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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Richmond:Hogarth Press. 1923. 25pp. 1st edition. Illustrated with boards decorated by Vanessa Bell, and frontispiece and 2 illustrations by Duncan Grant. Hardcover, in fair condition. Ex-library, distinguished by a Harvard University Eliot House bookplate to front board, as well as a smaller secondary owners bookplate. Boards are soiled and worn, with edges chipped and worn to boards. Spine strip is gone. Old damp stain to the spine and bottom edge of rear board. Internally, aside from the 2 bookplates, no other owners marks or signatures. End pages are soiled, with damp stain showing on the bottom and binding edge of the inside boards.That same damp stain does continue through the book at the bottom of the pages only. The binding is still holding with hinges still intact. Overall, in fair condition.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.80 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original decorative boards, 25 pages, rear cover slightly dusty, small area of scuffing to upper edge of front, head and tail of spine a little worn, a very good copy. Published in December 1923 at 4s6d in an edition of 400 copies only. Frontispiece and two illustrations by Duncan Grant. According to a note on the unillustrated dust jacket (not present here), the "decorations and cover design" are by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, but Quentin Bell in his Bloomsbury (N.Y., Basic Books, 1968, p.86) attributes the cover to Vanessa Bell alone. The Sussex Ledger shows a total of 311 copies sold by 18 June 1926. In her diary Virginia notes about this book: "But I must descent to the basement, & see whats doing with Clive`s cover; which Leonard does for 8 hours daily." (Diary for 3 November 1923). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050
Seller: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, Germany
Price: US$364.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 400 copies printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Royal 8vo (257 x 186mm): 25,[1]pp, with frontispiece and one further drawing by Duncan Grant and one figure by Vanessa Bell. Original pictorial boards printed in black; wanting the scarce plain cream dust jacket. Provenance: H. Balfour Gardiner, with his blue ink stamp to front fly-leaf. Very light occasional spotting, but an excellent example, securely bound and generally clean throughout. Woolmer 27. Laing A8. At the turn of the twentieth century, Bell was prominent in the group of friends who met on Thursday evenings at 46 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury, including Virginia Stephen (later Woolf) and her sister Vanessa, who married Bell in 1907 and illustrated this and many other books published by the Woolfs at the Hogarth Press. Henry Balfour Gardiner (1877-1950) was a British musician and composer and member of the Frankfurt Group. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Quarto. 25pp. Original paper boards. Cover design by Vanessa Bell. Frontispiece and two drawings by Duncan Grant. Slight erosion at the spine ends, corners a little bumped, and some modest age-toning, a nice, very good or better copy without dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: One of 400 copies handprinted by Leonard and Virginia Woolf "with decorations and a cover design by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell", although Woolmer notes that Quentin Bell's biography attributes the cover solely to Vanessa. A very good copy, with unopened leaves, gutter strained in two places; dust jacket has 3/4" loss to spine, split on the folds. Woolmer 27.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$640.43 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 400 copies. Small 4to. 25, (1) pp. Publisher's white boards, the upper cover with a design in black by Vanessa Bell, dust jacket plain but for lettering tot he upper panel. Frontispiece and 2 illustrations in the text. The rare and fragile jacket worn to the spine and edges with some neat tissue repairs on the verso, some tanning to the spine, the book itself lovely and bright. Woolmer, 27.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Bell, Clive. The Legend of Monte Della Sibilla. Hogarth Press, London, 1923.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: One of 400 hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Original printed boards, one gathering sewn out of order, otherwise a fine copy in rare unworn jacket lacking a small piece on the spine."With decorations and a cover design by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell", although Woolmer notes that Quentin Bell's biography attributes the cover solely to Vanessa. Woolmer 27.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3202.16 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, fontispiece and head- and tail-piece illustrations by Duncan Grant, some very faint spots, pp. 25, royal 8vo, original white boards, the upper board with a design by Duncan Grant printed in black, a few small marks and some light wear, including a little splitting to surface paper at head of backstrip, slight bump to top corner of upper board, the front pastedown with the bookplate of Lytton Strachey (se below), ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal to facing flyleaf (see also below), edges and endpapers very lightly spotted, dustjacket a little browned and chipped, with Bagenal's note regarding provenance to front flap, good. The copy of the author's friend, Lytton Strachey, with his bookplate (a design by Carrington) to the front pastedown - a superb Bloomsbury Group association. The subsequent association with artist Barbara Bagenal provides further links to both Bell and Carrington; she, neé Hiles, was a friend of the latter from the Slade, and then Bell's 'devoted companion' (ODNB) for the final two decades of his life. Her note records that it was given to her by John Russell (the art critic, one presumes) in 1968. (Woolmer 27)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom