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Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age. The Bodley Head, London, 1899.
Price: US$3.21 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Binding slightly loose, slight tear to top of front endpaper. Endpapers spotted, cover worn, scuffed and discoloured. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library. With usual stamps and markings. in poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Kenneth Grahame. The Golden Age. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1899.
Price: US$6.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Tenth Edition:A Good/Very Good copy, rubbed and chipped top and bottom of the spine, corners bumped and rubbed, page edges toned, boards marked in parts, previous owners name on end papers, internally clean and bright, tight binding.No Jacket as published.
Seller: Bawnmore Fine and Rare Books, Rugby, United Kingdom
Grahame, Kenneth. Golden Age. John Lane: The Bodley Head, New York, 1899.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: 241 pages. Gilt top edge. Binding soiled. Corners and edges of backstrip rubbed and bumped. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. Golden Age. John Lane: The Bodley Head, New York and London, 1899.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: soiling fading, binding tight, owners inscription. F3 3
Seller: COVENANT HERITAGE LIBRIS, Saint John, NB, Canada
Kenneth Grahame. The Golden Age. John Lane. The Bodley Head. London, 1899.
Price: US$10.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The book and contents are in good+ condition.96pp.The yellow cloth boards are a little used and the spine strip slightly dull.
Seller: VJ Books, Alcester, United Kingdom
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: NY: John Lane / The Bodley Head. Title: Dream Days Author: Kenneth Grahame Publisher: John Lane: The Bodley Head Date: 1899 Edition: Sixth Edition Pages: 275 Format: Hardcover Blue Cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Size: small 8vo "Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to the 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the same family of five children), Dream Days was first published in 1898 under the imprint John Lane: The Bodley Head." Condition: Good copy with edgewear, rubbing, and small scratches to covers, tears and light fraying to spine ends. See photos. cel/E
Seller: biblioboy, North Providence, RI, U.S.A.
Grahame Kenneth. The Golden Age. John Lane, The Bodley Head Ltd, 1899.
Price: US$72.76 + shipping
Description: In-8 sous reliure d'éditeur, 252 pp., publication anglaise de ce roman de Kenneth Grahame, illustrations de Maxfield Parris ; charnières fendues, coiffes usées, intérieur frais, état plus que très correct. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande. Parris Maxfield
Seller: Abraxas-libris, Bécherel, France
Grahame, Kenneth. THE GOLDEN AGE. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1899.
Price: US$129.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1899 on the copyright page facing the title page with a 1900 date. But. a contemporary inscription that reads "Jane Dustin Hollis from Mary McWharton Miller Xmas 1899". 252pp., (2)pp. ads, Black and white illustrates by Maxfield Parrish, bound in a burgundy cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt all others uncut, edges lightly rubbed, inner front hinge weakening, one plate loose.
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Golden Age. John Lane the Bodley Head [1899], London, 1899.
Price: US$243.72 + shipping
Description: A lovely first Maxfield Parrish illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame's celebrated childhood reminiscences. The first edition thus, embellished with nineteen full page plates in black and white by well-known American painter and illustrator Maxfield Parrish, including the illustrated title page. Dated to copyright 1899 and 1900 to illustrated title page. Dated from inscription, 1899. Collated, complete with two leaves of publisher's advertisements to rear.The celebrated reminiscences of childhood by Kenneth Grahame, following the true first of 1895.Eighteen tales recounted through charming imageries and metaphors rooted in the Ancient Greece, featuring many characters from Greek mythology; The adults are referred to as the 'Olympians.'The Prologue and six of the stories appeared previously inThe National Observer.Celebrated for the writing style and for the world created by Grahame, in which the adults have forgotten what it means to be young, and are in continuous warfare with the children. This was a theme that became very popular later on and was explored by other authors. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with decorative gilt to front board. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine, minor mark to rear board. Previous owner's gift inscription to front free endpaper dated 1899. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Occasional leaf unopened. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Kenneth Grahame. Dream Days. John Lane The Bodley Head, New York and London, 1899.
Price: US$1475.18 + shipping
Description: A delightful volume of children's tales in the extraordinarily scarce dust wrapper. A second edition copy. The dust wrapper is pretty much unheard of and is in lovely condition.Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood by Kenneth Grahame, and is a sequal to the 1895 collection The Golden Age.The volume is best known for its inclusion of Grahame's classic story The Reluctant Dragon, with some of the other stories included in the volume being The Twenty-First of October, A Departure and A Saga of the Seas.Scarce in the dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart with some fading to the spine and rubbing to the joints and extremities. With a previous owner book plate and inscription to the front pastedown and free endpaper for Arthur Francis Foster. Internally, generally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original dust wrapper which is smart with some chipping to the extremities and fading to the spine. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Parrish, Maxfield. Autograph letter, signed to Mr. Thompson, August 15, 1899. Windsor, VT, 1899.
Price: US$4025.00 + shipping
Description: (2)ff., on rectos only. In this revealing two-page letter, Maxfield Parrish bemoans last-minute controversies and deadlines related to The Bodley Head's 1899 publication of Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age. Primarily his complaints stem from the poor quality of the reproductions of his illustrationsâ"Parrish provided nineteen full-page images and twelve tailpieces for the editionâ"as well as the apparent apathy of John Lane, the head of The Bodley Head, toward their improvement. Parrish includes two proposed versions of the book's cover, one with wide margins and one with narrow. He states a desire to come up with a new idea, but it seems the latter design won out, appearing in blue with a gilt die. He closes the letter with a postscript questioning the categorization of The Golden Age as a children's book at all. A fine letter, with unique insight into Parrish's early years as an artist and illustrator. Folded in fourths.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.