Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 1930 edition of JM Dent & Sons, green boards, spine still gold and easily readable, spine bumped and faded at edges and four corners and several stains on the back board
Seller: Old Fox Books, Annapolis, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Very good. Spine faded and light staining of covers. Former owner's name on front free end sheet. Text cracked after first gathering but still holding. Pages lightly toned and page XXIII split along hinge Pink cloth with gilt lettering. T.E.G
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: With illustrations by Arthur Rackham, including 12 captioned colour plates with tissue guards, and 90 black and white drawings. Dark green cloth with gilt titles and decorations on front, spine and back. Endpapers illustrated in dark green on lighter green paper. Untrimmed page edges. Red ribbon marker. Condition: Edgewear, corners and spine ends bumped. Old damp stains to cloth. Gilt still bright. Browning to half title. Damp staining to title page. All plates complete. Inscription dated 89 to half title. Size: 8 x 6 inches / 20 x 15 cm. 636 pages. Weight: 855g.
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Thomas Ingoldsby. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels.. J, 1898.
Price: US$61.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1898. J. M. Dent and Co. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles and decoration on green boards, Ex Libris. Label inside front board. Internally pages are clean with clear bright text and colourful plates. Page edges darkened. Front endpaper detached. Endpapers heavily tanned. Some foxing. Rough cut pages. Spine cracked. Top edge gilt. 8x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Description: First Rackham illustrated edition hard back binding in half cherry red leather, the spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second, tooling to the others, strawberry cloth sides, top edge gilt, pale blue and rose marble paper end sheets. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains (xxiii), 638 pp with 12 tissue guarded colour plates, 90 monochrome text figures throughout. Front board detached. Member of the P.B.F.A. ILLUSTRATED (Picture Book)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Ingoldsby, Thomas & Rackham, Arthur.. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels.. J. M. Dent, 1898.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Illus. with 12 cold. plates, incl. frontis. and many b.w. drawings. 8vo. dec. cl. t.e.g. Edges a little rubbed, front bd. creased, hinges a little weak, occasional foxing, else contents generally v.g.
Seller: Allsop Antiquarian Booksellers PBFA, Warwick, United Kingdom
Thomas Ingoldsby. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels. J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1898.
Price: US$99.50 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Spine,cover and edges shows wear. Loose hinge. Title pages shows foxing. Pages shows minor tanning.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Thomas Ingoldsby. The Ingoldsby Legends. J. M. Dent & Co., 1898.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Green cloth boards with gilt illustrations have been rebacked to style with matching plain green cloth with original spine laid in at front endpapers. Gilt titling and illustrations at front and back cover are rubbed but still bright and lovely. Boards are a bit scratched, rubbed, and soiled with bumped corners, lower edges shelf worn, and edge of front cover a bit frayed on lower half. A damp stain or other stain at top of front cover edge near title. Brittle endpapers are age-toned with chips and a closed 1" torn triangle to rear free endpaper. Previous owner's name in ink to FFEP, dated 1900. Small Brentano's label to rear pastedown. Interior is age-toned but rather clean, with no obvious foxing.
Seller: Owl Pen Books, Greenwich, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1 ST RACKHAM BRITISH EDITION hinges cracked text block firm good cover and spine. gold gilt lettering and illustrations to front cover and spine. gold gilt illustrations to rear cover. deckeling to edges. green illustrations to light blue endpapers. light wear to endpapers. pages are very clean. 12 full page color illustrations with tissue guards .90 black and white illustrations throughout. DATE PUBLISHED: 1898 EDITION: FIRST ED 636
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth with gilt titles and design on cover. 638pp wih 12pp colour and over 70 in b&w. Minor corner bumps
Seller: valley books, Holton, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Price: US$118.52 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth hard cover with some cover wear including bumped corners, worn spine ends and rubbing of external spine hinges. Perhaps a rather tired book with slightly loose and exposed internal hinges. Discrete inscription inside front cover dated 1902, xxiii, 638 untrimmed pages with introduction by F J Simmons, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 12 full page colour plates most with tissue guards and spotting of first tissue guard. This 1st edition published in 1898 is in reasonably good condition.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First thus edition containing the illustrations of Arthur Rackham. Green cloth stamped in gilt with titling and illustrations on the cover and the spine. Pale green illustrated end papers. Gilt top edge with rough cut fore and bottom edges. Some of the pages have been carelessly cut. The book is tightly bound and firm, except for the first free endpaper which is detached and present. All corners are somewhat softened and rounded, with a distincly bumped upper front corner. The title page is darkly foxed, but the remainder is bright and clean. Twelve full color illustrations with tissue guards and numerous full page and in text black and white illustrations. These poems and tales originally printed in magazines staring in the mid 19th century were later compiled into omnibus form. These were based on real folktales and legends, but are changed and embellished by Ingoldsby. xxiii, 638 pp. Antiquarian, Fiction, Folklore, Folktales, Parody, Humor, Omnibus edition, Rackham. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Sea Chest Books, Tucumcari, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered and decorated green cloth. Top edge gilt. 12 plate in colour. and many other illustrations. Inscription on reverse of free endpaper dated 1898 with offset. Foxing to title page and contnets page but o/w a very nice clean copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
INGOLDSBY, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends: Or Mirth and Marvels. J. M. Dent 1898, London, 1898.
Price: US$161.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition Thus with Arthur Rackham illustrations. xxiii, 638 pp. Publisher's green pictorial cloth with decorative gilt design to upper cover & spine; pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Cloth slightly worn at extremities, and a few minor marks to boards. Heavy spottingto prelims and fore-edge but otherwise internally clean. Decorative old bookplate to front paste-down. Colour frontispiece and eleven additional colour plates by Arthur Rackham, as well as numerous black & white in-text illustrations. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Ingoldsby, Thomas & Rackham, Arthur. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. J. M. Dent, 1898.
Price: US$168.20 + shipping
Description: THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH AND MARVELS, Dent, 1898, first edition thus with the Arthur Rackham illustrations, 90 black & white and 12 in full color, very slight wear to the spine extremities, else a bright vg+ copy stamped in gold-gilt pictorial cloth with some slight wear.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Ingoldsby, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels. J.M. Dent & Co., London, 1898.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated in color and black & white by Arthur Rackham. Original gilt-lettered and printed green cloth. Rubbing to the extremities, chips to the spine ends, and small chips to the front endpaper. A very good copy.
Seller: Argonaut Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition. Measures approximately 5.75 x 8 inches. Twelve color plates by Arthur Rackham. All are present with the corresponding tissue guards and in very good condition. Boards are covered in olive green cloth with bright gold lettering and illustrations on the spine and covers. Mild rubbing and bumping on the corners and spine ends. Spine is tight. Hinges are intact. First and last page have moderate tanning. Title page, the first page of contents, two facing pages, and page ends have mild to heavy foxing. All other pages are clean, although there may be a stray foxing spot here or there. No writing inside. No funky odors.
Seller: Bookworm and Apple, Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Sturdily bound in publisher's dark green cloth with bright gilt lettering and decorations on the front boards and on the spine. Wear & fraying to the top and bottom of the spine ends and to the corners. Printed on delicate deckle-edged paper. With 12 color plates with tissue guards and numerous black & white drawings throughout the text. With charming endpapers and an inked presentation and date on the top of the front endpaper. The hinges are tender and the book is very clean throughout with some pages carelessly opened. A collectible copy with all plates present with their tissue guards. Ingoldsby Legends(full title:The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels) is a collection of myths, legends,ghost storiesand poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually apen-nameof anEnglishclergyman namedRichard Harris Barham.The legends were first printed during 1837 as a regular series in the magazineBentley's Miscellanyand later inNew Monthly Magazine.[1]They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published in 1840, 1842 and 1847 byRichard Bentley. They remained popular during the 19th century, when they ran through many editions. They were illustrated by artists includingJohn Leech,George Cruikshank,John Tenniel, andArthur Rackham(1898 edition). (Wikipedia) First edition, thus, published by Dent in 1898 with the Arthur Rackham illustrations.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo (20.5cm). In original green cloth, stamped in gold on boards and spine; pictorial endpapers, designed by Rackham; [i]-[xiv], [1]-638pp; with 12 inserted color illustrations and tissue guards, and numerous additional black-and-white illustrations. Bright and straight, with minor shelfwear, spine lightly rubbed with two small spots of discoloration at base, both hinges cracked through but holding; frontispiece detached; internally clean: just Very Good.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Ingoldsby, Thomas & Rackham, Arthur. THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS. J. M. Dent, 1898.
Price: US$290.00 + shipping
Description: THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS OR MIRTH AND MARVELS, Dent, 1898, first edition thus with the Arthur Rackham illustrations, 90 black & white and 12 in full color, a bright vg copy stamped in gold-gilt pictorial cloth with some slight wear.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
INGOLDSBY, Thomas. The Ingoldsby Legends or, Mirth & Marvels. Dent, London, 1898.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated by by Arthur Rackham with 12 color plates protected with tissue, and 90 in-text figures, pictorial end papers. 638pp. 8vo, original green gilt pictorial cloth, t.e.g., uncut. London: J.M. Dent, 1898. First edition. Fine. Fine, bright copy, in a 1/4 green morocco clamshell case. Latimore & Haskell 11. Humorous parodies of medieval folklore and poetry.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$640.96 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st Edition. 638pp. Octavo. Handsomely rebound in a rich green leather with gold gilt lettering and decorations stamped to the front, back and spine; the decorations correspond to some of the legends. Five decorative raised bands to the spine. All edges gilt. Gold gilt inside dentelles. Hand-sewn headbands. Marble endpapers. 12 full page colour plates and 90 black and white illustrations throughout the text. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Inner contents clean and binding tight; overall, a beautiful book in near fine condition. near fine An attractive book notable for both Rackham's fantastical illustrations and the detailed binding. A collection of myths and legends by Ingoldsby--the pen name for an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham--is in actuality quite humorous, with parodies of medieval folklore and poetry wonderfully brought to life by Rackham's illustrations. A lovely and unique copy.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada