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DEFOE, Daniel, Kathleen Winifred Campbell (Edits),. THE LIFE AND STRANGE SUPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE OF YORK, MARINER.. Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald,, London,, 1929.

Price: US$207.93 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition. Hardback. 4to. pp 332. Original publishers black buckram, lettered silver at the spine with pictorial design in silver on the front cover. The text has been edited by Kathleen Campbell. 535 numbered copies have been issued, this being no. 123. 8 full page coloured pochoir plates. An important illustrated book - one of only a handful printed in England with colour stencilled illustrations - but with a somewhat dull text setting and second--best paper which together fail to match the quality of the illustrations. The binding too, almost always suffers, though in this respect this copy is better than most. F. McKnight Kauffer's illustrations, however produced at the Curwen Press, show the unparalleled richness of stencil gouache applied as colour solids. Inner hinge slightly cracked, spine darkened with small unobtrusive mark and small piece nipped from corner of endpaper, otherwise very good.

Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

Daniel Defoe. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner. Frederick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald, London, 1929.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: LIMITED EDITION. NUMBER 40 OF 535. Original blue cloth binding with an embossed art nouveau illustration to the front board. A thin line stain running from the top to the bottom of the rear board. Spine is slightly sunned with embossed gilt title. Rough cut page edges. Full page colored frontispiece. There are a number of beautiful full page colored art nouveau illustrations. A beautiful work of art. Size: 8.0" x 10.0" 1st Printing Language: eng 1st Printing

Seller: 12 Peers Fine Books, Toronto, ON, Canada

(Haslewood Books.) DEFOE (Daniel). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. [Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer and edited by Kathleen Campbell.]. Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1929.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Description: 506/500 COPIES (from an overall edition of 535 copies) printed by Glasgow University Press on all-rag paper, title-page vignette and 8 full-page hand-coloured pochoir illustrations by McKnight Kauffer, pp. [ii], 332, [iv], 4to, original slate-blue cloth, front board with silver-stamped McKnight Kauffer design, backstrip lettered in silver, board edges and backstrip slightly faded, endpapers lightly toned, untrimmed, good. The Times described McKnight Kauffer's illustrations as 'these very fresh and brilliant plates' while T.S. Eliot, an earlier collaborator, wrote 'I like the illustrations immensely, and some of them have a quality which reminds me of Chirico'. (Tucker 26)

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom

Daniel Defoe. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. Crown 4to, pp.332 + Note [+ plates], Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, London, `The Haslewood Books, 1929.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition hardcover, No. 142 of 535 copies printed at the Glasgow University Press in Monotype Scotch Roman on all rag paper. 8 full-page drawings and the title-page vignette by E. McKnight Kauffer coloured by hand through stencils at the Curwen Press

Seller: Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Defoe, Daniel & Kauffer, E. McKnight (Illus.). The Life And Strange Surprizing Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe Of York Mariner : One Of Only 35 Special Copies Signed By The Illustrator. Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, London, 1929.

Price: US$2534.11 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The First UK printing of this illustrated edition published by Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, London in 1929. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. The limited issue of only 35 copies signed by Kauffer to the limitation page, this one unnumbered. Printed on T. H. Saunders mould-made paper, and bound in quarter morocco. There was also a trade edition of 500 copies unsigned on normal paper and bound in cloth. Original blue quarter morocco, titles to spine silver, blue buckram boards with Kauffer's design in silver to the front board, edges untrimmed. The morocco spine is slightly sunned and rubbed. Internally, apart from some offsetting to the endpapers, the book is clean and the binding remains tight. Frontispiece and 7 hand coloured illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, using the pochoir process. This deluxe signed issue is rare, with only two copies recorded at auction in the past 50 years. Kauffer was born in the U.S.A. but settled in England in 1914. He was a member of both Wyndham Lewis's 'Group X' and the' Cumberland Market Group'. Kauffer's real genius was in advertising art; he produced seminal posters for the London Transport Board and for the Great Western Railway, as well as book jackets and illustrations. A very attractive production. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom

KAUFFER, E. McKnight (illus.); DEFOE, Daniel.. The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner.. London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1929, 1929.

Price: US$2923.98 + shipping

Description: Limited edition, number 280 of 500 unsigned, from a total edition of 535 numbered copies of which Nos. 1 to 35 are signed by the author and have been printed on T. H. Saunders mould-made paper. Kauffer was born in the United States but settled in England in 1914. He was a member of both Wyndham Lewis's Group X and the Cumberland Market Group. An accomplished painter, Kauffer's real genius was in advertising art; he produced seminal posters for the London Transport Board and for the Great Western Railway, as well as book jackets and illustrations. "Kauffer's sprightly, jazzy, designs were part of the social fabric of progressive, forward-looking Britain in his time" (ODNB). Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in blue morocco, green morocco title label lettered in silver, two raised bands, multi-coloured onlay of Robinson Crusoe to the front board after the original cover design, turn-ins with silver rule either side, blue endpapers, silver edges. Frontispiece and 7 hand coloured illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, using the pochoir process. A fine copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom