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DE LA MARE, Walter & others. My best story, second series. Faber & Faber, 1933.
Price: US$9.55 + shipping
Description: 2nd impression, 1939. Gift inscription on browned front free endpaper. Binding tight. Maroon cloth a little worn with yellow lettering on spine. Includes stories from E. F. Benson, Stella Benson, G. A. Birmingham, Algernon Blackwood, Ernest Bramah, A. E. Coppard, Clemence Dane, E. M. Delafield, Walter de la Mare, Lord Dunsany, John Galsworthy, David Garnett, Ian Hay, Robert Hitchens, W. W. Jacobs, Margaret Kennedy, Eric Linklater, W. B. Maxwell, Leonard Merrick, Geoffrey Moss, J. B. Priestley, Dorothy L. Sayers, G. B. Stern, and Henry Williamson. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D H. Pornography And Obscenity. Faber & Faber, 1933.
Price: US$12.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Card wrappers, G. 32pp, card wrappers marked & grubby, some splitting, edges chipped, otherwise a fair copy. Criterion Miscellany number 5. An essay in which 'D H Lawrence discusses current conceptions of what is clean and what is dirty'. The essay originally had appeared in 'This Quarter', when published by Faber the names of Galsworthy & Barrie were omitted from the text. Faber asked Home Secretary Lord Brentford to write an essay in favor of censorship to counter Lawrence's. Lawrence was eletaed when his pamphlet sold etter than his rivals. Roberts A49a. 125 grams.
Seller: Eastleach Books, Newbury, BER, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE, Walter. THE LORD FISH. Faber and Faber, London, 1933.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Short stories for children. Good condition, octavo, brown cloth gilt fish vignette on front, wear to spine extremities, 4 full page illustrations (black and yellow)plus additional as colophon at the end plus black and white illustrations at the start of each story. Includes: The Lord Fish; A Penny a Day; The Jacket; Dick and th Beanstalk; Hodmadod; The Old Lion; Sambo and the Snow Mountains. 292 pages [QP]
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Walter De La Mare. The Lord Fish. Faber & Faber, 1933.
Price: US$19.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Type: Ex-Library There is a Library sticker in the front cover and two Library stamps on the back of the title page. The Cover is Blue with Gold Lettering on the Spine. In the place where the publishers name is usually imprinted are the initials JV Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Yare Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. The Lord Fish. Faber and Faber., 1933.
Price: US$24.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First of the regular edition (not signed). Book is VG+ touch of shelf cocking, neat former owner bookplate, otherwise clean. Jacket spine darkened, VG- but presentable in the mylar wrap.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. The Lord Fish. Faber & Faber, London, 1933.
Price: US$31.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7 Delightful and thought provoking stories for children. The Lord Fish, Penny a Day, the Jacket, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The Old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Illustrated with B&W In Text and some full page Illustrations by Rex Whistler. Purple cloth cover with Gilt Fish fishing picture on front. Gilt lettering within decorative borders to spine. The same fish is Illustrated in Green on the Endpapers. Illustrated Title Page. Some edgewear to cover. Pencilled inscription on ffep. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. The Lord Fish. Faber & Faber, London, 1933.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine edge and ends lightly rubbed. Undated title page printed in black on a yellow background.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. The Lord Fish (and Other Stories). Faber & Faber, London, 1933.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Not Dated [1933 BL] Selection of seven magial childrens tales. Statement to last page reads "Four the stories included in this volume appeared in print for the first time some years ago Joy Street, but they have been revised- titles and all. Dick and the Beanstalk, the Old Lion and The Snow Mountains are new." CONDITION Orange decorated bds, eps illustrated with engaving in Green of Lord Fish, Pp 291 with 5 full page Whistler illus on Yellow ground and 7 wood block illus at start of each tale. Brs not worn a little darkend at spine and old remainder strip at top edge, copy is mosly bright and crisp with very odd atmospheric spot near edges internally. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ariel Books IOBA, Auckland, New Zealand
De La Mare, Walter. The Lord Fish. Faber & Faber (1933), London, 1933.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original gilt-titled cloth, pictorial endpages. With four full-page illustrations by Rex Whistler. Hint of edgewear to boards, slight foxing. The DJ in mylar is toned, lightly edgeworn/soiled, with "Book Society " band. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.97 + shipping
Description: 5.0 x 7.5 inches. In blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Price clipped. Small piece missing at top of spine. With protective plastic wrap). Old newspaper clipping loose in front. Else a very clean and tight copy. 415 pp. The Gold Falcon is an extraordinary tale which caused a great furore when it was first published, for various reasons, and especially in America. Published anonymously, speculation about the author?s identity was rife, and many leading critics made claims/guesses as to whom that was. While it became an open secret quickly enough, Henry Williamson did not properly acknowledge it until the 1947 revised edition. The Gold Falcon tells the story of Manfred Fiennes-Carew-Manfred, VC, DSO, heir to his grandfather, Lord Cloudesley. Manfred, World War flying ace hero, war poet, and war-neurotic, outwardly established and successful but inwardly in turmoil, flees to America to escape from himself, his pregnant wife and family (of which at least one child has already died ? depending on which edition you read), his own fame as a writer, his memories of war, and an abortive love affair with a young German girl, to seek a new life and a new love: he finds it ? but is thwarted from fulfilment.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
DE LA MRE, Walter;. The Lord Fish. Faber and Faber, London, 1933.
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 291 pp. Orange boards with blue illustration to front panel & blue titles to spine. Final leaf a spine decoration illustration of "The Lord Fish" in colour duplicating that on the spine of wrapper, with 4 other full page plates, illustrated eps and b&w chapter head illustrations all by Rex Whistler. Boards show light wear to extremities, scattered light foxing to bottom edge. Unclipped dw which shows slight chipping to extremities and 2cm closed tear to rear panel. Tanning to spine. A clean tight copy
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Price: US$69.96 + shipping
Description: [Children's] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp. [II], blank; 289; [5], blank. Publisher's mauve cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dustwrapper with printed price of 10s 6d to front flap. Illustrative front and back boards. Toning to edges of textblock, rolling to spine, bumping to edges, fraying to dustwrapper edges, small tear to dustwrapper spine. Very good. Walter De La Mare was a British short story writer and novelist. He perhaps is remembered most fondly for his children's books and this short story collection is sure to bring a smile to both the young and old.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE, Walter. LORD FISH. Faber & Faber, 1933.
Price: US$76.32 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good condition. No dust jacket.
Seller: Surrey Hills Books, Cranleigh, United Kingdom
Price: US$82.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Original red cloth, decorated in blue. D/w. Spotting to end-papers, d/w frayed with very slight loss.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. THE LORD FISH. Faber & Faber, 1933.
Price: US$120.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1933. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Contains: The Lord Fish, A Penny A Day, The Jacket, Dick and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 full-page b/w illustrations. Bumping and wear to spine and corners; some scuffing. Brown marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Foxing and browning to outer pages edges. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE, Walter. The Lord Fish. Faber & Faber1933, 1933.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DE LA MARE, Walter Illustrated by Rex Whistler [289] pp. Faber & Faber 1933 8 1/8" x 5 1/2"
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
De la Mare, Walter. THE LORD FISH .. Faber and Faber, London, 1933.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-289 [290: acknowledgments and printer's imprint] [291: tailpiece] [292: blank], flyleaves at front and rear, illustrations by Rex Whistler, title page printed in yellow and black, original pictorial purple cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, top edge stained yellow green, bottom edge untrimmed, pictorial endpapers. First edition. A collection of seven children's fantasy and supernatural tales, with superb illustrations by Rex Whistler. Includes revised versions of four stories first published in the Joy Street series. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-110. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 506. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 120. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 176. Bleiler (1978), p.59. Reginald 04030. A fine copy in nearly fine pictorial dust jacket with touch of wear at edges, hint of age-darkening to spine panel, and very mild dust soiling. A very attractive copy. (#130616)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
DE LA MARE, Walter. The Lord Fish. Faber & Faber, 1933.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [289] pp. Illustrated by Rex Whistler DE LA MARE, Walter Faber & Faber 1933 8.25" x 5.5"
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
SITWELL, Edith. The English Eccentrics. Faber & Faber, 1933.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SITWELL, Edith [332] pp. Faber & Faber 1933 9 1/8" x 6" Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, states Dame Edith Sitwell, because of that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and the birthright of the British nation. Originally published in 1933, The English Eccentrics has lost none of its vitality and wit. We find hermits, quacks, mariners, indefatigable travelers, and men of learning. We meet the amphibious Lord Rokeby, whose beard reached his knees and who seldom left his bath; the irascible Captain Thicknesses, who left his right hand, to be cut off after his death, to his son Lord Audley; and Curricle Coats, the Gifted Amateur, whose suit was sewn with diamonds and whose every performance ended in uproar. This is a glorious gallery of the extremes of human nature, portrayed with humor, sympathy, knowledge, and love.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$572.41 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 291 pages. Gilt cover decorations, four full-page tinted illustrations (including the title-page) and seven black and white headpieces by Rex Whistler; also Whistler's design for the spine of the dustwrapper of the trade edition is reproduced on the last page. Full gilt-decorated vellum covers with yapp fore-edges. Top edge gilt. Printed by W. Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge, on hand-made paper. Seven stories.One of 60 copies signed by the author, this being designated "Out of Series". With the author's additional autograph presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: ''With all good wishes - Walter de la Mare - March 1934''.As usual the spine has some fading. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper or slipcase.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. THE LORD FISH. Faber & Faber, 1933.
Price: US$687.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1933. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Contains: The Lord Fish, A Penny A Day, The Jacket, Dick and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 full-page b/w illustrations. Limited edition of 68 Signed and Numbered copies printed on English hand-made paper. SIGNED by author to prelim page, this is Copy No. 59. Some light wear and fading to covers. There are some page edges which are ragged, with grubby marks and a few nicks/chips, where page edges were not fully cut. Marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some marks and nicks and chips; grubby/marked to spine. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter; Illustrated by Rex Whistler. The Lord Fish. Faber and Fabe, London, 1933.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition, 1933. Of an edition of 60 copies numbered, signed and printed on English hand-made paper, this copy SIGNED by Walter de la Mare in October 1934 and labelled "out of series". Specially bound in purple vellum with yapp edges, gilt vignette of Lord Fish after Whistler on upper cover and gilt lettering and decorations at spine, top edge gilt, Whistler illustrated end pages, four full page illustrations including the engraved title page. Near Fine, toning at end papers, front board somewhat darkened, small stains at paste down, hidden by flaps, from old jacket protector, no slipcase, in a Near Fine dust wrapper, a few tiny chips along top edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.