING.
Seller: Robert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman', Norwich, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.08 + shipping
Description: LONDON : 1897. [ First published in the same year.]. Hardback. Pictorial title-page by Charles Robinson (with tissue-guard). Original dark-green smooth cloth; gilt pictorial cover. Gilt decorative and lettered spine. Untrimmed edges as issued. Neat owner name dated 1897; no internal markings. Minor dulling to spine. Bright, tight and clean. VERY GOOD INDEED. 96 pages. 4pp adverts, and 12 pages publisher's illustrated catalogue. Nice copy. CONTENTS: Fellow travellers with a bird, 1-2, -- Children in midwinter.- That pretty person.- Out of town.- Expression.- Under the early stars.- The man with two heads.- Children in burlesque.- Authorship.- Letters.- The fields.- The barren shore.- The boy.- Illness.- The young child.- Fair and brown.- Real childhood. Sm.8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
MEYNELL, Alice. The Children.. 1897, 1897.
Price: US$33.46 + shipping
Description: London & New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1897. Sm. 8vo. Attractively bound in orig. full navy-blue cloth with cover design by Charles Robinson. Gilt. (96, 4, 12pp.). With illust. title-page & accompanying tissue-guard, dec. initials, and pictorial adverts. at end. 1st edition. Uncut. Bookplate on front endpaper and picture of Meynell pasted in on front fly-leaf. Some foxing, mostly confined to prelims and endpapers, otherwise a very nice copy.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Meynell, Alice. The Children. John Lane: The Bodley Head, New York and London, 1897.
Price: US$42.00 + shipping
Description: 134 pp. 12mo. Decorated endpapers. Green cloth stamped in green and gold. Done into types and printed for John Lane at the Wayside Press, Springfield, Massachusetts, in December, Mdcccxcvi
Seller: Frogtown Books, Inc. ABAA, Toledo, OH, U.S.A.
Alice Meynell. The Children. John Lane,The Bodley Head, London, 1897.
Price: US$46.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorative gilt illustrations on the spine and front board. 96 pages, plus 12 pages of illustrated publisher's adverts.Illustrated title page, decorated chapter capitals. 4.75 X 7 inches. A very good copy, Cloth all very sound and with bright gilt lettering decorations and lettering, Binding firm and sound, inside all very good throughout, Name and date in ink on the front free endpaper, slight browning at the page edges, pages all in good order and clean and unmarked throughout.
Seller: Jacques Gander, Fairford, United Kingdom
Meynell, Alice. THE CHILDREN. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1897.
Price: US$51.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1897. Very good condition with no wrapper. Blue cloth with gilt title to spine and illustration to front cover. 96 pages plus publication list to rear. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Belongs to plate to front pastedown and inscription in ink to front endpaper. Endpapers partially browned. Light foxing to contents. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Meynell, Alice. The Children. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1897.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue boards with gilt design and letteirng to front and spine. With bumped and rubbed corners, shelf wear, rubbing to hinges and light foxing to eps. Sweet little copy.
Seller: Compass Books, Devon, United Kingdom
Alice Meynell. The Children. John Lane; Bodley Head, New York, 1897.
Price: US$77.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of this work on children by Alice Meynell in the original illustrated gilt cloth. The first edition of the work. Also published in the U.S by The Bodley Head in the same year.In the publisher's original blue cloth with gilt illustrations to the front board.With an illustrated title page and illuminated letters.This work was written by British writer, editor and suffragist Alice Meynell. Meynell had eight children, and wrote this work on the subject, discussing illness, hair colour and the general experience of raising children.With illustrated publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with very slight bumping and rubbing to the extremities and minor rubbing to the gilt illustration to the front board. Offsetting to the endpapers with the odd spot. Internally firmly bound with light spotting throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Meynell, Alice. THE CHILDREN. John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1897.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 96 pp. plus illustrated ads. Light foxing on endpapers. Blue cloth with beautiful gilt decoration and titles. Slightly darkened spine with head and tail lightly worn, cornes lightly bumped. VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Small 8vo, 7 x 4 1/2 inches. Publisher's smooth light green woven cloth with superb petal cover design by Will Bradley, gilt lettering on cover and spine. ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed by Will Bradley to George Tilton, proprietor of Towle Silver (noted longstanding silversmith in Newberry, Massachusetts, with whom Bradley had designed illustrated catalogues: "To my friend Geo P Tilton Esq. with regards of Will Bradley March 4 '97 My first book." Bradley is referring here to his newly formed and founded Wayside Press, which printed the book in 1896, (the colophon at end so designating). Rubricated title page designed by Bradley. Superb light green decorated endpapers by Will Bradley, as well as each poem's title page, initial letter and Wayside Press's dandelion leaf colophon design. T.E.G, others untrimmed. A fine copy, almost never seen for this Bodley Head title. Will Bradley presentation copies are seldom seen, and even more scarce with important associations.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.