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Henry James. The Turn of the Screw. The Hand and Flower Press, 1940.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Description: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Hardcover, No. 52 of 200 Copies (1940). Of this book 200 copies have been printed on barcham green hand-made rag paper. They are numbered from I to CC. This is number LII (52). The book is illustrated by Mariette Lydis. Book in acceptable condition, with no dust jacket. The spine has been detached and the cover shows considerable wear, especially to the extremities, including the bottom of the back panel. (See pictures). The cover has a marbled effect finish. A collectible and scarce book.
Seller: Ann's Old Town Books, Swindon, United Kingdom
Henry James. The Turn of the Screw. The Hand and Flower Press, 1940.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Hardcover, Limited Edition, No 135 of 200 (1940). The book is illustrated by Mariette Lydis. The book is one of two hundred copies printed on Barcham Green hand-made rag paper. They are numbered from I to CC. This is number CXXXV (number 135). Book in very good condition, but without a dust jacket. The book has some cover wear, and very minor ageing to the page edges. Overall a very good copy of a book of this age. (See pictures). 'The Turn of the Screw' is an 1898 horror novella by the author, which first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly.
Seller: Ann's Old Town Books, Swindon, United Kingdom
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: Folio, pp. [1-4: blank] [5-8] 1-138 [139: blank] [140: colophon] [141-144: blank], six inserted plates with illustrations after drawings by Mariette Lydis, publisher's three-quarter vellum and gray boards, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Limited edition. Number 144 of 200 copies printed in Centaur on handmade Barcham Green rag paper, this is one of the 75 in the deluxe binding of quarter vellum. The first book of Erica Marx's Hand and Flower Press. A long colophon details the difficulties of producing the book in wartime. Ridler 1. A fine copy in the printed jacket (with several small nicks at edges and a bit of general dust soiling) and unprinted paper wrapper under it. (#171666)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
JAMES, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. Hand and Flower Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$898.29 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Published: 1940. First Edition. Limited edition. No. 140 of 200. DESCRIPTION: Light brown original plain DJ over half bound buckram with paper covered boards. Wrapped in clean cream coloured paper. Language: English. Book Condition: Near Fine DJ Condition: Very Good: Wear, chipping and tears to upper and lower edges. In protective sleeve. Pages 138. Size: 30cm by 21cm. BOOK RESUME: This is a horror novella penned by James in 1898 at the invitation of Robert J. Collier for his magazine. First published as a series, it tells of a hired governess who comes to Bly, a country estate in Essex, to supervise two children, Miles and Flora. The children are orphans under the responsibility of their uncle who, in turn, does not have much time to spend with them and resides in London. The young governess willingly assumes her responsibilities, being totally delighted to be in charge of two beautiful, lovely and well-behaved children in such grand estate. However, Bly soon opens its horrors to the governess and she becomes aware that there are at least two ghosts in the house that haunt the children. The Turn of the Screw is now infamous for its multiple story interpretations and all kinds of meanings that can be read into the text. Nevertheless, whether one reads the story as a straightforward ghost tale or as a more complex psychological study of one nanny losing her mind, it is still a scary and intriguing read, which leaves much to think about and discuss upon finishing.
Seller: Jacket and Cloth, Chippenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A beautiful book with a very significant gift inscription in ink on the front free endpaper: "For my darling Mary from Mummie, Christmas 1943." MARY CHURCHILL (nee Soames), Winston and Clementine Churchill's youngest child, spent Christmas 1943 apart from her family, in London, manning a Hyde Park anti-aircraft battery as an officer in the Auxilliary Territorial Service. Her father had suffered a heart attack following the Casablanca Conference and was recuperating. Her mother had flown out to North Africa to nurse him. The Hand and Flower Press was founded by Erica Marx at her home in Aldington, Kent in 1940. This book was the first production of the press, printed on handmade paper in a limited edition of 200 copies, of which this copy is number XXVIII. As the Colophon states: "This edition of The Turn of the Screw composed in Monotype Centaur to the design of Erica Marx was printed at the Western Printer's Press at Bristol while the drawings by Mariette Lydis were reproduced by the Cotswold Publishing Company at Wotton-Under-Edge and finished under stress and difficulty during the warring months of July-September 1940." The book is in very good condition, with some wear along the cover edges and down the cloth spine, which has darkened significantly. The contents are fine. It is here presented in a stunning quarter-leather cloth clamshell solander.
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.