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Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Undated but presumed 1908 due to former ownership inscription on front free endpaper. 4to: xxiv, 143pp, plus 40 tipped in plates. Rubbed, green cloth boards, without dust wrapper. Gilt lettering and decor on spine and front cover. Cloth has partially split along hinge of spine. Minor spotting throughout. Back free endpaper is missing.
Seller: Westwood Books Sedbergh, Sedbergh, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st standard edition, 4to full green cloth stamped in gilt, 40 color plates by Edmund Dulac mounted on dark green art paper covered with letter press tissue guards. (Hughey, 19a). Light wear to tips and spine ends, custom bookplate to front pastedown, else fine.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Shakespeare,William. The Tempest. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1908.
Price: US$302.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original green cloth boards with gilt title lettering to spine and the upper cover.The book has original plain green olive endpapers.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.The outer boards are a littkle marked along the edges to the rear coverbut their corners remain sharp and undamaged.The book's contents remain clean apart from just a little spotting to the half title and title pages and the final 3 pages.Superbly illustrated in colour by Edmund Dulac with a total of 40 tipped in plates each with captioned and protective guards.A very attractive example of this work and certainly one for the collector,Large and Heavy 4to [xxiv] [A] 143pp Undated but I gather that this is the 1908 First Illustrated Edition by Dulac
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of the 1st trade edition with 40 tipped in colour plates by Edmund Dulac. In original green decorative cloth binding with gilt design on front board and spine. The binding is clean with bright gilt to the front board and spine. It has been professionally rebacked so is sound and tight. There is slight marking at the bottom edge of the front board and some very slightly paler areas on the back board. Corners with light wear. The original green endpapers are present with an inscription dated Xmas 1908 to the fep. There is some light foxing to the half title. Contents in very good condition being very clean with some light toning to page edges. The plate at p11 has a small corner crease and the tissue guard to the plate at p126 is creased.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Hodder & Stoughton [1908], London, 1908.
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xxv, 143 pp., Green, gilt decorated publishers cloth. Some marks to the binding, with spine rubbed and slightly sunned. Binding firm. Some spotting throughout, not effecting the plates. Illustrated with 40 lovely tipped in colour plates, by Edmund Dulac. Contains a notice laid in announcing that an exhibition of the original drawings and water colours will be displayed at the Leciester Galleries from November 14th until Christmas 1908. Plates complete. 4to. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto, 7.25 in.x 10 in., xxiv + 144 p., 40 LOVELY tipped in color plates by Edmund Dulac on thick, olive card stock with captioned tissue-guards. Green boards and spine with gilt title and fairy design. Light rubbing to extremities. Shelf-bumping to edges and bottom of front joint. "Presentation Copy" embossed on top of title page. Very light foxing to half-title. Pages and plates are clean. Embossed on title page: "Presentation Copy", possibly pre-publication, or gift from publisher, perhaps to reviewer.
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$331.47 + shipping
Description: Tela editoriale verde con titoli ed illustrazioni impresse in oro al ds. e al piatto anteriore. Piccola fenditura alla cerniera posteriore e lievi difetti alle cuffie, altrimenti esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. Prima edizione con queste illustrazioni. 8vo (cm. 24,7), XXIV-144 pp. Con 40 tavole a colori applicate, protette da velina parlante (di cui una in antiporta).
Seller: Libreria Ex Libris ALAI-ILAB/LILA member, Roma, Italy
Shakespeare, William. SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF THE TEMPEST. Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.
Price: US$344.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1908. Very good condition with no wrapper. 40 tipped in colour plates, tissue guarded. Green cloth, gilt titles and decoration to front cover and spine. 143 pages. 11 x 8.5". Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Small, light mark to front cover and light scuffing to rear cover. Some light browning and a couple of foxspots to spine. Foxing throughout on text pages. Plates all present and in fine condition. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Hodder & Stoughton [1908], London, 1908.
Price: US$360.71 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: xxiv, 144 pp. Full blue cloth with gilt designs and lettering to boards and spine. Spine a little sunned, minor rubbing to extremities; head of spine has been repaired, and tail is slightly worn. Gilt bright and boards clean. Spotting to prelims but otherwise internally clean. Shakespeare's classic play, illustrated with 40 lovely tipped in colour plates with tissue guards, by Edmund Dulac. A special volume, would be very good condition if not for repair to spine. 4to.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1908.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Dulac, Edmund. First Dulac Trade Edition. With 40 full-page tipped in color plates by Dulac. 144 pp. 1 vols. 4to. With a slip for show of drawings at Leiocester Gallery. Hughey 19a Original green cloth. Almost fine, minor rubbing at head and tale of spine With 40 full-page tipped in color plates by Dulac. 144 pp. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: Very good+, spine head worn, edges worn & slightly frayed; Green gilt decorated cloth, 40 tipped in color plates, Hughey 195, 19a; scans available on request.
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st standard edition, 4to full green cloth stamped in gilt, 40 color plates by Edmund Dulac mounted on dark green art paper covered with letter press tissue guards. (Hughey, 19a). Exhibit notice alid in.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
Shakespeare, William. SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF THE TEMPEST. Hodder & Stoughton, 1908.
Price: US$902.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1908. Very good condition in an almost very good dustwrapper. 40 tipped in colour plates, tissue guarded. Green cloth, gilt titles and decoration to front cover and spine. 143 pages. 11 x 8.5". Spine is faded. Corners are nice and sharp. All plates are present and fine. Foxing throughout book, but still very good! Contained in original (rare) wrapper with pictorial onlay to front panel. Edge-creasing to wrapper, with a few tears and chips, but minimal loss. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 29 x 23.5 cm. Quarto. Limited to 500 copies bound in publisher's vellum with gilt design and lettering and signed by the artist Edmund Dulac this being copy number 83. Frontispiece and an additional 39 tipped in color plates. Gilt top foredge. Vellum boards are bowed. Lacking the ribbon. Scattered foxing to the text, not the plates. Some fading to the spine. Bit of discoloration to the edges of the front cover.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine and tight copy bound in full vellum. Limited Edition of 500 copies of which this is no. 96, Signed by Edmund Dulac. Forty tipped in color plates in perfect condition. Ribbon is still attached. A very nice copy and much nicer than usual. (See Pict's).
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Shakespeare, William. SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY OF THE TEMPEST. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1908.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Description: First trade edition. Quarto. xxiv, 144p. Illustrated with 40 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac. Bound in half red leather with red cloth sides, t.e.g., the spine with dark blue and brown title labels gilt, the remainder ornately gilt. Hughey 19a. Fine and bright but for small creases to lower corner of one plate
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of 500 numbered copies signed by Dulac. xxiv, 143 (1) pp. + 40 tipped-in color plates. Hardcover, bound in full vellum. The binding spotted, lacking ties, boards slightly splayed as usual; the text with light foxing at the extremities, generally unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rare 1908 antiquarian copy of The Tempest, covered in full ivory vellum. From a limited edition of five hundred copies, numbered and signed by the artist Edmund Dulac, of which this is No. 231. Very large folio 11.5" x 8.5" x 2"; 144pp. Both rare and scarce. Ivory full-vellum-covered hardboards; vellum being specially processed from calfskin and proven to be able to last for 1,000 years. Ornate gilt lettering and artistic design on front and spine. Beautiful and ornate previous owner bookplate inside front board. Boards are lightly warped, slightly spotted and darkened in some areas. (see photos) Text block clean, tight, square, unmarked, with heavy-weight paper stock, very heavily deckled edges. Lightly tanning throughout but no age speckling. Features 40 tipped-in color plates by Edmund Dulac, mounted on dark green art paper and covered with letter press captioned paper guards. This 114-year-old book is a very rare and exceptional presentation of Shakespeare's Tempest; a gorgeous collectible. Packaged with care and shipped in a box to arrive in best condition. Complete satisfaction guarantee; no sale is final until you are satisfied.
Seller: Fine Old Books Coastside, Montara, CA, U.S.A.