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Price: US$41.22 + shipping
Description: Quarter-cloth and patterned boards, skiver spine-label, 4to, 28 cm, xxviii, 271 pp, colour frontispiece, ills, plates (a few in colour). Front joint split at head, covers rubbed and slightly edgeworn, endpapers somewhat nmarked, a handful of pencil notes to contents, otherwise Good.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$49.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: ; Beige cloth cover is worn, particularly at corners and spine caps, sunned, and soiled and overall in good only condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight (spine reglued). Former owner's name address in pencil on front paste down (Alfred Fowler, presumably of the Woodcut Society). Pages are clean and pristine. Heavy toning, foxing, and some soiling to paste downs and front end sheets. Pages are toned with light scattered foxing but overall in very good condition.
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
HERBERT FURST. Modern Woodcut a Study of the Evolution. JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD LTD, 1924.
Price: US$55.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Published by John Lane / The Bodley Head, 1924. Oversized hardbound without jacket. Ex-library with substantial wear at head and foot of spine (fraying), worn to boards at tips. Covers loose; hinges reinforced with tape (inside). General overall wear. Typical library markings inside front cover. General overall wear; binding moderately cocked. No markings of text noted.
Seller: Alplaus Books, Alplaus, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Title-page printed in red and black. Over 200 illustrations in black-and-white and 16 inserted colour plates. Fawn canvas with black spine titling, blocked in black on the upper board. Lacks dust-jacket, ex-library marks to title-page and spine, engraved bookplate. A good copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
FURST HERBERT. THE MODERN WOODCUT. LONDON JOHN LANE THE BODLEY HEAD, 1924.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. A VERY GOOD HARDBACK COPY IN SLIGHTLY MARKED BOARDS.A STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE CRAFT WITH A CHAPTER ON THE PRACTICE OF XYLOGRAPHY BY W. THOMAS SMITH WITH OVER TWO HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS IN BLACK AND WHITE AND SIXTEEN PLATES IN COLOUR.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Furst, Herbert. The Modern Woodcut. John Lane The Bodley Head, London 1924, 1924.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: A study of the evolution of the craft.with a chapter on xylography by W. Thomas Smith. With over 200 illustrations in black and white, sixteen plates in colour. Bound in beige cloth, with black titles and vignette to upper cover; black titles to spine. Unclipped dust-wrapper. xviii, 271 pp. First edition. VG [some light spotting to the early and late matter and to the outer page-edges; some rubbing to the edges of the book itself], in a VG wrapper that is showing some crease-wear and a few small, closed tears. Internally excellent. A handsome copy of this important reference work, scarce in wrapper. 11271. Heavy book, extra international shipping charges will apply.
Seller: Holybourne Rare Books ABA ILAB, Alton, United Kingdom
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. 271pp. Bound in tan cloth with pictorial design to front cover. Illustrations in black and white and color. Some foxing. Illustrators of the woodcut include but not limited to: Vanessa Bell, John Bewick, Thomas Beckwick, Bonfils, Brangwyn, Caligiani, Timothy Cole, Dalziel Brothers, Durer, Birket Foster, Gauguin, Robert Gibbings, Holbein, Holusai, Kandinski,Rockwell Kent, Masereel, Millet, Moreau, Munch, Wm Nicholson, Nolde, Pissarro, Raverat, Charles Ricketts, Charles Shannon,Zorach.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Buckram cloth, black-stamped vignette and titles, with over 200 illustrations in b&w, and 16 color plates. Very good copy.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$132.59 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some minor loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 271 p. : col. front., illus., plates (part col., 1 double) ; 29 x 23 cm. Notes; "Bibliography of books consluted": p. 247. Subjects; Wood-engraving - History. Wood-engraving - Technique. Illustrated books. Woodcuts. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With over 200 illustrations in black & white, 16 plates in colour. 271 pages, untrimmed. Short thick 4to, original cream cloth with black-stamped pictorial covers, tattered d.w. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924. First trade edition. A fine bright copy with a poor dust wrapper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Furst, Herbert. THE MODERN WOODCUT. John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, London, 1924.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Study of the Evolution of the Craft. With a Chapter on the PRACTICE OF XYLOGRAPHY by W. Thomas Smith with over 200 illustrations in black and white and 16 Plates in colour. 271 pages. 11.6" X 9" X 1.6". Beige cloth with black woodcut illustration on front cover; black titles on front and spine. VG to VG+. Size: 11 x 9
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of this study of the development of the modern woodcut, by the prolific art critic and editor. Heavily illustrated discussion of the woodcut, its technical development and aesthetic evolution in modern art. Plates cover a wide historical span, from block books of the 16th century through the work of Max Weber, Henry Fitch Taylor, Rockwell Kent, and Edvard Munch. The book includes a final technical chapter by Smith, demonstrator at the Slade School of Fine Arts, titled "Hints on the Practice of Xylography." 11'' x 9''. Original tan pictorial cloth, stamped in black. Black topstain, other edges uncut. Over 200 black and white illustrations, 16 color plates. 271, [1] pages. Evidence of bookplate removed from front pastedown. Front hinge starting. Some bumping to corners; a bit of soil to cloth.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$154.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some minor loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 271 p. : col. front., illus., plates (part col., 1 double) ; 29 x 23 cm. Notes; "Bibliography of books consluted": p. 247. Subjects; Wood-engraving - History. Wood-engraving - Technique. Illustrated books. Woodcuts. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: With over 200 illustrations in black & white, 16 plates in colour, and 3 original woodcuts. 271 pages, untrimmed. Short thick 4to, 1/2 white cloth, grey boards, spine darkened, corners rubbed. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1924. Very good(+). Number 4 of 75 numbered and signed copies, containing original woodcuts by A. P. Gallien, John F. Greenwood, & Gwendolen Raverat.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A handsome copy of the 1924 1st American trade edition, issued simultaneously with the British edition AND INCLUDING ITS UNCOMMON PRINTED DUSTJACKET. Tight and VG+ to Near Fine (light offsetting at the endsheets) in a crisp, VG to VG+ dustjacket, with chipping at the spine crown (resulting in a tiny bit of loss to the titling) and very light scuffing and streaking to the rear panel. Tall quarto, deckled fore and bottom-edges. From the title page: "A Study of the Problems of Decoration with Special Reference to the Work of This Artist by Herbert Furst, author of 'The Modern Woodcut', etc. Illustrated with Thirty-Three Reproductions in Colour and about One Hundred and Fifty in Monochrome." Handsome and very presentable, especially as such, in its original dustjacket.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.