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Mare, W D L. The Wind Blows Over. Faber & Faber, 1936.
Price: US$3.21 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE, Walter.. THE WIND BLOWS OVER.. London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1936.
Price: US$9.63 + shipping
Description: 2nd impression of the 1st edition. Hardback, no dustwrapper. Blue boards, gilt spine lettering and white illustration on spine. Contents: a few corners lightly creased. Some occasional mild scattered spotting, mainly to endpapers. Otherwise pages generally good and clean. Previous owner's name/date fep. Boards: faint stain and darkening to front. Small nick edge of spine. Spine a little darkened. Two rear bumped corners. A tight copy. 326 pp.
Seller: Books On The Green, Lydd, KENT, United Kingdom
Walter De La Mare. The Wind Blows Over. Faber & Faber, 1936.
Price: US$15.19 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1936. Second Impression. 326 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut along bottom edge. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with staining, scuffing and soiling to boards. Book has a forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Walter de la Mare. The Wind Blows Over 1st Ed.). Faber and Faber, 1936.
Price: US$17.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards have some wear/rubbing to edges & bumped corners. Content is clean with a light toning - some spotting marks to endpapers/pastedowns - -previous owner name to ffep. Stable binding with a little movement to front/rear hinge. No DJ
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Mare, Walter de La. THE WIND BLOWS OVER. Faber & Faber, 1936.
Price: US$18.47 + shipping
Description: Condition fair, no dustjacket. ref ZKVQ
Seller: Lady Lisa's Bookshop, Chester, United Kingdom
de La Mare, Walter. The Wind Blows Over. Faber & Faber, 1936.
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION with scarce dust jacket + owners name - Rare and Collectable - will send out 1st class post within 12 hours of receipt of order
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. THE WIND BLOWS OVER. Faber & Faber, London, 1936.
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Description: 326pp. Blue/green cloth, darkened. A tight and sound copy. Age-toning to the paper. Size: 8vo
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. The Wind Blows Over. Faber, 1936.
Price: US$31.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.46 + shipping
Description: Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 326 pages ; 21 cm. Contents; 'What dreams may come.' -- Cape Race. -- Physic. -- The talisman. -- In the forest. -- 'A forward child.' -- Miss Miller. -- The house. -- A revenant. -- 'A nest of singing birds.' -- The trumpet. Subjects; Manners and customs. England Social life and customs 20th century ; Fiction. Short story collection. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
De La mare, Walter. The Wind Blows Over. Faber & Faber, 1936.
Price: US$44.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1936 Faber & Faber hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Very good clean tight binding no dustjacket but supplied with dust wrapper of handmade paper, as shown
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$52.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Not price-clipped. Foxing to prelims. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 326 pages ; 21 cm. Contents; 'What dreams may come.' -- Cape Race. -- Physic. -- The talisman. -- In the forest. -- 'A forward child.' -- Miss Miller. -- The house. -- A revenant. -- 'A nest of singing birds.' -- The trumpet. Subjects; Manners and customs. England Social life and customs 20th century ; Fiction. Short story collection. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
de la Mare, W.,:. The Wind Blows Over,. London Faber and Faber, 1936.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Description: First Edition: Grey bds., buff decs., gold titles, 135 x 210 mm., 550 grms., 326 pp., light foxing to prelims, original pictorial dw., unclipped, light rubbing, chipped at top of spine, VG/VG copy.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Walter de la Mare. The Wind Blows Over. Faber and Faber, 1936.
Price: US$57.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition hardback in Very Good condition with a Good Plus clipped jacket. Blue cloth boards, bumped, surfaces clean, edges faded and lightly tanned, head and toe of spine lightly rubbed, 326 pages, very minor and scattered use marks and wear, binding firm and square. Jacket had edge wear, chips to head and toe of the spine, surfaces clean but tanned, now protected in a removable clear plastic sleeve. Free standard airmail worldwide.
Seller: Waimakariri Books and Prints Limited, Oxford, New Zealand
De LA Mare, Walter.. THE WIND BLOWS OVER. FABER & FABER, London, 1936.
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: STATED FIRST PUBLICATION, OCTOBER 1936. SOLID & CLEAN, NO MARKINGS. GREY CLOTH BOARDS WITH UNUSUAL DESIGN AT HEAD OF SPINE & GOLD GILT LETTERING . TINY TEAR AT HEAD OF SPINE. MINOR WEAR TO EDGES & CORNERS. ffep MISSING. 326 PAGES. NO FOXING. SIX SUPERNATURAL and UNIQUE TALES. DIRECT INQUIRIES ALWAYS WELCOMED. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.
Seller: Come See Books Livres, Canton de Hatley, QC, Canada
Price: US$82.09 + shipping
Description: 8vo., Fourth Edition, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, backstrip lightly faded at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter sunned at backstrip and chafed at head and tail. Contains 140 poems: 'Up in the Wind' is now correctly titled and 'The Clouds that are so Light' follows the wording of the second edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. The dustwrapper states incorrectly that Collected Poems was first published in 1922. Eckert, p.249.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. The Wind Blows Over. Faber and Faber, London, 1936.
Price: US$200.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: this is an interesting copy of the faber and faber english first of this book/ the title page has the rare colonial edition stamp just above the publishers line at the bottom of the title page. the front free fly is signed and dated by prior owner, and address noted as lahore punjab india . and at bottom of free fly the handstamp of the reliance bookstore in lahore,
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Wind Blows Over by Walter de la Mare (First Edition) Signed Minor bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's inscription on front free end page. Minor wear to edges and spine ends. 1 inch tear to upper mildly tanned spine. Price-clipped, in a clear protective cover. Gray cloth with gold lettering and design on spine. 326 pages. Signed by author on front free end page.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
De la Mare, Walter. The Wind Blows Over. London; Faber;, 1936.
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. 11 short stories. Number 40 from a signed limited edition of 75 copies. Near fine - slightly grubby in yellow boards with spine titles and decorations in gilt. Gilt top edge and untrimmed foredge and bottom edges. No dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Walter de la Mare. The Wind Blows Over. Faber and Faber, London, 1936.
Price: US$288.60 + shipping
Description: A scarce signed, limited edition copy of this collection of short stories by Walter de la Mare. Limited edition of seventy five copies, of which this is number fifty eight. Signed by de la Mare to the colophon. Printed on English hand-made paper. Published the same year as the first edition. Walter de la Mare was a British author and poet, perhaps best known for his children's work, such as his poem 'The Listeners'. Mare was also a notable writer of ghost stories and wrote a number of supernatural stories. Several of these ghost stories are found in this collection of short stories, such as 'A Revenant' and 'Phsyic'. Many of the works found in this work were first published serially in magazines such as 'The Talisman', 'The Lady's Realm' and British newspaper 'The Times'. In the original yellow cloth binding. Externally very smart with just a few light handling marks to the boards. Slight sunning to the spine.Slight bumping to the tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Several pages remain uncut including the contents page. Signed by the author to the colophon. Pages bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom