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Price: US$44.20 + shipping
Description: Poor copy lacking the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Provenance; from the library of Elizabeth Greenhill with the owner's bookplate. Series; Bodley booklets. Physical description; 52 p. ; 17 cm. Subjects; Beerbohm, Max Sir (1872-1956). Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: Poor copy lacking the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Provenance; from the library of Elizabeth Greenhill with the owner's bookplate. Series; Bodley booklets. Physical description; 52 p. ; 17 cm. Subjects; Beerbohm, Max Sir (1872-1956). Genre; Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Bodley Booklets Number One. Front wrapper detached, chipping along edges of both wrappers, chips along the length of the spine, Fair. Preserved in brown folding box and Good slipcase with wear and spots.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Max Beerbohm. The Happy Hypocrite. A fairy tale for tired men (Bodley Booklets. no. 1.). , 1897.
Price: US$126.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: John Lane Bodeley Head soft cover true first editiomn and state of max Beerbohms first book in america withe period on front cover after No: 1. Whole book encased in brown outer cased covering with tile on spine. rare and collectable
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Beerbohm, Max. The Happy Hypocrite; A Fairy Tale For Tired Men. John Lane, London, 1897.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 53 pages. 16.5 x 13 cm. Number One of the Bodley Booklets printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press in Springfield, Mass. BOMBACE A16. Front cover of the pictorial wrappers chipped at edges with some loss. Interior clean, housed in brown cloth chemise and slipcase. Orig. tan decorated wrappers housed in half brown morocco and very good brown cloth slipcase with raised bands and spine lettered in gilt. Slight loss at head of leather slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Beerbohm, Max. The Happy Hypocrite. John Lane, The Bodley Head, New York and London, 1897.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Bodley Booklets No. 1, printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press Springfield, Mass., with colophon date of December 1896. 53, [3]pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Bound in three quarters blue morocco and blue cloth, t.e.g. for Asprey, with stamp "Governor Charles Edison Library" on back pastedown. Fine First edition, Bodley Booklets No. 1, printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press Springfield, Mass., with colophon date of December 1896.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Bodley Booklets No. 1, printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press with colophon date of December 1896. 1 vols. 12mo. Beerbohm's First Book. Beerbohm's first book. Bambace A16 Original green wrappers, upper wrapper detached and slightly chipped along top edge, edges and spine a little faded; otherwise a very good copy of a fragile book -- the author's first in a brown quarter morocco slipcase First edition, Bodley Booklets No. 1, printed by Will Bradley at the Wayside Press with colophon date of December 1896.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: 52,[3]pp. Small octavo (17 x 13.5 cm). Original stiff printed pictorial wrapper, edges untrimmed. Narrow 4 cm loss along the top of the extreme overlap fore-edge of upper wrapper, trace of foxing along lower fore-edge of upper wrapper, tiny early mend to clean split at crown of lower joint, but an unusually nice copy, enclosed in a half morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition of Beerbohm's second accessible separate prose publication, published as Bodley Booklets #1. Designed by Will Bradley and printed at the Wayside Press in Springfield, MA. GALLATIN & OLIVER 3. BAMBACE A16. NCBEL IV:1001.
Seller: William Reese Company - Literature, ABAA, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With hand-written 22/23 line letter signed with initials by Beerbohm and written, with small inked cursive lettering, from Rapallo, Italy, his home at Villino Chiaro, dated March 9, with no year but either 1897 or 1896, as the letter is regarding the preparation of the publication of this work. 12mo. 16.5 by 13 cm. 53, [2] pp. Original wraps bound in. The first of the Bodley booklets, so stated on the wrap front cover as well as the title page. Large dampstain affecting more or less all pages but generally faint other than a few early and a few final leaves. Leaves all have some moderate rippling undoubtedly caused by the same exposure to moisture. Front board has starting in upper one to two inches. A few faint stain marks on red cloth. Notwithstanding these flaws, the book remains an attractive copy, in our view, even without the all important Beerbohm letter. The modern custom clamshell has no issues Half Morocco. Cloth on boards. Modern leatherette and cloth clamshell box (outer material is a leatherette)
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
BEERBOHM, Max and others. The Bodley Booklets: Complete set, including The Happy Hypocrite. , 1897.
Price: US$1591.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue. Bodley Booklets, No. 1. New York and London: John Lane, A very good copy, wrappers slightly chipped as usual, and with just a little wear and soiling. This is the earlier state of the wrappers, with the full stop on the front cover. Beerbohm sent Wilde a copy on his release from prison, and Wilde responded enthusiastically and gratefully in a beautiful letter (Holland p. 856) ?I used to think gratitude a heavy burden for one to carry. Now I know that it is something that makes the heart lighter. The Happy Hypocrite is a wonderful and beautiful story? Wilde disliked the ?cynical directness of the name ? though I know what joy there is in picking up a brickbat and wearing it as a buttonhole ? The implied and accepted recognition of Dorian Gray in the story cheers me. I had always been disappointed that my story had suggested no other work of art in others ? on reading your surprising and to me quite novel story how useless it is for gaolers to deprive an artist of pen and ink. One?s work goes on just the same, with entrancing variations.?CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)Housed with the following in a smart modern folding box, to make a complete set of the Bodley Booklets, as below: ?Richard de Lyrienne? [i.e. David HODGE and George MATHESON]. The Quest of the Gilt-Edged Girl by Richard de Lyrienne. Bodley Booklets No. 2. 1897 SHARP, Evelyn. The Making of a Schoolgirl. Bodley Booklets No. 2 [sic.]. 1897 STREET, G.S. Some Notes of a Struggling Genius. Bodley Booklets No. 4. 1898. GRAHAME, Kenneth. The Headswoman. Bodley Booklets No. 5. 1898. ROLFE, Frederick, as ?Baron Corvo? Stories Toto Told me. Bodley Booklets No. 6. 1899. CHAR(13) + CHAR(10)The Le Gallienne parody is a rather lame affair, by two Glasgow journalists. Everyone of the period comes in for a tease, including Beerbohm repeatedly: when the narrator is being tried for stealing ladies? underwear from a washing line (for younger readers, this was once a common crime), Beerbohm gives evidence, but the judge deems him too young to take the oath. Evelyn Sharp?s contribution is the longest, and has recently been recognised as a hidden classic, following its republication by OUP in 1989, ?a revolutionary reworking of the school story, an ironic probing of what had been a patriarchal genre? (?Studies in Popular Culture?, 1994). Only twenty years old at the time, Sharp was to become an influential suffragist and pacifist. Kenneth Grahame?s The Headswoman is a brilliant New Woman tale of the first female executioner, her effciency and charm leading the villains to refuse to have their heads lopped by any other: ?the fellows as is told off for execution come skipping along in the morning, like a lot of lambs in Maytime. and then the fun there is on the scaffold! The jokes, the back-answers, the repartees!? Stories Toto Told Me reprints the extraordinary Baron Corvo?s contributions to The Yellow Book. Some slight dust-staining to wrappers and crumpling to the overlapping fore-edges, but an excellent set.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom