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Price: US$12.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardback in good sound condition. Considerable sunning to covers, primarily to spine, with moderate wear to cover extremities. Browning to end papers (first interior page front and back). Rought cut edges to text block (as published), with some spotting to fore edge of text block. --- General information: please email for any more information or condition photos. There may be other minor faults not included here, but this description should include all important points and convey accurately the overall conditon of the book(s). We are happy to give a more detailed description (by volume where applicable) on request. Posted next day (Mon-Fri) from the UK. We normally post by Royal Mail 1st class within the UK, but may use a slower service for books over 1kg or multiple orders or a tracked service for higher value orders. We normally post by Royal Mail Tracked for overseas deliveries, and may request additional postage (at cost) for heavier books (buyers always have the option to cancel the order if we do so).
Seller: Jaycey Books, Ruislip, United Kingdom
BEERBOHM, Max. The Works Of Max Beerbohm: With A Bibliography By John Lane.. John Lane, 1896.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Description: First edition of his firrrst published book. A Fair copy with disintegrating spine. Internally VG and with two spare copies of the spine label laid in to the rear ep,
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
Max Beerbohm. The Works of Max Beerbohm. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1896.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover edges are worn and spine sunned. Rough-cut and tanned pageblock. Repair to hinge at p 80-81. Several notes to ffep otherwise contents clean and unmarked.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small square 8vo, red cloth, paper spine label. Spine faded and soiled, label browned and chipped. The spare labels are not present, alas.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Description: Very Good-, without dust jacket.
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
BEERBOHM, Max.. Works of Max Beerbohm.. John Lane, the Bodley Head, London, 1896.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: With a Bibliography by John Lane. [viii] 179 [16, ads] pp. 12mo, red cloth with printed paper label on spine (and two extra labels tipped in at back). First edition. Gallatin & Oliver 2; Riewald 1. Paper spine label browned, as are the endsheets; red cloth slightly soiled, more so at backstrip.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, a very good copy in publisher's cloth, lightly dulled on the spine, with the end papers toned. No markings or inscriptions.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original bright red cloth, paper spine label. The author's first book, with a bibliography by John Lane. Boards lightly rubbed; spine tips and corners gently bumped.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition. (180) pp., 16 pp. publisher's catalogue. Additional spine labels bound in. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth, paper spine label. Two dampstains on back cover (with some loss of color), spine label a little chipped, rear hinge broken, else a good copy (180) pp., 16 pp. publisher's catalogue. Additional spine labels bound in. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Second Edition of the author's first book, red cloth covered boards, with paper label on the spine. One hundred and seventy-nine pages plus a John Lane Catalogue of Publications in Belle Lettres comprising an additional 16 pages. Other than some browning in the hinges both front and back and a light sunning to the spine, the book is clean and in very good plus condition.
Seller: Robert Rankin Books, Caledonia, ON, Canada
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition of the author's first regularly published book (it was preceded by several days by the US edition, an issue which did not contain Lane's bibliography). 8vo. 178pp + xvi publisher's catalogue. Crown 8vo. Red cloth with paper a spine label and two more tipped-in at the rear, as required. Cloth a little faded at the backstrip and bruised at the spine ends. Some browning to the endpapers and just a touch of spotting to the half-title and title page. A very good copy. Seven essays, all previously printed in assorted periodicals, often under different titles, with one of them ('Dandies and Dandies') here revised and enlarged; issued alongside the first printing of John Lane's bibliography of early Beerbohm appearances. Gallatin & Oliver 1a.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$181.50 + shipping
Description: First UK edition; 8vo; 16pp. advertisements, browning to endpapers, two additional title labels tipped-in at end; publisher's red cloth (browned) printed spine label, spine darkened, slight shelf-lean, otherwise very good. Preceded by the US edition, this is Beerbohm's first regularly published title, ensuring his acceptance amongst the 'fastidious and recognised high priests of his profession' (David Cecil).
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Red cloth with printed paper spine label. Contemporary stamp of The Women's Institute Library, with a presentation in an unknown hand to the Library, spine-toned and a few spots on the boards, a little foxing, very good or better.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.10 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 179pp. Cloth.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition (preceded by the American). [10], 3-178, [2], [16, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Beerbohm's first book, with John Lane Presentation. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "Presented by John Lane "to H.H. Robinson June 8/96" Hunter H. Robinson, who co-authored THE LIFE OF ROBERT COATES (1891), is mentioned by Beerbohm on p. 134 in his delicious essay on the foppish actor, "Poor Romeo" Gallatin and Oliver 1b Red cloth , with paper label, extra labels in rear, new endpapers. Spine slightly faded, label a bit chafed [10], 3-178, [2], [16, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo First English edition (preceded by the American).
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Rothenstein, Will. Oxford Characters. John Lane, London, 1896.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: bound in publishers cloth. unpaginated. Covers measure 12.5" x 18.1" 24 lithographic reproductions. Regular edition copies measure 11.8" x 17.5" I believe. This book measures 13.7" x 20.5". It is bound in publishers cloth. Will Rothenstein in an explanatory note, states 'Sixteen of these Lithographed Portraits were done during the year 1893; the remaining eight were drawn in the month of February of this year, and are dated '96. I would wish to record my thanks due to those friends of mine who have so generously and willingly supplied the Biographical Sketches facing my Drawings. Sitters are: Sir Henry Ackand W.A.L. Fletcher Robinson Ellis Viscount St. Cyres W.R. Morfill C.B. Fry Friedrich Max Muller Earl Beauchamp James A.H. Murray Mr. J. Conway-Rees Walter Horatio Pater Mr. F.W. Bussell Professor Margoliouth Mr. Max Beerbohm Ingram Bywater Hilaire Billoc The Rev. Charles Henry Olive Daniel Mr. Hartwell De La Garde Grissell E. Ray Lankester, F.R.A. Mr. James Hearn John Scott Burdon Sanderson, D.M. Arthur Sidgwick Mr. Joseph Wells, M.A. Frederick York Powell, M.A., to whom the work is dedicated. Internally VG-, front hiunge is tender and threadbare as is the rear hinge. Old staining and soiling to covers, age-toning to extremities of sheets. 200 copies of this edition for England and America.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.