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Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. 52 drawings; gilt on cover; blind stamping; signed by author Walter Crane; limited to 300 copies; loose plates Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,5050grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover shows moderate to heavy wear and rubbing, soiling and edgewear. Loose hinges. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$529.16 + shipping
Description: 57 Tafeln in Heliogravüre auf aufgewalztem China (davon 1 Druckvermerk). Eins von 300 num. und vom Autor sign. Exemplaren. - Walter Crane zählt mit William Morris und Dante Gabriel Rossetti zu den wichtigsten Mitgliedern der Arts-and-Crafts-Bewegung und fungierte als deren erster Präsident. - Bll. etw. wasserrandig, Einbd. vor allem an den Kanten stärker beschabt und hinten mit Wasserspuren. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 0
Seller: Antiquariat Joachim Lührs, Hamburg, Germany
Price: US$749.64 + shipping
Description: Imp.-Folio. 56 lose Tafeln auf Chinapapier. Signiert v. Walter Crane. Halbleinenmappe. Half cloth portfolio. Starke Gebrauchssp. Im Rand gebr., stockfl. Rubbed, bumped, with defective spots and tears. Margins browned, foxed. Nr. 189 of 200 copies. Sprache: Deutschu 5,000 gr.
Seller: Neusser Buch & Kunst Antiquariat, Neuss, NRW, Germany
Crane, Walter. The First Of May, A Fairy Masque. Henry Sotheran, London, 1881.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. Folio, 48 x 39 cm. Limited edition, copy 161 of 300 signed by Crane. 57 engraved plates including half-title, title, dedication, frontispiece, colophon and 52 engraved plates mounted on India proof paper containing illustrations and calligraphy by Crane. The 52 pencil designs were reproduced by Goupil and Company using photogravure, a process Crane found highly satisfactory. Loose as issued in original brown cloth portfolio gilt, printed pictorial label on upper cover This work was dedicated to Charles Darwin. SPENCER p.83-83. "a delightful inventory of imaginative design: little studies of animals and birds, grotesques, frogs, flowers and elves.more decorous, pretty and Kate Greenaway like than ever before.Burne-Jones greatly admired this gift book." Scattered foxing mostly marginal. Renewed endpapers, rebacked in a very solid binding. Orig. brown cloth. front cover paper label faded. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. 57 sheets unbound sheets (and one limitation sheet), numbered I to LVI, each with magnificent drawing by Crane comprising illustrated panels with decorative borders. Signed by Walter Crane in pencil on limitation page (No. 20 of 300 Copies Only. Has original publication prospectus with elaborate Crane borders, title, etc. plus pricing (on smoother, light brown paper. Edition printed on thick art paper. Many consider this to be Crane's crowning achievement, and surely the sheer number and quality of design bears this out. The book is boldly dedicated to Charles Darwin in a preliminary sheet. Most of these illustrations were done in 1878 and 1879 while Crane was visiting the Sherwood Forest, the setting in which Wise chose for his fairy tale adventure in a Mayday variation on "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The drawings appear in the book as high quality photogravure by Goupil and Company, a process Crane found to be highly successful. Edward Burne-Jones. "Burne-Jones greatly admired this gift book. Many other details reflect the influence of the older artist's work [Burne-Jones'] such as the flowing bands of drapery for the rainbow Guardian in the 'Procession of Spring', Cranes androgynous nudes and various perpendicular compositions which echo the gentle spiral of 'They Golden stairs', one of the Burne-Jones' major works of the decade. Significant amount of foxing due to acidic nature of art paper (commonly seen) especially first few leaves, but not really affecting the the inserted plates (more on the acidic backing paper), else a very scarce survival indeed.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: No. 88 of 200 copies on India paper, signed by the artist. Large folio (62cm) with loose prints, as issued. Brown cloth-covered portfolio, gilt-tooled, with paper onlay to front; yellow burnished endpaper; protective brown paper wrapper with remnants of wax seals; 57 photogravure proofs on India paper, laid down on large sheets of art paper, numbered I-LVI with additional limitation sheet. Signed by Crane in pencil on limitation sheet. Photogravure by Goupil & Co. Portfolio whole but rubbed, silk ribbon ties lacking; sheets rubbed at edges, with minor foxing, not affecting proofs: overall Very Good, with image area generally Fine. Set of the first proofs of Crane's work, with calligraphic text inside decorated and illustrated border panels, dedicated to Charles Darwin. Crane executed both the calligraphy and illustration himself, believing strongly in the importance of unity of design. Though he was an active Socialist from the early 1880s, this work treats May Day as the traditional celebration of spring; May 1 was not chosen as the date for International Workers' Day until 1889. 200 copies of the first proofs and 300 copies of the second proofs were issued.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.