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Bret Harte. The Queen of the Pirate Isle [Illustrated by Kate Greenaway]. Chatto and Windus, 1886.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Scarce in any condition. Foxing to boards, general shelf/reading wear. Binding sturdy.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE. Chatto and Windus N.d. [1886], 1886.
Price: US$27.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback rebound by library. In good condition for its age, with discolouring and markings to a few pages. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Harte, Bret.. The Queen of the Pirate Isle.. Chatto and Windus. [1886], London., 1886.
Price: US$32.50 + shipping
Description: weight: 0.5 lb. Good, covers soiled and rubbed, ink initials to lower spine, bookplate removal to pastedown, inner hinges splitting, light soiling to pages. Color illustrations by Kate Greenaway. 22.2x16 cm. 58 pp. Pictorial tan cloth, green coated endpapers, all edges gilt.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
GREENAWAY, Kate. By Bret Harte.. THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE.. London Chatto & Windus, 1886.
Price: US$44.59 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION (1886), small 4to, 220 x 165 mm, 8¾ x 6¼ inches, in the original publisher's unbleached linen, different coloured illustrations to upper and lower covers, gilt title and rules to both covers, all edges gilt, dark green endpapers, 58 pages. Pretty coloured frontispiece, coloured title illustration and coloured illustrations throughout. Top corners of boards bumped (see image), a few faint fox spots to upper cover, small bookplate and bookseller's tiny label on front pastedown, very slight shallow crease to top corners of pages 15 mm (¾") from corner tip, due to bump to cover corners, no inscriptions, faint offsetting opposite a few coloured illustrations, no foxing. Clean bright very good copy of delightful children's book, quite common in first edition. Our copy collates to Schuster, Printed Kate Greenaway, 165 1(f) who lists no fewer than 10 variants of the first edition. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.96 + shipping
Description: First edition, 1886. Hardback. 58pp. Original pictorial cloth. All edges gilt. Colour frontispiece, title vignette and in-text colour illustrations by Kate Greenaway. A beautiful little volume and in exceptionally clean condition. Very good condition. Slight discolouration to spine with very slight wear at extremities. Armorial bookplate to front paste down.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
HARTE, Bret, Kate Greenway (Illus).. THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE.. Chatto & Windus,, London,, 1886.
Price: US$50.96 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp 58. Original publishers illustrated beige buckram, lettered black on spine and black and gilt on front cover. Copiously illustrated in colour throughout. Very slight wear and marking to cloth with some rubbing to black lettering at spine, otherwise very good.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Harte, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Chatto & Windus, 1886.
Price: US$52.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book has shelf wear. Pages are tanning. Foxing/staining has occurred on the pages.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$63.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Very Good copy, font inner hinge split but firm, otherwise a nice copy.
Seller: Fountain Books (Steve Moody), Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Bret Harte. The Queen Of The Pirate Isle.. Chatto and Windus, London., 1886.
Price: US$63.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 58 pages with 27 vignette color litho illustrations by Kate Greenaway, oatmeal colour illustrated cloth boards darkened with handling and spine also titles dull, All edges gilt as called for with a 1st edition. repair to front endpaper and half title at gutters and some small holes here, inscription reads "Janet Willis from Mrs Birch, Urmston 1889" on half title. contents very clean and colors bright. Small slim quarto. *The story of Polly's imaginary adventures as a 9 year old in Victorian England, dressing up, having a Chinese boy Wan Lee and her other friend Hickory joining her in this tale.
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo., 58pp.; VG/none; spine brown with black lettering; protected in a mylar covering; mild shelfwear and rubbing; text block red; 28 beautiful color illustrations; slight age-toning to pages; interior clean; shelved case 14. 1277219. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE. Chatto & Windus, London, 1886.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches bound in worn and soiled decorated buckram pictorial boards. Previous owner personal bookplate with clipping of publisher information regarding the release of the title which in turn has toned the front free endpage. Contents complete and bright in 58 pages.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret; Greenway, Kate, illus.. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Chatto & Windus, London, 1886.
Price: US$87.85 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A nice copy in slightly darkened boards. Undated (1886) a three line gift inscription on the front end paper (blue) otherwise clean and unmarked, internally very fresh.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Harte, Bret. THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE. Chatto & Windus, 1886.
Price: US$90.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st 1886. Good condition with no wrapper. Cream cloth covers, colour vignettes to front and rear, black titles to spine. Full-page colour frontis illustration, colour text illustrations throughout. 58 pages. 8.5 x 6.5". Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Covers are heavily worn with some bumping, fading and marks. Front joint is cracked; half-title page is nearly detached. Contents are generally very good, but pages do have some grubby margin marks. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$108.29 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION (1886), small 4to, 220 x 165 mm, 8¾ x 6¼ inches, original unbleached linen, different coloured illustrations on upper and lower covers, gilt title and rules on upper cover, plain white endpapers, all edges yellow, 58 pages. Very pretty coloured frontispiece, coloured title illustration and delightful coloured illustrations throughout. Very slight faint foxing to endpapers and top margin of prelim pages. Near Fine lovely copy. As Schuster 165, 1(g) except ours has white endpapers. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Harte, Bret. QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE. , 1886.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: (Greenaway, Kate)illus. QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE by Bret Harte. (Schuster 165, 1(e))Chatto & Windus, London, 1886 1st Edition). 8vo, cloth, deep green endpapers, 58pp, illustrated in color throughout. A nice copy showing little wear.
Seller: Edward T. Pollack, ABAA, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE. Chatto & Windus, 1886.
Price: US$131.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1886. Very good condition with no wrapper. Cream cloth covers, colour vignettes to front and rear, black titles to spine. Full-page colour frontis illustration, colour text illustrations throughout. 58 pages. 8.5 x 6.5". Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Spine very slightly bumped at head and tail, covers lightly browned with a few faint marks. Removal of small (name?) plate to half title page which has caused some light browning to page and verso of front endpaper opposite. Lower 3" of front joint cracked. Light foxing to contents and small circular mark to margin of a few pages. Small erased pencil mark to margin of one page. A nice copy of the first edition. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.43 + shipping
Description: 58 pages, colour illustrations throughout by Kate Greenaway, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. Covers a little darkened with some wear, internally nice and clean, book in very good condition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000 8°. Original beige cloth with gilt and black titles, colour illustration to front and rear.
Seller: Plesse Antiquariat Minzloff, Bovenden, Germany
Harte, Bret. The Queen of Pirate Isle. Warne, London, 1886.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Greenaway, Kate. Warne edition, following the Chatto and Windus edition of 1886. With color frontispiece and 27 color text illusrations by Kate Greenaway. 58 pp. Printed in colour by Edmund Evans. 58pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. See Schuster and Engen 165 (3b), but with plain endpapers Gray green pictorial cloth. Fine With color frontispiece and 27 color text illusrations by Kate Greenaway. 58 pp. Printed in colour by Edmund Evans. 58pp. 1 vols. Small 4to Warne edition, following the Chatto and Windus edition of 1886.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Bound in unbleached linen, pictorial vignette to both boards, titled in black on spine, all edges gilt (BAL Binding A); blue-green coated endpapers; 58pp; color relief illustrations throughout, drawn by Kate Greenaway and engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. A clean copy, cloth lightly rubbed, front free endpaper detached, three-inch crack to rear hinge: Good only. Bookplate of William West. BAL7337.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 8.75" x 6.5". 58pp. Charming illustrated throughout in color. Pictorial tan boards. Edges stained red. Light rubbing to spine ends, spine a little darkened. Minimal off-set toning to free endpapers. A very nice copy.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Description: First edition. Royal octavo. 58 pages. 28 illustrations in colour by Kate Greenaway. Original unbleached linen pictorial cloth. All edges red. Covers dusty but internally a bright, clean copy. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$192.17 + shipping
Description: In-8° (cm. 22x16), pp. 58 con 28 ILLUSTRAZIONI di Kate GREENAWAY (Hoxton 1846- Londra 1901), che dal 1879 in poi ispirò perfino la moda dei vestiti per bambini; ebbe come unici rivali in popolarità nell'illustrazione di libri per bambini Walter Crane e Randolph Caldecott. I dipinti di Greenaway furono riprodotti tramite cromoxylografia: i colori furono stampati da blocchi di legno incisi a mano dalla ditta di Edmund Evans. Ottimo esemplare.
Seller: Libreria Le Colonne, TORINO, TO, Italy
Price: US$192.17 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in beige cloth over boards. Both covers with title in gilt and author and illustrator in black. Title, author and initials of illustrator in black on spine. Colour illustrations on both covers. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 58 pages; Physical desc.: 58 p. : col. ill (Brown letterpress. Illustrated with colour wood-engravings, reproduced as line photoengravings.) ; 22 cm. Subjects: Fiction -- Children's books -- England - 1886. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Square 8vo, tan cloth with black lettering on spine & brown and black lettering with rules plus a colored Greenaway drawing of three children on the cover, colored frontispeice by Kate Greenaway and 27 smaller colored illustrations, all edges red, 58 pages. Charming title by Brete Harte that elevates a girl's fantasies of adventure with evocative pastel illustrations by Kate Greenaway. Overall, a Very Good copy. Quite tight volume with excellent illustrations. Interior gently age-toned but very clean, clear, and unfoxed. Attractive ink presentation to a six-year old granddaughter on free front endpaper. Cover is slightly rubbed and soiled with a couple of light spots; bruised lower right corner. BAL binding variant (plain endpapers and reddish edges). English printing precedes the American, though both were printed and bound in Great Britain.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Chatto & Windus, London, 1886.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Queen of the Pirate Isle by Bret Harte. First British edition in pictorial beige cloth. Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London, nd, but 1886. Binding is in very good condition, soiling to the covers. Contents clean and bright. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. 58 pages. 6 ½ x 8 ¾ inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory # C-288. Price: $200.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 58 pp. Illustrated in color by Kate Greenaway. 8vo, publisher's cloth illustrated on both covers; BAL binding state B or C with white endpapers and edges stained red. First edition. BAL 7337. A beautiful copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. London: Chatto and Windus, 1886.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, binding B (BAL 7337); 8 1/2 x 6 1/2; pp. [9], 10-58; unbleached linen over boards, ruled and lettered in gilt and black; front board illustration from pp. 13, back board from pp. 16; engraved and printed by Edmund Evans; frontispiece and 27 in-line illustrations in color by Kate Greenaway; slight bump to bottom edge of boards; a bit of wear to tips of spine; all page edges reddish-brown; offset to ffep from a tipped-in period newspaper article about the book; two small, tasteful bookplates to front board verso; very good condition.Centered around four children in a mining camp in Gold-Rush California, the story follows their adventures playing pirates. 2
Seller: ZH BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Fremont, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in beige cloth over boards. Both covers with title in gilt and author and illustrator in black. Title, author and initials of illustrator in black on spine. Colour illustrations on both covers. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 58 pages; Physical desc.: 58 p. : col. ill (Brown letterpress. Illustrated with colour wood-engravings, reproduced as line photoengravings.) ; 22 cm. Subjects: Fiction -- Children's books -- England - 1886. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$241.58 + shipping
Description: Cartonato editoriale fig. a colori. Tagli oro. Eccellente esemplare. Prima edizione. 8vo (cm. 22), 58 pp. con num.se ill.ni a colori.
Seller: Libreria Ex Libris ALAI-ILAB/LILA member, Roma, Italy
Harte, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Chatto & Windus, London, 1886.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Queen of the Pirate Isle by Bret Harte. First British edition in pictorial beige cloth. Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London, nd, but 1886. Binding is in near fine condition, some rubbing. Contents clean, neat tape repair to verso of the ffep. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. 58 pages. 6 ½ x 8 ¾ inches. Protected by Mylar. Inventory #15-349. Price: $250. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
HARTE, Bret. The Queen of The Pirate Isle. Chatto & Windus, London, 1886.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated in color by Kate Greenaway. 58pp. Slim 8vo, original unbleached linen with pictorial vignettes on front & back covers (front cover lightly rubbed). London: Chatto and Windus, n.d.[1886]. First edition. A very good(+) copy. A lovely copy of this book, considered to be one of Greenaway's finest works. Schuster & Engen 165[1a]. Blanck 7337, binding A, with green end-leaves & gilt edges.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$254.81 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 6.5 inches. 58 pp. Bound in original unbleached linen, with gilt and black titles and colour blocks of Greenaway drawings on both boards. All edges gilt. Minor wear to extremities, but otherwise a very good clean copy. Illustrated by 28 Kate Greenaway colour paintings, including frontispiece and title page vignette. Children's story set in a California mining camp during the Gold Rush period, by US short story write, Bret Harte (1836-1902). The illustrator,Catherine (Kate) Greenaway (1846-1901) was the daughter of a London wood engraver and spent twelve years of art college education in the city. Her work was greatly influenced by childhood holidays in the Nottinghamshire countryside and she chose a vaguely Regency style of costume for her figures. Her first book illustration was published in 1867, but she did not achieve widespread recognition until Edmund Evans (1826-1901), wood engraver and colour printer, printed her illustrated book of verses, Under the Window, in 1879. It sold 100,000 copies in her lifetime. Greenaway's paintings were reproduced by chromoxylography, the colours being printed from hand-engraved wood blocks by Evans. Becoming an artistic celebrity she came under the influence of the ageing John Ruskin who greatly admired her female figures. Along with Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway is ranked as one of the three great illustrators of Victorian children's books and her work remains in print today. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS JUVENILE LIT. FICTION CHILDREN'S AMERICAS 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$254.81 + shipping
Description: [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (22 x 17cm), pp.58. Liberally illustrated with very fine in-text colour-printed wood engravings after Kate Greenaway's drawings. Publisher's cream cloth with titles in both gilt and black and a colour illustration to both boards. Titles also in black to spine; all edges gilt; green-coated endpapers. Rear fly-leaf removed, with blue pigment from the pastedown transferring quite heavily onto final leaf of text. Generally quite clean, with perhaps a hint of toning and a few isolated spots and marks. Upper hinge split, but holding fairly well. Moderate rubbing and toning to cloth; more-so to spine, where the titles are quite faint. A really delightful high-quality children's book. Very good. Something of a rarity in Victorian children's literature â" a make-believe pirate adventure with a girl as the main character!
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Bret Harte. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Chatto & Windus, 1886.
Price: US$305.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: illutrated by Kate Greenway. gilt page edges. egraved and printed by Edmund Evans. slight inner hinge cracking.Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece, coloured title-vignette and 26 coloured illustrations in the text , text mildly age-marked; original oatmeal pictorial cloth.green endpapers, very neatly recased, covers mildly age-soiled
Seller: Benster Books, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Price: US$305.77 + shipping
Description: Sm. 4to., First Edition, on laid paper, with a coloured frontispiece, coloured title-vignette and 26 coloured illustrations in the text , text mildly age-marked; original oatmeal pictorial cloth, upper and lower boards with gilt frame border blocked in colours with different vignettes and lettered in gilt and black, backstrip lettered in black, all edges gilt, green endpapers, very neatly recased, covers mildly age-soiled as often else a bright, firm copy.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Harte, Bret. THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. , 1886.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: [illustrated by Kate Greenaway] London: Chatto and Windus, n.d. [1886]. Original olive linen with color pictorial covers, all page edges red. First Edition of this 58-page children's fantasy tale that includes 28 color illustrations by Kate Greenaway. There is a very similar American edition, actually printed and bound in the U.K. at the same time as this edition, with a Houghton Mifflin title page that bears the date 1887. This copy is in what Blanck calls "binding C(B?)" -- pictorial olive linen, page edges stained red, white endpapers; binding A with gilt page edges is believed to have been the first, or certainly the most expensive, but the order of the other two is unknown. It is in remarkably fine condition, without soil or wear -- and is rather uncommon thus. Blanck 7337 (binding "C(B?)").
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Chatto and Windus, London [1886], 1886.
Price: US$339.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches, 58 pages, original cloth with gilt titling to front and back boards, all edges gilt, some general soiling, Beautiful color illustrations, owner's gift inscription dated Christmas 1886, light foxing to half-title. First Edition edition. Good.
Seller: Dawson's Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Chatto & Windus, London, 1886.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A sharp, crisp copy. Binding B, all edges brown.
Seller: John R. Sanderson, Bookseller , Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret [Francis Brett Harte]. Queen of the Pirate Isle. Chatto & Windus, London, 1886.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Chatto & Windus [1886]. 1st Edition, scarce unprioritized variant binding. Illustrations by Kate Greenaway. 8 5/8" x 6 3/8". 58 pp. In BAL 7337, the binding described as: "Also noted is the following binding of unknown status, possibly an experimental" - unbleached linen with blue/green "s" cloth shelfback, dark brown coated endpapers, edges plain, vignette on front cover, back cover blank. Light soiling, minor rubbing to corners and spine ends, front hinge cracking but not loose, faint traces of glue previous owner's bookplate removal on front pastedown, quaint 1904 Christmas inscription on ffep with offset to flyleaf. A solid VG example of a scarce variant first edition state. Nice collectible example, with illustrator Kate Greenaway at her best with numerous full-color illustrations, and of Bret Harte's enchanting tale of an imaginative young girl, and a singular binding variant. As always, please feel free to ask questions or request additional scans. - Jeff Harvey L5
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Greenaway, Kate. First edition. With color frontispiece and 27 color text illusrations by Kate Greenaway. 58 pp. Printed in colour by Edmund Evans. 1 vols. Small 4to. Osborne coll. I, 350; Hürlimann 2222 Gray tan pictorial cloth. Fine. In half orange morocco slipcase and chemise With color frontispiece and 27 color text illusrations by Kate Greenaway. 58 pp. Printed in colour by Edmund Evans. 1 vols. Small 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Harte, Bret. THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE. Chatto and Windus, London, 1886.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (Greenaway, Kate) illustrator. THE QUEEN OF THE PIRATE ISLE by Bret Harte; illustrated by Kate Greenaway; engraved and printed by Edmund Evans. London: Chatto and Windus, [1886]. FIRST EDITION [Schuster & Engen 165 (1j)]. 8vo - 8-11/16" x 6-7/16". Blue cloth backed unbleached linen covered boards, front cover with title stamped in gold and black and with a picture of three children on a boat stamped in colors, back cover blank; there are minute touches of wear to head and tail of spine but other than that the book is without flaw; truly a fantastic copy of the book. Brown coated endpapers. 58 pp. The story is illustrated by Greenaway with a full color frontispiece, title page vignette and twenty-six full color drawings within text. Internally the book is FINE. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Kate Greenaway. The Queen of the Pirate Isle (with signed letter). Chatto & Windus, 1886.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "The Queen of the Pirate Isle" by Bret Harte and illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Chatto & Windus, London. 1886 first UK edition, light spotting and offsetting, publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed, loosely inserted autograph letter signed by Greenaway. In the letter, dated 2 April 1889, Greenaway writes to booksellers Palmer & Howe of Manchester, apparently enclosing the original drawings for Queen of the Pirate Isle; according to Spielmann and Layard, she sold her Pied Piper and 1893 Almanack illustrations to them (Spielmann, pp.172, 182). "I think the getting up of the book very nice," she writes, "but of course the drawings would look far better and cleaner if they were surrounded by raised mounts".
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
HARTE, BRET. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Chatto & Windus, London, 1886.
Price: US$561.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Decorated tan cloth lettered in gilt and black. Gilt edges. 58 pp. 27 colour illustrations plus frontis by Greenaway. First issue binding. A wonderful survivor with just a touch of soiling and couple of minor bumps. Beautiful copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
GREENAWAY, Kate; HARTE, Bret. Queen of the Pirate Isle, The. London: Chatto and Windus, 1886, 1886.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: A Presentation Copy In the Incredibly Rare Original Printed Dust Jacket GREENAWAY, Kate (artist). HARTE, Bret. The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Illustrated by Kate Greenaway. Engraved and Printed by Edmund Evans. London: Chatto and Windus, 1886. First edition, binding A. Presentation Copy from the Author to Lady Alfred Paget signed and dated London December 2d, 1886. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in; 216 x 159 mm). 58 pp. Color frontispiece and twenty-seven text illustrations in color by Kate Greenaway. All edges gilt. Publisher's original tan cloth, covers pictorially decorated in colors (the front cover with the illustration from page 13, the lower cover with the illustration from page 16), all edges gilt. Cloth a little bit soiled, lower corner of rear board with small loss of cloth. In the incredibly rare original gray paper pictorial dust jacket, printed in brown. The jacket has been miraculously and almost invisibly backed by the master book restorer, Bruce Levy. A spectacular presentation copy, as rare as can be in the original dust jacket. Of the twenty-four copies to come to auction within the last thirty-six years only four were in Binding A, only one possessed the dust jacket, and not a single one was signed. "Mr. Bret Harte has written a children's Christmas book, with the alluring title of "The Queen of the Pirate Isle," which will be illustrated by twenty-five [28] drawings by Miss Kate Greenaway, printed in colors in the text. The result of this combination of one of the most English of artists with one of the most American of authors will be awaited with unusual interest" (The Nation, Vol. 43, No. 1102, August 12, 1886, p. 138). The Queen of the Pirate Isle is a short story set in and around a mining camp in gold-rush California - a milieu that features in almost all of Bret Harte's work. The four young protagonists - imaginative Polly (the "Queen"), her cousin Hickory Hunt, their Chinese "page" Wan Lee, and neighbor-boy Patsey - are all children, have extremely vivid imaginations, and Harte relates their adventures playing pirate - in fantasy, dream, and reality. Bret Harte lived in London from the 1880s through his death in 1902. Lady Alfred Paget, née Cecilia Wyndham (1830-1914) "a woman of remarkable intellectual powers" (NY Times obituary, May 4, 1914), was a lady in waiting to Queen Victoria (who was godmother to one of the Paget children), and owned Chateau Garibondy on the Riviera in the south of France where she entertained royalty and the intellectual cream of Great Britain. She likely met Harte at one of his popular London lectures, always attended by a distinguished audience. BAL 7337. Sharnhorst 902. Schuster and Engen 165.1f.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.