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Kenneth Grahame. The Golden Age. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904.
Price: US$14.10 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1904. 16th edition. 196 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth with black lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Noticeable tanning to text block edges. More pronounced tanning and foxing to free end papers and pastedowns. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Strong tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Kenneth Grahame. The Golden Age. The Bodley Head, 1904.
Price: US$14.45 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1904. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. No dust jacket. Decorative blue cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Black and white illustrated plates. Noticeable thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages and plates. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with moderate water staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has similar tanning with soft splitting, fraying and crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Kenneth. Grahame. THE GOLDEN AGE. : Kenneth. Grahame. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boards worn, corners bumped, hinges cracked, some foxing, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.
Seller: High Street Books, New Mills, United Kingdom
Kenneth Grahame, Retold By Jane Carruth. The GOLDEN AGE. John Lane, Bodley Head, London, 1904.
Price: US$19.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good, hardback, greenish-brown pictorial cloth covers with black titles on ornately illustrated spine which is tarnished, gift message (1906), contents are clean and unmarked, 16mo 196pp roughcut pages. Weight 300g. 15th edition. Contains 18 stories.
Seller: Rivermead Books, Southampton., United Kingdom
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth decorated with small black butterflies. 252 pp., plus ads. Black and white illustrations by Maxfield Parrish throughout, all present as called for. Illustrated edition of this collection of childhood memories, fictionalized and mythologized through the use of ancient Greek metaphors. GOOD condition. Mostly minor spotting, staining and soiling to the covers, a bit heavier to the front cover. Extremities scuffed and worn. Interior solid, with some foxing in the gutters of a few scattered pages throughout.
Seller: Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age. The Bodley Head, London, 1904.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: Some wear to the covers, but overall a; A clean copy with gilt and black decorated covers. Dated 1900 on the Title Page, but also having a copyright date of 1904. B & W Illus by Maxfield Parrish. 19 B & W illos. Very Good solid copy of an uncommon Book. Some wear to the covers, but overall a solid copy of an uncommon Book.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Reprint. Octavo bound in green cloth with multi-colored pictorial front cover. B&W illustrations. Condition: minor rubbing & some wear to binding; front inner hinge a bit stressed; bookplate; else good. Pages: 252 and 3 pages of publisher's ads.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
KENNETH GRAHAME. THE GOLDEN AGE. JOHN LANE/THE BODLEY HEAD, 1904.
Price: US$25.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: JOHN LANE/THE BODLEY HEAD 1904 sixteenth edition. 196pp. Hardcover. Very good condition, on yellow cloth boards with detailed decoration to front and spine. Really great condition for age. Swiftly shipped from Suffolk UK. Images available on request
Seller: madelyns books, suffolk, United Kingdom
Price: US$27.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: British edition, 1904. First thus. Date of 1900 (original edition) to title page. Correct date of 1904 (this edition) to copyright page. No jacket as issued. Illustrations by Maxfield Parrish re-produced in photogravure. All 19 illustrations and original captioned tissue guards are present and in very good condition (little patchy browning/odd small mark/foxing). Pictorial green/white boards gold lettering to spine and front are good with a few marks, rubbing, pushing/bumping to corners, patchy fading/whitening, few small bumps/rubs to edges, rubbing to front illustration and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/little fraying to the cloth) to head/tail of spine. Little spine lean. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top of pages gilt. Rough cut page edges and bottoms. Pages bit tanned. Odd small mark/minor foxing to page edges and bottoms. End-papers tanned with mild foxing/odd small mark. Odd small marks/scattered foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Grahame Kenneth. The Golden Age. BODLEY HEAD, 1904.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rubbed spine edge, gilt lettering on cover and spine, deckled pages _PAB_ 252
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age (Illustrated). John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904.
Price: US$37.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1904. John Lane The Bodley Head. Hardback. VERY GOOD Green illustrated cover. Gilt title. Gilt page tops. Internally and externally good. Pages clean. Binding good. Black and white illustrations. Spine cracked in some places. Tanning to page edges. Scuffing to spine. Shelf/edge wear. 8.5' x 6.5'
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1904.
Price: US$39.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 252pp, illust. (b&w by Maxfield Parrish). Dark green boards w. gilt titles, picture on front board of two boys climbing over a garden wall. Top edge gilt. Sl. wear to top & bottom of spine & corners. Paste browning to eps. Stain to page edges of text block. May be occasional light foxing.
Seller: The Devonport Vintage Bookshop, Auckland, NZ, New Zealand
GRAHAME, Kenneth.. THE GOLDEN AGE.. Bodley Head, London., 1904.
Price: US$43.32 + shipping
Description: 2nd ed (1st illustrated ed). The new edition with photogravure illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. Boards a little bumped at extremities. Top edge gilt. 1 tissue guard missing. Some pages chipped with loss at edges from careless opening ow vg+.
Seller: Dennys, Sanders & Greene, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Grahame, Kenneth. Golden Age, The. John Lane/The Bodley Head London 1904, 1904.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Good + Edition Not Specified Printing Not Spec. 12mo = 7-9" No DJ 252pp Cloth covers are bumped on corners & top/bottom of spine. Illus on front cover. Rough cut pages. Illustrations are tissue covered by Maxfield Parish. Text is clean with good binding. none
Seller: Heritage Books, Southampton, MA, U.S.A.
GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Golden Age. John Lane: The Bodley Head, London and New York, 1904.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New edition. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Decorative olive cloth stamped in black, green, red, white, and gilt, top edge gilt. Owner's name (Elise Du Pont) penned on preliminary page, scattered foxing on some pages, spine cocked and dampstained with letters tarnished, about very good wtih printing flaw of a couple of pages in rear with the text being darker and bleeding through to other side of text.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age. Illustrated By Maxfield Parrish. John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1904.
Price: US$63.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age. John Lane, 1904.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Lane : The Bodley Head, 1900. Olive green cloth, illustration of river/house-castle on front, river and sky in gilt, 18 bw illustration, tissues all in place, 252 pp. Book is in very nice shape, very clean and sharp. Tips of corners show hint of wear, one corner bumped, minor cock to spine, front hinge shaken, minor rubbing to front cover. Front cover illustration is very bright, spine gilt lettering clean but not bright. Overall an excellent copy.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Golden Age. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1904.
Price: US$66.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st printing. Prior owner name to FEP. PG, 2 edges untrimmed.
Seller: Strawberry Hill Books, Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Golden Age. John Lane The Bodley Head, London and New York, 1904.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New edition. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Blue cloth decorated in dark blue and gilt. Neat gift inscription to Caspar Wistar Wooldridge foem his family, extremities a little rubbed, a very good or better copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ***please read*** no marks on text - name inside cover - pages are clean and bright - gold edge on top - spine is tight - my shelf location 5-a-7
Seller: MyLibraryMarket, Waynesville, OH, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Golden Age. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London and New York, 1904.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Pp. [x]251 +[3]pp. ads. This is the edition with the beautiful Maxfield Parrish front cover, showing a castle high on a rock, above a golden river (really gilt, as printed, and with a golden sky). With 19 black & white plates, each with tissue guards. A near fine copy with the cover illustration bright, and only tiny spots of rubbing to extremities. Spine titling dulled, as usual. T.e.g. Presentatipn inscription to blank page before half-title, else internally immaculate.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth & Parrish, Maxfield. THE GOLDEN AGE. John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1904.
Price: US$92.80 + shipping
Description: THE GOLDEN AGE, John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1904, spine lettering a bit dulled, else a bright vg copy in green, black, gray, orange and gold-gilt pictorial stamping with 19 illustrations by Maxfield Parrish.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Golden Age. John LaneThe Bodley Head, London, 1904.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 18 black and white illustrations by Maxfield Parrish with lettered tissue guards. 252pp., thick 8vo, gilt-stamped pictorial blue cloth, uncut edges, t.e.g. London and New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, (1904). Second Edition. Very good(+). Bookplate on inside front cover.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Lane: The Bodley Head January 1904 Binding: Hardcover First Edition 1900 $NRP
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Grahame, Kenneth. The Golden Age. The Bodley Head, London, 1904.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Early ptg. of the Parrish illustrated edition, 8vo, full tan cloth with pictorial gilt , green,white and red, top edge gilt, illustrated with tissue-guarded, captioned photogravures by Maxfield Parrish and monotone pictorial endpapers. Light rubbing to cover inks, tear to frontis tissue guard, and a hint of color touch to tips, near fine.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
GRAHAME, Kenneth PARRISH, Maxfield. Golden Age. 2nd Parrish illus edition. John Lane, 1904,, 1904.
Price: US$112.29 + shipping
Description: GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Golden Age. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. L. & N.Y.: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1900 [i.e. 1904]. Second Maxfield Parrish edition. Pp 252, frontis., illus. title page, + 17 plates. 8vo, illustrated olive cloth, t.e.g. Covers lightly rubbed with some white background missing from front cover, else vg. 150.00
Seller: John W. Doull, Bookseller, Dartmouth, NS, Canada
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame (Maxfield Parrish Art) A tight square copy with slight spine fade. Owner's small name label to ffe corner. Reissue of the New Edition with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. 19 monochrome plates with captioned tissue-guards, including the frontispiece and title page. Illustrated monochrome endpieces to each chapter. Publisher's decorative blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cover lettered and ruled in gilt with a dark blue butterfly pattern and inner ruling. Endpapers illustrated in green. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. 252pp + [4] ads.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Golden Age. John Lane, London, 1904.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: John Lane: The Bodley Head, London and New York, 1904. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. First edition thus. First edition thus, first with the Maxfield Parrish illustrations and second edition overall. Octavo Square like 4to in the original blue gilt pictorial cloth, the first binding preceding the pictorial binding of a month or so later. top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Illustrated endpapers. 18 full ,page plates by Parrish, captioned tissue guards. A tight, bright example, a mere touch of rubbing to the front cover. Interior bright and clean. A pretty copy, slightly shaken with a touch of rubbing, at tips but pretty, this is the 1st Golden Age with Parrish, and the second edition overall after the 1900 1st English plain edition, lacking Parrish. both editions are hence very desirable. to have. He also wrote Dream Days to go with this title, forming a duet. also illustrated by Parrish. a masterful appearance Size: 4to
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Kenneth Grahame. The Golden Age. Bodley Head, 1904.
Price: US$164.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: full leather binding, Ills. by Maxfield Parish Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Kenneth Grahame. The Golden Age. The Bodley Head, 1904.
Price: US$630.65 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: !st illustrated edition of this book, a companion to Dream Days. original blue boards with the beautiful Maxfield Parrish Illustration to front titles in gilt to board and spine No marks or inscriptions, no foxing or staining, rough cut pages but top of text block gilt. A lovely copy. all photogravure ills extant with tissue guards scans available on request.
Seller: Jack Ryder Books, Liskeard, United Kingdom
Price: US$2229.57 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, first impression, signed by the illustrator on the front free endpaper. This is a rare title to find signed. The Golden Age, first published in 1895, is a collection of childhood reminiscences by Kenneth Grahame, the author of The Wind in the Willows. The Parrish edition of The Golden Age was the first illustrated edition, published in 1899. It was bound in red cloth, with the title page dated 1900. This 1904 edition contains new photogravure reproductions of the Parrish illustrations, including the title page dated 1900. It was published as a companion volume to Dream Days (1902). Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front lettered in orange and black on white ground above an illustration of a castle by a river in gilt, green, and orange, within a single rule black border, light brown printed endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Photogravure frontispiece, title page, and 17 plates by Parrish, all with captioned tissue guards, tailpieces, pp. 3 advertisements at rear. Foot of spine gently bumped, extremities and head of front cover rubbed, slight wear to corners and outer edge of front cover, a little shaken with a few gatherings roughly opened. A very good copy indeed, in fresh condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom