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Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus Ltd, 1931.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Name of the previous owner. 2nd impression, 1931. Publication of 101 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is light foxing around the block of the book and on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto and Windus, 1931.
Price: US$6.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'The Grasshoppers Come' by David Garnett. Chatto and Windus 1931 first edition. Near VG. No dust jacket.
Seller: D & M Books, PBFA, Mirfield, United Kingdom
David Garnett. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto and Windus, U K, 1931.
Price: US$6.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition - second impression in the same year as published. Purple and black marbled boards. The cloth of the boards is 'bubbling' (lifting) slightly to the spine edge, but is still firm. Clean pages. Woodcut art-work. Gilt to top page edge. Size: 8in x 51/2in
Seller: Riley Books, Oswaldtwistle, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus 1931,, 1931.
Price: US$6.41 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 101pp, illustrated, light foxing and browning, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, purple mottled boards, the cloth rippled over the boards; Good / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
GARNETT,DAVID. The Grasshoppers Come. chatto & windus london 1931, 1931.
Price: US$7.55 + shipping
Description: second impression 101pp VG+ (burgundy cloth,sl.sunned spine and edges,owner's inscr.to ffep,eps and edges sl.foxed w.some minor foxing to contents,sl.cocked) in VG d/w (sl.soiled w.spine browned,sl.wear to extrems.w.hinges sl.rubbed,price-clipped)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
David Garnett. The grasshoppers come. Chatto and Windus, LONDRA, 1931.
Price: US$8.79 + shipping
Description: INGLESE Legatura in tela, marmorizzata, con titoli in oro solo al dorso, con quest'ultimo scolorito e con leggera usura alle cuffie, con lievi segni d'uso. Pagine ingiallite, con tagli irregolari, salde, con ampio margine e piccole fioriture sparse, arricchite da tavole in bianco e nero, nel testo. Numero pagine 101.
Seller: Biblioteca di Babele, Tarquinia, VT, Italy
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto and Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$9.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first edition with engravings by R. A. Garnett, purple speckled cloth, spine slightly faded, first edition. The author was a member of the Bloomsbury Group
Seller: Salsus Books (P.B.F.A.), Kidderminster, United Kingdom
Garnett,David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$10.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in Publisher's red and black snakeskin patterned cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No dust-jacket.This copy has one previous ownership bookplate to the front free endpaper.Binding remains firm with no hinge weakness.Decent copy for the collector,8vo 101pp First Edition
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Garnett, David:. The Grasshoppers Come. Illustrated by R A Garnett.. London: Chatto, 1931.
Price: US$10.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 101p cloth, second impression, with illustrations, very good Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
GARNETT, DAVID. THE GRASSHOPPERS COME. Chatto and Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$10.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 101pp; Covers slightly sunned and price-clipped d/w slightly yellowed at edges and spine else a very bright copy; T.e.g.; Size: 12mo
Seller: Weathered Stone Books, Skreen, SLIGO, Ireland
David Garnett. The Grasshoppers Come.. Chatto & Windus 1931, 1931.
Price: US$11.73 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1931. 101 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: uk1st.edition.1st.printing.near vg hardback.no dustwrapper. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: S.Carter, NEWPORT, United Kingdom
David Garnett. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$13.13 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1931. Second Impression. 101 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages and plates are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Garnett. David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto and Windus 1931 (1st UK), 1931.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first impression. Scarce in the dustjacket. Sl loss to spine ends and a tear up the spine foldover. Inscription on f.f.e.in the month of publication. A prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, Garnett went on to write Pocahontas. Very Good in a Very Good d/w.
Seller: CHRIS MARTIN MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, Pleasley, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decorative covers. 101pp., 6 b/w engravings. Corners slightly bumped, spine a little sunned. Some foxing to outer edges of text block and occasionally to contents o/w very good condition. Dustwrapper toned, upper edge worn o/w good.
Seller: Broad Street Book Centre, Hereford, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. The grasshoppers come. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$16.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, segni d'uso Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, bruniture macchie
Seller: Miliardi di Parole, Pietra Marazzi, AL, Italy
Garnett, David:. The Grasshoppers Come. Illus R A Garnett.. London: Chatto, 1931.
Price: US$17.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 101p cloth, dustjacket (spine a bit dark), fresh and clean first edition Language: English
Seller: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto and Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$17.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A classic of aviation literature. 101pages. With six wood engravings. Some light foxing in places. Gilt top page edges; some stains on fore edge. Size: 195mm Tall, 12mo
Seller: Andmeister Books, London, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. London; Chatto & Windus;, 1931.
Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Very good with some foxing and fading to the spine. Illustrated with wood engravings by R.A. Garnett. Lacks dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
GARNETT, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition.Cocked, about very good lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Garnett, David. THE GRASSHOPPERS COME. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-101 [102-104: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], six woodcut illustrations by R. A. Garnett, original mottled black and maroon cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition, trade issue. ". bizarre . tells of the ordeal of an airman stranded alone and injured in a strange desert." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 80. Striking illustrations. Bleiler (1948), p. 123. Some light sunning to cloth, a very good copy. (#112351)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
David Garnett. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo 101pp. Five black and white wood engravings. Purple and black mottled cloth, gilt. Top edges gilt. Very light wear to ends of spine and light spotting to leading edges of pages, a few pages unevenly trimmed. Cream decorative dustwrapper not price clipped. Spine darkening.
Seller: Helen Deighton PBFA, Sturminster Newton, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. London; Chatto & Windus;, 1931.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Near fine with some fading to the spine. Illustrated with wood engravings by R.A. Garnett. Lacks dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$29.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Patterned purple cloth titled in gilt, TEG. Minor bubbling to cloth at front gutter. Bookplate to fep. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is slighty chipped/edgeworn, toned to spine, rubbed to joints, price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
David Garnett. THE GRASSHOPPERS COME. London: Chatto and Windus, 1931.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. Decorative blue and gold cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and ends of spine somewhat bumped with light wear, spines sunned , covers very clean and sunned at extremities. Binding tight and text very clean, with some mild foxing to endpapers. Fiction. Stax.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
David Garnett. GRASSHOPPERS (THE) COME;. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: yellow buckram w/wear. fraying at spine ends, wear and bumping at corners. deckle edges. gold stamped titles on spine faded. linen fibre paper. contains 7 wood engravings by r.a. garnett. 101 pgs. very nice edition.
Seller: Counterpoint Records & Books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
David Garnett. THE GRASSHOPPERS COME. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First impression of the true first edition. With six black and white woodcuts: four full-page wood-cuts in the text and the smaller title-page and end-piece (as called for) by the illustrator Ray (Rachael) Garnett - Richard Garnett's wife.***Near fine in mock-marbled dark red and black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and decorative gilt borders to spine. Top edge of text-block gilt, and bottom edge of text-block uncut (rough-cut, untrimmed, as called for). Contemporaneous tiny dark blue and gilt 'The Times Bookclub, 42 Wigmore Street, London W.1' label to bottom of rear pastedown. Unobtrusive tiny ink no's '6 31' unobtrusive to bottom of last page opposite rear pastedwon. No inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good beige and red wood-cut illustrated and bordered dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 5 shillings net. Very small chip to top edge of rear panel of dustwrapper. Spine of dustwrapper darkened. Red titles to spine slightly dulled. Tiny 2mm closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine slightly creased and rubbed. Edges of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and creased. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Front and rear panels and large inner flaps of the dustwrapper bright and well-preserved. ***101 pages. 196mm x 130 mm. ***'Mr Garnett finds an original subject for his latest story in the experiences of two men and a woman engaged on a record-breaking long distance air trip. They crash, and the pilot, whose leg is injured, is left alone, with little food, in a desert place. His feelings, adventures and sufferings there are described with precision and detail, and with extraordinary insight into the mind of a man who is at once brave and commonplace. Once again Mr. Garnett displays the versatility of his talent and the charm of his narrative style.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). David Garnett's wife, whose woodcuts appear in some of his books including The Grasshoppers Come, was the illustrator Rachel (Ray) Marshall (1891¿1940), sister of the translator and diarist Frances Partridge. David Garnett was a member of the artistic and literary Bloomsbury group. ***First impression of the true first edition, hard to find complete in its original 1931 dustwrapper in such nice clean collectable condition. ***Of interest to collectors of David Garnett and early twentieth century literary first edition's and first editions of the Bloomsbury group, and also of the illustrations by Ray (Rachael) Garnett. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus 1931, London, 1931.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 101 pp. Publisher's original patterned maroon boards in pictorial dust wrapper. Top edge gilt. Neat ink name to front endpaper. Light spotting to fore-edge. With wood engravings by R. A. Garnett. A VG copy in VG dj. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.35 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, with title-vignette and full-page illustrations in the text; red marbled cloth, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, very lightly browned dustwrapper.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
David Garnett. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto and Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$33.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An enjoyable novel by David Garnett. The first edition. Held in the original dustwrapper which is price clipped. The Grasshoppers Come follows the experiences of two men and a woman engaged on a record-breaking long distance air trip. They crash and the pilot is left alone with little food in a desert. Garnett describes his feelings, adventures and sufferings. The flyleaf notes that Garnett's descriptions are with 'precision and detail, and with extraordinary insight into the mind of a man who is at once brave and commonplace.' In publisher's cloth binding and held in original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, very smart with bumping to the head and tail of spine. Slight fading to the extremities. Dustwrapper is browned to the spine. Patches of rubbing to the spine and joints. Chipping to the head and tail of spine. Marks to the rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to the foredge and scattered spots to the pages, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come.. Chatto & Windus, Georgetown, 1931.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Dust jacket slightly chipped at extremities, otherwise fine condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
David Garnett. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto and Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Description: An attractive first edition of this short novel by David Garnett The first edition of this novel by David Garnett, following the experiences of two men and a woman trying to complete a record-breaking air trip, and all the incident that follows.David Garnett was a prominent member in the Bloomsbury Group, winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1922 with his novelLady into Fox.Illustrated by R A Garnett. From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things'. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, with some sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. With a minor faint spotting to the fore edge, affecting only the odd leaf slightly. Otherwise, the pages are generally very clean and bright throughout. Illustrated by R A Garnett. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
David Garnett. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Grasshoppers Come" by David Garnett 1931 - First Edition, Vintage Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket 7 3/4" x 5 1/4" 101 Pages The jacket is in good minus condition with edge wear and tanning. The jacket is now protected with a Mylar cover. The hardcover book is in good minus condition free from rips, tears, stains , bends, and writing. The book has been hand signed and inscribed by the author on the title page in black marker. There are a few black and white woodblock illustrations within the book. The boards are in good minus condition with minimal wear and corner bumps. The binding is tight and square.
Seller: Dara's Library, Wilmette, IL, U.S.A.
David (editor) Garnett. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$46.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First editionpart of special print run of 210 printed this numbered edition is :79 without jacket on yellow cloth AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR DAVID GARNETT SCARCE will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
GARNETT, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Description: Number 135 of 210 copies Internally very good , binding (very) firm, cover sound with some marking, spine faded, pics available Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two books by David Garnett. The Grasshoppers Come. 1932. Second impression. Together with A Rabbit in the Air. Notes from a Diary Kept while Learning to Handle an Aeroplane. 1932. First impression. Both in boards covered in patterned paper, with gilt titling to spines. Spines lightly faded, else fine. A Rabbit in the Air has a bookplate.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Garnett,David:. The Grasshoppers Come. London Chatto and Windus, 1931.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback,Special Limited Edition 85/210 Signed by Author,8vo,viii prelims,101pp text with 6 wood engravings by David Garnett.Very good in yellow bevelled buckram boards,gilt spine titles,uncut pages and top edge gilt.Spine sunned and boards a little marked otherwise clean and tight.No D/W.
Seller: Pauline Harries Books, Liphook, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. THE GRASSHOPPERS COME. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: THE GRASSHOPPERS COME, Chatto & WIndus, 1931, first edition, spine tanned, else a tight vg copy. Of 210 SIGNED / limited copies, this is 1/200 offered for sale. Illustrated by R. A. Garnett.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Garnett, David. THE GRASSHOPPERS COME. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: THE GRASSHOPPERS COME, Chatto & WIndus, 1931, first edition, spine tanned, else a tight vg copy. Of 210 SIGNED / limited copies, this is 1/200 offered for sale. Illustrated by R. A. Garnett.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
David Garnett. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #2/210cc, signed by the author. Illustrated by Ray Garnett. Covers mildly worn.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Author. Size: 12mo. 101 pp. Binding firm. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Top edge gilt in good condition. Covers marked. Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 37373.
Seller: Dreadnought Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
GARNETT, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Modest stain on front board, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. Round, leather bookplate of Paul Mellon, and small handwritten pencil name "Hatfield" on front fly. Laid in is a letter from Mellon's assistant returning the book to the daughter of the man who gave it to him many years before.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Garnett, David. THE GRASSHOPPERS COME. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-101 [102-104: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], six woodcut illustrations by R. A. Garnett, original mottled black and maroon cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, t.e.g., bottom edge untrimmed. First edition, trade issue. ". bizarre . tells of the ordeal of an airman stranded alone and injured in a strange desert." - Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 80. Striking illustrations. Bleiler (1948), p. 123. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with sunned spine panel and neat internal tape reinforcements at spine ends and corner tips. (#159034)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: In Mylar cover. Out of print and scarce in dust jacket this fine. Illustrated with R.A. Garnett woodcuts. Binding is cloth boards.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
GARNETT, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, special signed issue. Small octavo. 101pp. Yellow bevelled cloth boards. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with wood engravings by Garnett. Spine is lightly toned else a near fine copy, with the text very fresh and clean. Special signed issue limited to 210 numbered copies Signed by David Garnett. A fantasy title. Bleiler. *Checklist of Science Fiction* (1948), p.123.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
David Garnett. The Grasshopper's Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$115.44 + shipping
Description: The first edition of this early work by David Garnett in the original dust wrapper. First edition of The Grasshopper's Come by David Garnett in the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper.An early novel by the author. Garnett was an award winning English writer and publisher of the twentieth century. He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 'Lady into Fox' (1922). He was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group.Illustrated with six wood engravings by David Garnett's wife, Ray Garnett. Collated, complete. In the original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and light bumping to the extremities. There is some light spotting to the fore edge. The dust wrapper is slightly worn to the extremities with some small closed tears and creases, and some age toning. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
GARNETT, David.. The Grasshoppers Come.. London: Chatto & Windus,, 1931.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 101 pp. Near fine in full yellow buckram with gold lettering to spine. t.e.g. No dust jacket. One 200 (of 210) numbered copies SIGNED by Garnett.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. Limited Edition Signed by David Garnett, the son-in-law of Vanessa Bell and nephew of Virginia Woolf. A lovely copy in the publisher's original canary yellow cloth covered boards, gilt lettered on the spine. Number 36 of a total of 210 cc. t.e.g. Pages uncut. Small 8vo. 101 pp. An odd story indeed by the author of, Aspects of Love and The Essential T.E. Lawrence.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
GARNETT, David. The Grasshoppers Come. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$173.16 + shipping
Description: First edition. Small 8vo. (viii), 101, (1) pp. Publisher's patterned paper boards, gilt lettered to the spine, inscribed by Garnett on the front free endpaper, pencilled inscription at the rear (presumably in the recipient's hand) stating that the book was "Inscribed at Hilton Hall [Garnett's residence] May 21st 1966". Very good.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Garnett, David. The Grasshoppers Come. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, no. 167 of 210 copies, signed by the author. Six woodcut illustrations by R. A. Garnett. viii, 101 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A beautiful and exotic tale of an airplane crash by novelist and critic David Garnett (1892-1981), son of Constance Garnett, a member of the Bloomsbury set, and Literary Editor for The New Statesman and Nation in the 1930s. Other notable works by Garnett include Lady into Fox (1922) and a sequence of autobiographies. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 80; Bleiler (1948), p. 123 Original yellow cloth over bevelled boards, t.e.g., others uncut. Some slight soiling to boards, else fine Six woodcut illustrations by R. A. Garnett. viii, 101 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, no. 167 of 210 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.