Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$9.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Previous owner's ink inscription. 1925 edition. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones a Foundling. George G. Harrap & Company, London, 1925.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Spine is a little faded and worn at the ends, hinges starting
Seller: Robert S. Brooks, Bookseller, Bristol, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original navy blue cloth on boards with gilt titles and embossed publishers' logo on front cover. 1/8" tear in cloth at bottom spine edge of back cover. 1/4" tear at top of hinge edge of FFEP. Front hinge starting. Originally published in 1742, this was Henry Fielding's first novel, and one of the first novels in the English language. It is described by Fielding as an "comic epic poem in prose" about a good-natured footman's trip home from London with his friend, an absent-minded parson. 310 pp. Size: 5 x 7 1/2 Inches
Seller: Dave Shoots, Bookseller, Saint John, NB, Canada
Fielding, Henry:. History of Tom Jones. A Foundling.. London, George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1925.
Price: US$17.81 + shipping
Description: 728 S., Großformat 25 cm, Ganzleinen, mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, goldgeprägtem Ornament, Goldkopfschnitt, mit farbigen Illustrationen auf Tafeln. Illustrations by Rowland Wheelwright. Seiten am Vorder- und Fußschnitt unbeschnitten. Text in Englisch. Exemplar mit Namenseintrag von alter Hand auf dem vorderen Vorsatz, Vorsätze etwas nachgedunkelt, insg. gut erhalten.
Seller: Bärbel Hoffmann, Kall, Germany
Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.. George G Harrap & Co., 1925.
Price: US$24.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Not dated but about 1925. 2000 copies. Dark blue strong cloth lettered in gold. Nice clean bright tight setgenerally presenting very well but with slight wear to some spine ends. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY GB £8. Packed weight 3999g.
Seller: Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976), WINTERTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$26.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION. This copy SIGNED by illustrator Rowland Wheelwright in black ink on limitation page, as called for. Hand-numbered "310" of 1000 copies. Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright. With all 16 full-page colour plates, including frontispiece, as issued. Limitation page notes: "Edition limited to One Thousand copies for England and One Thousand copies for the United States, of which this is No. 310 of the English issue" (signed below "R. Wheelwright"). Several pages unopened. Bound in publisher's original brown buckram with gilt-ruled border to front board, gilt lettering on dark brown leather label to spine, top edge gilt, both fore-edge & lower edge uncut. Slight handling wear, hinges cracked & tender (but holding), mild toning to endpapers, some small margin tears (not affecting text, which are due to pages being cut open roughly), otherwise overall a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 728pp. Heavy large book. Scarce signed copy. SB-14.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. George G. Harrap & Co. , Ltd, 1925.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 728 pages; Signed by Illustrator
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 839 of 1000 copies of the English issue. Signed by Wheelwright on the limitation page. Ex libris with bookplate mostly removed from the front pastedown (see photo). The binding is tight, corners sharp. Some light handling and soiling on the boards, toning along the spine. Text and images unmarked. Inventory number written on the rear pastedown. Gilt top edge lightly rubbed, other edges untrimmed. 8vo. 725pp.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES. George G. Harrap & Company, London, 1925.
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 728 pages; Copy #852 of 1000 from the English edition. Signed by the illustrator, Rowland Wheelwright. The binding has soiling along with some light rubbing and some wear. A nice solid copy. Limited copy. ; Signed by Illustrator
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1925.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No 364 of a limited edition of 1000. 728pp; illustrated by coloured plates, all present. Signed by the illustrator. Brown. buckram-covered boards with gilt decoration. Leather label on the spine, some rubbing; wear at the spine ends. Previous owner's small sticker on the front pastedown, gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Top edge gilt, leading and bottom edges uncut. Natural ageing to the paper. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics.
Seller: Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA, HINDHEAD, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Description: pp. 728. Coloured frontispiece and 15 coloured plates. Original cloth with very faint silverfish abrasion at the fore-edges of the boards, in all other ways a very nice copy, uncut and top edge gilt. `
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones A Foundling. George G. Harrap & Co, 1925.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paneled calf, five raised hubs, decorated end-papers, 728pp., this is #802 of 1,000 copies made for England - there were also a thousand for USA. Signed by illustrator beneath the Limited Edition number. Most of this edition were not bound in leather but this appears to be original binding - full leather. No writing in the book - not even an owners name. Full refund if not satisfied.
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illustrated with color plates. Covers partially discolored due to dampstains. Few pages foxed. Text in english Size: 8vo.
Seller: Buenos Aires Libros, Buenos Aires, BA, Argentina
Price: US$160.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A limited edition of this comic novel by Henry Fielding, signed by the illustrator Rowland Wheelwright. Limited illustrated edition of The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding in the original publisher's cloth binding.Signed to the limitation by the illustrator. Limited to one thousand copies of which this is number 882.Illustrated with sixteen colour plates from paintings by Rowland Wheelwright. Collated, complete.This comic novel was one of the earliest English works to be classified as a novel. It is a widely appreciated and often considered Fielding's best work.Prior owner's book plate to the front pastedown. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owner's book plate to the front pastedown. The hinges are slightly strained. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with some occasional spotting, particularly to the endpapers. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling. George G Harrap & Co., London, 1925.
Price: US$192.40 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A limited edition print of Fielding's comic novel Tom Jones. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. With sixteen colour plate illustrations by Rowland Wheelwright. Limited edition, number 707 of one thousand copies published for sale in England. Signed by Rowland Wheelwright, illustrator. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling is a comic novel by the playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is both a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. Alongside Samuel Richardson's Clarissa, Tom Jones is one of the first works of prose describable as a novel. Although the novel is lengthy, it is highly organised. Coleridge argued that it has 'three most perfect plots ever planned.' It is generally regarded as Fielding's greatest book. In original brown cloth binding with gilt stamped detailing to the boards and spine. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Offsetting to endpapers, worse to rear. Frontispiece is slightly disbound at the bottom of page, otherwise firmly bound internally. Pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Fielding, Henry. The History Of Tom Jones A Foundling. George G. Harrap & Co. [1925], London, 1925.
Price: US$216.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of one-thousand copies for the English market. Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright. Bound in half blue leather and blue cloth with rules in gilt on the covers, the spine stamped in gilt, and five raised bands on the spine. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper. Minor wear to the corners, otherwise fine condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$481.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 767 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator and issued in England, with a further 1,000 copies issued in the US. A beautifully illustrated edition of Fielding's masterpiece, which, along with Joseph Andrews, "established the tradition of the comic novel in English" (ODNB). An experimental writer who thoroughly ruffled the feathers of his contemporary literary establishment, Fielding is now "generally agreed to be an innovating master of the highest originality. He himself believed he was 'the founder of a new province of writing'. In breaking away from the epistolary method of his contemporary Richardson, and others, he devised what he described as 'comic epics in prose', which may be characterized as the first modern novels in English, leading straight to the works of Dickens and Thackeray" (Drabble, p. 360). Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion To English Literature, 6th edn, 2000. Large octavo (233 x 157 mm). Twentieth-century blue morocco, spine with raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt, covers bordered with a single gilt fillet, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed with several uncut gatherings. With 16 colour plates by Wheelwright including frontispiece. With original cloth cover panel and spine pasted to two rear binder's blanks. A couple of marks to leather, light browning to half-title and final leaf, otherwise internally bright and clean. An attractive, generously-margined copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$962.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 942 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator and issued in England, with a further 1,000 issued in the US. An attractive edition of the great 18th century novel, handsomely bound by the leading English bookbinders Bayntun-Riviere. An experimental writer who thoroughly ruffled the feathers of his contemporary literary establishment, Fielding is now "generally agreed to be an innovating master of the highest originality. He himself believed he was 'the founder of a new province of writing'. In breaking away from the epistolary method of his contemporary Richardson, and others, he devised what he described as 'comic epics in prose', which may be characterized as the first modern novels in English, leading straight to the works of Dickens and Thackeray" (Drabble, p. 360). Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion To English Literature, 6th edn, 2000. Large octavo (233 x 157 mm). Mid-20th century brown morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine lettered in gilt, gilt in compartments, gilt panel to covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16 colour plates by Wheelwright including frontispiece, with tissue guards. Spine lightly sunned, couple of scratches to morocco, closed tear to limitation page expertly repaired, scattered light foxing; an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom