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Darwin, Bernard & Elinor. The Tale of Mr. Tootledoo. The Nonesuch Press, London,, 1925.
Price: US$108.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, landscape format. unpaginated, 22 coloued plates. browned foredges. pencil gift inscription to front pastedown, minor marks and indentation to title page, plates bright and crisp, very good in original decorative paper covered boards with red debossed decal to upper board, minor marks, light shelf wear, very good Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Tombland Bookshop, Norwich, NFLK, United Kingdom
Bernard Darwin. The Tale of Mr. Tooteoo. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$114.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The tale of a shipwrecked sailor, told in verse, with a happy ending. Undated circa 1925. Twenty two full page illustrations in colour with facing text. Pages unpaginated. Brown paper wrapped over boards with relief stamped medallion to front cover. A fine copy.
Seller: Wadard Books PBFA, Farningham, KENT, United Kingdom
Bernard Darwin & Elinor Darwin. The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo. The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition [1925]. Oblong format. Parchment covered boards with embossed medallion on upper cover. Parchment split along outer hinge of upper cover; head of spine pushed; top fore-edge corners bumped. Interior clean and unmarked, pages bright. 22 color plates.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Darwin, Bernard & Darwin, Elinor. THE TALE OF MR. TOOTLEOO. The Nonesuch Press, 1925.
Price: US$178.37 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Nonesuch Press, [1925]. Hardback, ob4to, illust. Original parchment-backed boards, slightly bumped and rubbed. A good copy. /0.4uk
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard & Elinor. The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo. The Nonesuch Press [1925], London, 1925.
Price: US$191.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: n.d. [1925] . unnumbered. 45 leaves, including 22 splendid full page colour illustrations. In the original light brown paper cover boards, with red decoration to the spine and corners, and a large blind stamped red medallion of 'Mr Tootleoo and the cockyolly birds' ' six shillings'. The head and tail of the spine have been crushed with a little loss, and there is a general overall toning. However, this is a very good copy of an uncommon title. Bernard Darwin was grandson of Charles Darwin; he was a golf writer and good amateur golfer. Oblong 4to.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$222.96 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to. 10.5 x 7.5 inches. Unpaginated, [2] + [44] pp. (2 pp. letterpress captions and verse to each plate). In original paper-covered boards with spine and corner decorations and with red embossed vignette to upper board. Slight wear to extremities but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 22 full-page colour illustrations by Elinor Darwin to accompany verses by Bernard Darwin and by title page vignette. Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) was a grandson of Charles Darwin. He was a lawyer by training but not by inclination and moved into journalism, becoming a leading writer on golf, a game which he played well as an amateur. In 1906 he married Irish born artist, Elinor Mary Monsell (1879-1954) and found time to write a number of children's books that she ably illustrated. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S ILLUSTRATED 20TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard & Elinor. The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo. The Nonesuch Press N.d. [1925], London, 1925.
Price: US$254.81 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Unpaginated [45 leaves, including 22 full-page colour illustrations]. Original light brown paper-covered boards, with red decoration to the spine and corners, and a large embossed red medallion of 'Mr Tootleoo and the Cockyolly Birds' to the front board. Boards clean. Internally clean. No ownership names. With twenty-two full-page colour illustrations. A nice copy of an uncommon title. Bernard Darwin was a grandson of Charles Darwin; he was a golf writer and good amateur golfer. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$272.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; oblong 4to; 22 full-page colour plates by Elinor Darwin, light toning to leaves, very occasional creasing; original brown pictorial boards printed in red, red blindstamped roundel to front cover, light wear to spine ends, corners slightly rubbed, some marks to boards, otherwise a very good copy. First edition of the first Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (1876-1961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He collaborated with his wife on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. Dreyfus 27.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard & Elinor. The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo. Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$384.34 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression, complete with the scarce dust wrapper. The wrapper is chipped at the edges, with an old repair to the front panel, small area of staining to the lower corner, which is visible on the edge of the text block, but not when the pages are opened. The contents is clean and unmarked and the plates are remarkably fresh.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Darwin, Bernard and Elinor. The Tale of Mr Tootleoo. Nonesuch Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$390.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First printing with clean but age-toned boards. Lightly bumped corners with hinges remaining firm. DJ is nicked along edges with wear to corners, spine and flap but remains, somehow, complete. BP/Case/NF/UP
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition (presumably). Publishers's paper-covered boards with a relief medallion-like title on the front board; 1928 gift inscription; very good. [With] Tootleoo Two. London: Nonesuch Press, n.d. [ca. 1925 or later]. First Edition (presumably). Publisher's paper-covered boards; owner's initials on the front free endpaper; very good. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
DARWIN, Bernard & Elinor.. The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo.. London: The Nonesuch Press, [1925], 1925.
Price: US$509.62 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. The first Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (18761961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He and his wife collaborated on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. With a handwritten note on the publisher's stationery loosely inserted, apparently unconnected to this copy. Oblong quarto. Original brown boards with red decoration, red blindstamped roundel to front cover. With dust jacket. With 22 full-page coloured illustrations by Elinor Darwin. Covers a little cockled, else a very good copy in the dust jacket, a little chipped and toned around extremities.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom