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Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: George Routledge & Sons, London, no date, ca 1888. 64 pages. 36 color illustrations. 10 x 8.75", color printed paper boards. Spine piece gone, cover soiled,edges worn, text lightly foxed, G.
Seller: Peter L. Masi - books, MONTAGUE, MA, U.S.A.
Browning, Robert. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1888.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Size: 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Brown cloth spine and illustrated paper over boards, 64 pages, profusely illustrated in color by Kate Greenaway. Covers worn and stained, edges and corners have the most wear, hinges and text block cracked, pages 17-20 loose, but present, some offsetting on pages and some scattered staining. Illustrator: Greenaway, Kate. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 2 oz. Category: Children; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 012257.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
BROWNING, Robert / GREENAWAY, Kate. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. George Routledge & Sons, 1888.
Price: US$34.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: binding slightly loose but fully intact. Minor wear and tanning. Orange paper covered boards with illustration to front and cloth spine. Rubbing to edges and head and foot of spine. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$86.58 + shipping
Description: 260mm x 230mm (10" x 9"). 64pp. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Covers rubbed and bumped with edge and corner wear. Inner hinges cracked. Previous owner's inscription to fep Hardback: Illustrated board covers with pictorial illustration and cloth spine
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Browning Robert. The pied piper of Hamelin.. George Routledge and Sons s.d. [1888], London, 1888.
Price: US$99.44 + shipping
Description: In 4°; m. tela edit. illsutrata, tagli blu (piccole mancanze agli angoli, lievi segni d'uso); pp. 64; con 35 illustrazioni a colori di Kate Greenaway, incise da Edmund Evans; edizione originale ("Glasgow, Manchester and New York" al frontespizio). Ex libris al contropiatto, firma d'appartenenza e data d'acquisto (1901) all'occhiello, un'illustrazione dell'autrice e un'articolo applicati alla carta di guardia, una lievissima menda alla cerniera interna, in buon esemplare.
Seller: Pietro Panizzi Libraio, Giulianova, Italy
Robert Browning. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. George Routledge and Sons [1888], London, 1888.
Price: US$113.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition of Robert Browning's poem dedicated to the legendary Pied Piper, adorned with delightful plates by Kate Greenaway. First edition, mixed issues, meeting the following first issue points: thirty-five illustrations by Kate Greenaway; copyright statement on verso title page; and 'Glasgow' to title page. With dark green endpapers instead of than blue.Robert Browning's poem concerning the legendary Pied Piper of Hamelin, a well-known German tale concerning the disappearance of many children in Lower Saxony, which originated in the Middle Ages.Featuring thirty-five colourful plates by beloved Victorian artist and writer Kate Greenaway. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding over paper covered boards. Externally smart with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and rubbing to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean with only occasional minor handling mark. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
BROWNING, Robert / GREENAWAY, Kate. The Pied Piper of Hamelin. George Routledge & Sons, 1888.
Price: US$117.42 + shipping
Description: Appears to meet the criteria (for 1st edition 1st issue) of Shuster 157(1)(a) - all page edges stained blue, blue endpapers. Copyright statement on verso of title page. Owner's signature dated Nov.27 1888 on front free end paper. Front hinge a little cracked & repaired, with short tear in front free end paper; binding tight; some wear to board edges & corners, & at head & foot of spine, but overall a very nice copy.
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition , first printing , London , 1888. A very good tight book in cloth backed pictorial tan boards. With illustration of the Pied Piper on the front cover and a Heraldic plate on the rear cover. First issue first state. With green/ teal endpapers. Contains 64 pages with 35 colour illustrations by Greenaway which are simply lovely. Clean with contents very very nice.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Glasgow on title page, Proprietors of Copyright on copyright page. Glazed orangeish covers with pictorial of the pipe, rust colored cloth spine. Edges and corners moderately worn. Internals quite bright. Solid binding. A thoroughly presenatable copy of the famous tale with different covers and format, both still illustrated by Greenaway, than the first Routledge edition (1888). Bookstore ticket for Harper's Boys & Girls Bookshop rear pastedown.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Description: First Greenaway edition ("Glasgow" included in imprint, and copyright line on verso of title page), later impression (dark green endpapers) of Greenaway's illustrated edition which prompted John Ruskin to write "the Piper is the best book you ever did see.") Schuster & Engen, 157 1c). Folio. Original brown cloth-backed light brown pictorial glazed boards, front and rear covers with coloured illustrations, all edges blue, dark green endpapers. Coloured illustrations throughout by Kate Greenaway. Extremities bumped and worn, some creases and light soiling to boards, occasional foxing: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Browning, Robert & Greenway, Kate. THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN. George Routledge (1888), 1888.
Price: US$261.00 + shipping
Description: THE PIED PIPER OF HAMLIN, Routledge & Sons, N.d. (1888), first edition thus, first issue with Glasgow and New York on the title page, wear to fore edge corner tips and board edges, else a vg copy replete with full color illustrations by Kate Greenaway.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Greenaway, Kate) illustrator. THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN by Robert Browning; with 35 illustrations by Kate Greenaway. London; Glasgow; Manchester; New York: George Routledge and Sons, [1888]. FIRST EDITION [Schuster & Engen 157:1e]. 4to - 8-15/16" x 10-1/16". All edges tinted dark green. Brown cloth backed color pictorial glazed paper covered boards with light wear to the two bottom fore edge corners for what is a beautiful copy of the book. Original publisher's pictorial dust wrapper repeats the design of the book's front cover with inconsequential wear to the fold corners and one large chip to the top edge of the back panel for what is a very lovely copy of the wrapper. Dark green endpapers. 64 pp. The classic tale of the Pied Piper who pipes a village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service, he pipes away their children as well; illustrated with thirty-five full color drawings by Greenaway. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. The condition of the dust wrapper is VERY GOOD +. Rare in this condition and in the dust wrapper.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.