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Cadmus & Harmonia [John Buchan, Baron Tweedsmuir]. The Island of Sheep. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1920.

Price: US$54.67 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Title and copyright page both with 1920 date. Boards with slight age darkening, edges rubbed with unfortunate chip at lower edge of front board. Spine edges rubbed, minor bumping at head & heel; binding sound. Large stain throughout book at lower page edges, extending a few inches up throughout text. Previous owner has written author's real name below his pen name on title page. A reading copy. DJ not clipped, edges rubbed with minor chipping; very minor loss at top edge of rear panel, else complete & whole. DJ spine with minor staining. Photographs available upon request. Political writings, sharing same title as the author's 1936 work of fiction; completely different book, written with his wife. Size: 12mo - 6¾" - 7¾" Tall

Seller: Small World Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

[Buchan, John and Susan] Cadmus and Harmonia. The Island of Sheep. Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, 1920.

Price: US$56.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Lacks jacket. Edges lightly foxed, Christmas gift tag to Mrs. Dulles laid in - probably Eleanor Lansing Dulles, wife of Robert Lansing: these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him. 1920 Hard Cover. 170 pp. Yellow cloth spine, illustrated paper over boards, black titles. A political book pseudonymously co-authored by John Buchan and his wife Susan. Not to be confused with John Buchan's 1936 novel of the same name. The latter was published in the United States as The Man from the Norlands. Buchan was best known for his novel The Thirty-Nine Steps.

Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.

Cadmus & Harmonia (John Buchan & Susan Buchan). The Island of Sheep. Houghton Mifflin, 1920.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, with matching dates on title and copyright pages. Very good or better book in similar dust jacket. Text is unmarked. Pages are bright, with foxing to edges. Paper boards are clean and quite attractive. Dust jacket is only lightly rubbed with rubbing to corners. A nice copy overall.

Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.

Cadmus and Harmonia (pseudonym of John Buchan and his daughter Susan). The Island of Sheep. Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1920.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Cadmus and Harmonia (pseudonym of John Buchan and his wife Susan). The Island of Sheep. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920. First U.S. edition (published in the UK in 1919). Small octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [1-3] 4-170 [171: blank] [172: printer's imprint]. Original pictorial paper-covered boards with yellow cloth shelf-back. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. A lovely book, especially in this condition. #1195. $200. Blanchard A48. Not a novel so much as an informal philosophical colloquium concerned with political and cultural issues of the day. Some twenty individuals of varied background and perspective converse at a house party in Scotland. Appearing right after the end of World War I, the novel strikes a general tone that would now strike most readers as remarkably cool and collected.

Seller: Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Cadmus and Harmonia (John and Susan Buchan). The Island of Sheep. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.

Price: US$234.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VG- first US edition of Buchan's discourse on the politics of his day presented in the guise of a country-house novel set on a Scottish island. The US edition is scarce; the UK edition is virtually unobtainable. 170 pp Illustrated paper-covered boards; mustard yellow spine with black lettering. The corners are worn and the spine is lightly sunned. One of the two front fly-leaves is missing and the other has an ownership inscription. Internally the book is bright and clean.

Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Cadmus and Harmonia (John and Susan Buchan). The Island of Sheep. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.

Price: US$292.54 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VG first US edition. Blanchard A48 note. Written by John & Susan Buchan this is a political symposium in the guise of a country house novel. The UK edition is virtually unobtainable and the US edition is also scarce. 170pp Light blue paper-covered boards with bright blue lettering and black and yellow silhouette illustration. The corners are lightly rubbed and the fly-leaf has a tiny remnant of some sort of adhesive label. Otherwise very good throughout.

Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Cadmus and Harmonia (John and Susan Buchan). The Island of Sheep. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.

Price: US$292.54 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VG first US edition with a facsimile dustwrapper. Blanchard A48 note. Written by John & Susan Buchan this is a political symposium in the guise of a country house novel. The UK edition is virtually unobtainable and the US edition is also scarce. 170pp Light blue paper-covered boards with bright blue lettering and black and yellow silhouette illustration. The spine is a little darkened but otherwise the book is in very good condition. There is an inscription on the fly-leaf and also a small private library label. The book comes with a good quality facsimile dustwrapper.

Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Cadmus & Harmonia (John and Susan Buchan). The Island of Sheep. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.

Price: US$292.54 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VG- first US edition. Blanchard A48 note. Written by John & Susan Buchan this is a political symposium in the guise of a country house novel. The UK edition is virtually unobtainable and the US edition is also rare. 170pp Light blue paper-covered boards with bright blue lettering and black and yellow silhouette illustration. Yellow cloth spine with black lettering. Internally very bright with slight creasing to a few top corners near the front. 2 leaves have ragged edges, almost certainly the result of a mishap when slitting the page edges when new. There is a name on the front fly-leaf. Externally there are light damp stains on the front board and spine.

Seller: Crask Books, Loughborough, United Kingdom

Cadmus & Harmonia ( John Buchan ). The Island of Sheep. Houghton and Mifflin, 1920.

Price: US$295.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: F. Fine Condition Hardback with yellow cloth spine and blue pictorial paper boards. Pseudonymous book by prolific Author and Canadian Prime Minister, and a Roman a Clef of post World War One Politics. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 170 pages

Seller: Book Gallery // Mike Riley, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.

CADMUS and Harmonia [John Buchan and Susan Buchan]. The Island of Sheep. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1920.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First American edition. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards. Two ink spots on front board, corners a little rubbed, about very good lacking dustwrapper. Uncommon pseudonymous Buchan title.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

[BUCHAN, John] Cadmus and Harmonia. The Island of Sheep. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1920.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Original illustrated boards, cloth spine, original illustrated dustjacket. The First American edition of this early Buchan title written with his wife, Susan. Nearly impossible Buchan title to be found in dustjacket. The book is unfortunately not an adventure novel, but a fictional examination of current events, in which "politicians, soldiers, labor leaders - American, French, and English in nationality. brilliantly discuss the most interesting current problems, the Peace Treaty, League of Nations, labor reform, etc." Near Fine, some soiling to top page edge, in Very Good plus dustjacket, few nicks to spine ends and flap corners.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.