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Price: US$155.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 29 x 23 cm. Quarto. xxvi 162pp of textual description, each followed by an illustration. Bound into grey cloth over boards. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of Beardsley. Page 162 is detached but present and laid-in. Front gutter is cracked. Some toning to the spine. Published as part of a series with "The Early Work" and "The Later Work"
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Introduction by C. Lewis Hind. Fine in an about Fine jacket, unclipped (£2.20 net), a few small closed tears at the edges. Cream buckram with blue ink lettering and designs matching that of the jacket. Square and firmly bound with a black top stain, frontispiece of Beardsley, and profusely illustrated. A remarkable copy of this work that was published to be uniform with The Early Work and The Later Work. This copy comes with a contemporary letter on John Lane letterhead explaining a delay in printing the book because of "a late discovery of hitherto unknown work of Beardsley's."
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$654.50 + shipping
Description: First edition. With 162 plates, 155 reproducing drawings and artwork by Aubrey Beardsley, a number are in colour, and with plates are portraits and photos of Beardsley. 4to, publisher's original aqua-blue cloth with black lettering and pictorial designs on the upper cover and spine, in the rare dustjacket which reproduces the binding design in blue on gray paper. xxvi, 162 plates each preceded by numbered and captioned title sheets. A very fine and handsome copy, the cloth very fine and fresh, the textblock extremely clean, the jacket in extraordinary shape, in all quite superb with no noticeable faults. About as good a copy as one could ever hope to see. FIRST EDITION IN THE RARE DUSTJACKET. A companion volume to THE EARLY WORK and THE LATER WORK which reproduces many early drawings from various books, drawings done for "Past and Present" (the magazine of the Brighton Grammar School), letters which include sketches, and other such drawings. Includes a portrait by Blanche, two by Sickert, three youthful photos, and a caricature by Max Beerbohm.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.