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Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 1904. First Jesse M. King edition. 24 plates. c.p.Text age-toned, plates bright and clean.Ownership inscription 1907 on f.e.p. t.e.g.in publishers' ornate pictorial cloth gilt. Spine slightly darkened with small loss to top and tail of spine otherwise very good. COLIN WHITE 36.
Seller: Bath House Books, Ditchingham, United Kingdom
Morris, William. The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems. John Lane, the Bodley Head, London, 1904.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Mary Austin's copy with her name inscribed on front pastedown. Illustrated by Jessie M. King. Ex-library copy with labels, card pocket, and stamps from the Santa Fe public library. Signatures are loosening, a bit shaken overall. Red cloth boards with intricate gilt pictorial are soiled and rubbed, interior is clean and free of markings save for library miscellany. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pp
Seller: Back of Beyond Books, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1904. Hardback, 8vo, 310pp, illust. Endpapers a little spotted/foxed, front hinge tearing. Original red cloth, gilt decorated, top edge gilt, spine a little faded, bumped and marked. A good copy. /0.6uk
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Price: US$487.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus, 1904. Plates and text illustrations throughout by Jessie M. King. Top edges gilt. Some foxing throughout, heavy on a few pages. publishers gilt decorated red cloth very slightly marked and with some very light rubbing to extreme edges. the cloth is very slightly bubbled down the spine edge of the rear boards. generally a very good bright copy with the lovely gilt decorations by Jessie M. King to front cover and the spine. A difficult book to find in nice condition and scarce as such. 310 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
William Morris. The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems. The Bodley Head, 1904.
Price: US$692.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st printing. Magnificently illustrated throughout by Jessie M King. Upper cover with fine gilt decoration, spine sun dulled, TEG. 2 edges untrimmed. Internally fine.
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
William Morris. The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1904.
Price: US$763.54 + shipping
Description: A nice copy of these mythological poems by William Morris, this new edition beautifully illustrated by Jessie M. King. A collection of the dark poetry of William Morris, set in a sombre world of violence, many of which are written in a dramatic monologue.When first published in 1858 this collection was cooley received by critics.Illustrated with a frontispiece, twenty-four plates, and illustrations throughout.Collated, complete.This edition was illustrated by Jessie M. King. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Very light rubbing to the joints. Light marks to the head of the spine. Spots to the paste downs and endpapers. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the occasional scattered spot. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1020.20 + shipping
Description: [Pre-Raphaelite Poetry] FIRST KING-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 310. With 96 illustrations by King, including a frontispiece, decorated title page, and numerous in-text illustrations and full-page plates. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. A lovely crisp, clean copy, with a little light wear to the binding, and some sunning to spine. Near fine. The very first volume of Pre-Raphaelite poetry to be published, originally in 1858. King's gloriously Art Nouveau illustrations recall both the intensity of the Morris' work, and the contemporary Aesthetic movement, especially the work of Aubrey Beardley.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom