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Walter De La Mare. The Riddle And Other Stories. Selwyn & Blount Limited, 1923.
Price: US$18.28 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1923. First Edition. 303 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Slight cracking to hinges and gutters, with exposed netting, pages remain attached. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription and sticker to rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Walter De La Mare. The Riddle and Other Stories. Selwyn & Blount Limited, 1923.
Price: US$30.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1923. 303 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Moderate tanning to spine and edges.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
de la Mare, Walter. THE RIDDLE AND OTHER TALES. Selwyn & Blount Ltd., London, 1923.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st printing, 1923. Blue cloth, lettered in gold on spine. Thumbnail corner creases; dealer and previous owner's marks on ffep; a little fray at spine ends, particularly heel which is bumped; spine a tad darkened; pages tanning.
Seller: Books from the Crypt, N. Potomac, MD, U.S.A.
Walter De La Mare. The Riddle and Other Stories. Selwyn & Blount Ltd, 1923.
Price: US$42.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1923. First Edition. 303 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Ex-libris plate at front. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Walter de la Mare. The Riddle and Other Stories. Selwyn & Blount, London, 1923.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good tight copy, old blotch marks affecting portions of boards, light age spotting to page edges, wrapper frayed at edges with some tears and loss to lower area of spine.
Seller: The Bookstore, Belfast, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE, WALTER.. The Riddle and Other Stories. London: Selwyn & Blount, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good in a good dust jacket with some interior tape mends. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. The Riddle and Other Stories. Selwyn & Blount, London, 1923.
Price: US$65.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, a very good copy in the dust wrapper, previous owner's name on the front end paper.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$99.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed and dated by Walter de la Mare. First edition. Hardcover, no jacket. Binding weak and may soon break. Text unmarked, though some foxing throughout. Previous owner's bookplate inside. Exterior moderately worn and soiled. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.)
Seller: Big Star Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
De La Mare, Walter. THE RIDDLE AND OTHER STORIES. Selwyn & Blount, 1923.
Price: US$104.40 + shipping
Description: THE RIDDLE AND OTHER STORIES, Selwyn & Blount, 1923, first edition, some off-setting to the end-papers (from the flaps no doubt), else vg+ in vg dust-wrapper with some light chipping.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
De la Mare, Walter. THE RIDDLE AND OTHER STORIES. Selwyn & Blount Limited, London, 1923.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-303 [304: blank] [305: printer's imprint] [306: blank] [307: ads] [308: blank] [309: ads] [310-312: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front panel ruled in blind, spine panel stamped in gold, bottom edge rough-trimmed. First edition. The author's first collection of short fiction. Collects fifteen stories including "Seaton's Aunt," one of de la Mare's best supernatural tales. "All excellent stories." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 500. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, pp. 65-6. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-59. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 292. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 117-21. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 4-90. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 174. Bleiler (1978), p. 59. Reginald 04033. Early owner's signature in ink dated 1924 on front free endpaper. Small stain to top edge of text block, endpaper darkened, else a bright, very good copy in very good yellow printed dust jacket with some shelf wear at edges, shallow chipping at spine ends and top and bottom edges of rear panel, and some dust soiling. Uncommon in jacket. (#110270)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.