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Price: US$640.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. iii [i] 21 [3] Original publisher's quarter black cloth over boards with printed label illustrated by James Guthlrie on upper board, title page printed in green ink, decorations in green and purple- all by Guthrie. No.108 of an edition of 150 copies. Very faint tanning to endpapers else fine in original plain unprinted beige d/w, complete with faint wear at edges. Scarce collection of poems dedicated to Edward Thomas who fell in WWI (1917) Contributors include Walter de la Mare, Teresa Hooley, Gordon Bottomley, John Gawsworth, James Guthrie, Kenneth Morris, W. H. Davies, Vivian Locke Ellis, Robert Frost.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$833.29 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's grey paper covered boards, black buckram spine with printed paper label to the upper board. An excellent clean and tight copy, the fragile spine with some fraying to the lower edge is holding firm. The contents with the decorative bookplate of John Gold to the front pastedown and with pertinent pencil inscriptions to the front endpaper are otherwise clean and bright throughout. A collection of poems in memory of Edward Thomas. Inscribed by the publisher James Guthrie in pencil at the head of the front free endpaper "To John Gold / from James" underneath which Gold has inscribed "To Roger / fr John / Aug 1949". Limited to 150 copies of which this is hand-numbered 105. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$833.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 22pp + iii prelims. Printed on hand-made paper in a limited numbered edition of 150 copies. This is copy #32. Collection of poems in memory of Edward Thomas by twelve poets, including Gordon Bottomley, Walter de la Mare, Vivian Locke, James Guthrie, Robert Frost, Teresa Hooley, Kenneth Morris. Foreword by Robert P. Eckert Jr. Grey paper covered boards with black cloth covered spine. Green title plate tipped to front cover. Green and white illustrated title page. E T decorative device on Content's page. Number of other decorations and illustrative page headings together with printer's motif throughout the book. Untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Light toning bar on rfep. All protected with brown'd and worn glassine plain paper wraps and contained within a clear archival envelope.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$1089.69 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The sole UK printing published by The Pear Tree Press in 1935. Number 72 of only 150 copies. Accompanied by the publishers scarce promotional flyer from 1938 which is a folded sheet in four detailing this title and a loose woodcut proof print for the front cover design in fine condition. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. A little toning to the board edges. The fragile spine is intact. Some offsetting to the end papers. Free from erasures and inscriptions. A collection of poems : these things the poets said of fellow poet Edward Thomas. Decorations by James Guthrie. Scarce and collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Price: US$1089.69 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The sole UK printing published by The Pear Tree Press in 1935. Number 150 of only 150 copies. The BOOK is in near Fine condition. A little toning to the board edges. The fragile spine is intact. Some offsetting to the end papers. Free from erasures and inscriptions. A collection of poems : these things the poets said of fellow poet Edward Thomas. Decorations by James Guthrie. Accompanied by a blank postcard Signed by James Guthrie and a loose woodcut proof print for the front cover design in fine condition. Scarce and collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom