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Eudora Welty. The Robber Bridegroom (1st Edition). John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944.
Price: US$10.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green boards with white titles to the spine and front End pages have a couple of small tape marks, otherwise clean pages and good firm binding. No dust jacket. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging
Seller: Bramble Books, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Eudora Welty. The Robber Bridegroom. John Lane the Bodley Head, 1944.
Price: US$12.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Wear and tear to the jacket. Pages are tanning.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Welty, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom. The Bodley Head, London, 1944.
Price: US$14.56 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 196pp. Black-and-white Illustrator frontispiece by James Holland. Illustrated end papers, showing various heads against a brown background. The text is illustrated with numerous quarter page and small vignettes and the occasional full-page illustrations in black-and-white, by James Holland. Green coloured cloth with white illustration on the front panel and white writing on the front panel and spine. Red coloured tint to the top textblock edge. A novel set in the American South during the expansion west. Softening to the backstrip edges and to the book corners. The spine is very cocked and there is browning to the paper edges. The spine has become completely faded by the sun, and there is sun damage to the top 0.25 "of the front panel and to approximately half of the back panel. Previous owner's name on the free front endpaper. Pages a little brown. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: James Holland. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 0102769.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Description: Black and White illustrations by James Holland. Very Good-, without dust jacket.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Welty, Eudora,:. The Robber Bridegroom,. London John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Description: First Edition: Hardback, green bds., white titles and line drawing on front cover, 130 x 205 mm., 400g., 196 pp., illustrated with drawings by James Holland, illustrated eps., sunned spine and top of rear bd., bumped top and tail of spine, no dw.,
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard Cover. VG+, Wear, Edge & Sp Fade/NO DUST JACKET. Illustrated front board. Expanded condition report/photo on request.
Seller: Klanhorn, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
Eudora Welty. The Robber Bridegroom. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1944.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A rare edition of this book "The Robber Bridegroom " published by the Bodley Head, but unfortunately this book does not have it's dust jacket. The book is clean and neat, filled with beatiful drawings by James Holland. The end papers have white line drawings of heads on a brown/red ground.The book is in good condition, with no major faults.The spine has faded slightly and there is a slight turn to the top and bottom of spine.There is a slight fading to the back cover where sunlight has faded the green cover around a book that has stood alongside it.Fading to the bottom front corner. The book is firm and the pages bright with only the very slightest hint of browning (can hardly be seen ) Altogether this is an excellent copy of this hard to find book.
Seller: Riley Books, Oswaldtwistle, United Kingdom
Price: US$480.32 + shipping
Description: [Modern Literature] UK FIRST EDITION, with original dust-jacket. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.196. With a frontispiece and numerous in-text illustrations throughout by Holland. Publisher's green cloth lettered in white to upper board and spine with pictorial designs blocked in white to upper. With the illustrated dust-jacket, printed price of 10s 6d to front flap. Pictorial endpapers, top edge red. Sunning to spine and top of lower board, some chipping and wearing to edges of jacket. Very good. 'Robber Bridgegroom' is a work of fantastical imagination in which creatures roam in the black forest of Mississippi. Alongside the prose, are both in text and full page illustrations by James Holland. To find the first UK edition in the original dust-jacket is rare.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
WELTY, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1944.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First English edition. Drawings by James Holland. Sunning on the spine, very good in very good dust jacket with light toning at the spine and with a few minor chips. Inscribed by the author: "For George Bixby with best wishes, Eudora Welty. May 25, 1972." The recipient, George Bixby, published Welty's essays *A Pageant of Birds* and *A Sweet Devouring* at his Albondocani Press series. The author's very uncommon second book. Copies of this wartime title are very uncommon, especially signed.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.