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John Masefield. The Collected Poems of John Masefield. Heinemann, London, 1923.
Price: US$6.42 + shipping
Description: Please E-mail for further details . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: J J Basset Books, bassettbooks, bookfarm.co.uk, Peter Tavy, United Kingdom
L.Callender [ed]. The Windmill. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1923.
Price: US$8.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stories, essays, poems and pictures by authors and artists whose works are published at the sign of the Windmill [William Heinemann] the editor explains in the introduction that he has collected a representative selection from the works of authors, poets and artists whose books have been issued during the last 30 years [so from 1893]Includes work by John Galswaorthy,John Masefield,Jack London,Siegfried Sassoon, Eden Philpotts and many others who were popular at the time.Illustrators include Rackham, Lovat fraser,Cecil Aldin, Max Beerbohm and pthers. Hardback. 224pp. List of contents and list of illustrations. 26cm x 19cm Text and illustrations VG brown boards with magenta linen spine are marked and sl rubbed.
Seller: mcgbooks, Worthing, United Kingdom
John Masefield. COLLECTED POEMS. William Heinemann, London, 1923.
Price: US$18.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original binding in blue cloth. Gold title front and spine. 784 pages includes index. Text starting to age. An average 1st edition. Scans available.
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
John Masefield. Collected Poems. Wm. Heinemann, London, 1923.
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 9th Printing October 1927. Full Leather on beveled boards w/titles & sailing ship on cvr **see photo** owners inscrpt 1st blank pg, fep missing. Covers w/edge/corner wear, seperating from spine as shown.784 pgs of prose/poetry/songs Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: The Vintage BookStore, Jim Thorpe, PA, U.S.A.
John Masefield. The Collected Poems Of John Masefield. William Heinemann, London, 1923.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stock a little toned and some spotting to edges of block, but in general VG internal order. Bookplate to front pastedown. Full blue leather binding with gilt titling a little worn to edges and spine, but not unattractively. 12mo. 784pp
Seller: Dodman Books, Morston, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Description: A very good full leather binding with the embossed image of a galleon under sail. Thick 8vo. 7.5" x 5.25" x 2.0". pp.ix/[1p.]/pp.784 . Polished tan leather with embossed titles to both the front board and spine. Top page edges gilt. Small dark green bookseller's label to verso of the front board: "J. J. Banks & Son, Imperial Library, Cheltenham." Plain endpapers, no inscriptions or other marks. Clean text throughout. VG. ** "John Edward Masefield (1 June 1878 12 May 1967) was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and the poems The Everlasting Mercy and "Sea-Fever"." - See Wikipedia
Seller: CHILTON BOOKS, SUDBURY, United Kingdom
Masefield, John (1878-1967). The collected poems of John Masefield. London : Heinemann, 1923.
Price: US$71.63 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Some surface stains to front board. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by the author to ffep. Previous owner's inscription also to ffep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 784 pages; Physical description: 784p ; 19 cm. Subjects: Poetry -- English poets -- Anthology -- English literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Masefield, John (1878-1967). The collected poems of John Masefield. London : Heinemann, 1923.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Some surface stains to front board. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by the author to ffep. Previous owner's inscription also to ffep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 784 pages; Physical description: 784p ; 19 cm. Subjects: Poetry -- English poets -- Anthology -- English literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Masefield, John.. COLLECTED POEMS.. William Heinemann: London, 1923.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Portrait, 9 x 5.75, cloth w/leather spine label, 784 pp, t.e.g., bookplates, ink name, label scuffed and slightly peeled, corner bumped, minor stain to back upper corner of cover, some offset from newspaper clippings laid-in in back. FIRST ED, ONE OF 530 (#7) NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY MASEFIELD WITH HOLOGRAPH COUPLET ABOVE SIGNATURE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Masefield, John. Collected Poems. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1923.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: No. 253/530 copies printed. Signed by author.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
MASEFIELD, John.. COLLECTED POEMS.. William Heinemann, London. 1923. First edition., 1923.
Price: US$167.30 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 784pp. Full blue leather with gilt titles. Gilt top edge. Spine very faded with slighty fraying to spine ends & corners. A folded letter signed by John Masefield, is taped to front paste down endpaper with previous bookseller's label. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Worn bookmark ribbon loose. A good sound hardback copy.
Seller: Sainsbury's Books Pty. Ltd., Camberwell, VIC, Australia
Masefield John. The Collected Poems. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1923.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. ix, 784 pages. Original cloth with leather title label, lettered gilt, on spine. D/W darkened, rubbed, and soiled. No.237 of 530 copies printed. "Happy, but impotent, however stirred, The second is, without the first or third. John Masefield."
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
John Masefield. The Collected Poems of John Masfield. William Heinemann Ltd: London, 1923.
Price: US$244.26 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: William Heinemann Ltd: London. 1923. leather bound. Condition Fine. Overall in excellent shape. Seller Inventory # NEA-00043
Seller: Night light, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Masefield, John. Collected Poems. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1923.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No. 379/500 signed by author.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
MASEFIELD, John.. Collected Poems.. London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 429 of 530 copies, signed by the author, together with a couplet ("Yet, when the Trinity exults, oh, then, / What bliss to be, altho' despised of men.") on the limitation page. The collection includes "Sea-Fever" and "Cargoes", two poems which a subsequent Poet Laureate, John Betjeman, stated would be "remembered as long as the language lasts". Masefield was approached by his publishers about a single volume of collected poetry and, hesitant about killing sales of individual titles, he asked Thomas Hardy for advice. Hardy responded that "the more editions there are the better", and encouraged Masefield to trust his publishers (see Purdy & Millgate). The standard trade edition was a phenomenal success with the first impression of 10,000 copies selling out during the first week of publication. It has been stated that 100,000 copies sold in the first seven years of publication (Buchan). Each copy in the limited edition included one of eight couplets. Six of the couplets form a single poem, commencing "On these three things a poet must depend", and the present copy presents the final two lines of the poem. The complete poem exists in manuscript in the Masefield papers at the University of Texas, and was first published in Errington's bibliography of Masefield. Errington A71(bb). Purdy & Millgate, Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy, VI, 1987, p. 189; Buchan, ed., Letters to Reyna, 1983, p. 26. Octavo. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in gilt and to navy blue morocco label, top edge gilt. With dust jacket. Frontispiece photogravure portrait. Browning to endpapers; dust jacket toned with some minor loss to top edge, original publication price on spine: a fine copy in a very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom