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Saki (pseudonym of H. H. Munro). The Toys of Peace. John Lane, London, 1919.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Saki (pseudonym of H. H. Munro). The Toys of Peace and Other Papers by H. H. Munro ("Saki") With a Portrait and a Memoir. London: John Lane The Bodley Head; New York: John Lane Company, 1919. First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix] x-xxiv [1-2] 3-303 [304: blank]. Original mauve decorative cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold. Illustrated with a photographic portrait of the author at the frontis. Spine gilt faded, last leaf and rear free endpaper creased vertically, evidence of removal of a sticker from front cover, a fairly good copy nonetheless, firm and clean inside. #1467. $15. The second-to-last collection of stories published by Saki, who died in combat in 1916. At least two of the stories are supernatural: "The Wolves of Cernogratz" and "The Hedgehog". The 15-page memoir by Rothay Reynolds looks at Saki from the point of view of a fellow soldier. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1433.
Seller: Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$19.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1929 reprint; 232 p., clean and unmarked except for gift inscription in elegant hand on front end page; small triangular open tears on second end page and half t.p.; binding firm; in absence of d.j. gilt lettering on spine nearly effaced but holograph of signature of author on front board is still bright; stains on rear panel, rubbing along spine, slight bumping of corners.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
MUNRO,H.H.(SAKI). The Toys of Peace and other papers. john lane bodley head london 1919, 1919.
Price: US$22.73 + shipping
Description: first edition 303pp VG (blue cloth,sl.soiled and mod.sunned,spine browned and stained,wear to extrems.,prelims.and edges sl.soiled,contents sl.browned,spine cracked and shaky)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Description: Salmon coloured cloth . Ownership inscription to fep. A Very Good copy of this posthumous collection of mainly war stories.
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: xxiv + 303 pp. Slight lean to spine, else very good only in full brown cloth. Rothay Reynolds contributes a memoir of H.H. Munro.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
SAKI / H.H.MUNRO. The Toys of Peace and Other Papers.. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1919.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 303pp. Mauve cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with blind-stamped lettering and ornate rule to the upper board. With a camera portrait frontispiece of the author by E.O.Hoppé. A sixteen-page memoir of the author (killed by a German sniper in November 1916 during the battle of the Ancre) by Rothay Reynolds precedes thirty-three short stories. Cloth a little rubbed at the extremities, the backstrip lightly tanned and the spine lettering just a little dulled. A touch of spotting to the preliminary leaves and a tiny area of scuffing to the front endpaper where a pencilled price has been erased, alongside the faint trace of an almost entirely erased former owner name. Quite a good, if slightly dusty copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue, trimmed variant. xxiv, 303 pp. Original mauve cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained gray, fore and bottom edges trimmed. Near Fine with a little soiling and rubbing to spine, slightly bumped corners, lacking jacket. A posthumously-published short story collection including the titular story, "The Wolves of Czernogratz," and the ghost story "The Hedgehog."
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [ix] x-xxiv [1-2] 3-303 [304: blank], inserted frontispiece (photographic portrait of the author), original decorated mauve cloth, front panel stamped in blind, spine panel stamped in gold and blind, top edge stained gray, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition, first issue, variant with top edge stained gray and fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Posthumously published collection of short fiction including "The Wolves of Czernogratz" and "The Hedgehog," Saki's only true ghost story. "Although Saki is not primarily a supernatural horror writer, his contributions to the genre are of jewel-like quality." - Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-180. Ashley, Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction, p. 137. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-172. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1433. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 366-67. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, pp. 1679-83. Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p. 439. Bleiler (1978), p. 173. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Small, faint damp stain on front cover, a very good, attractive copy. (#40915)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Porrtait photo of author by E.O.Hoppé. xxiv, 303 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. RARE IN DJ. 33 short stoires by Saki who was killed by a German sniper in November, 1916. Mauve cloth, about fine, in pictorial dust jacket with water stains Porrtait photo of author by E.O.Hoppé. xxiv, 303 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.