Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Darwin, Bernard and Elinor. Tootleoo Two. Harper and Brothers/The Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Price: US$52.66 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: US orders ship with signature confirmation. Oversize oblong first edition hardcover (no additional printings listed) with no dj and no title on spine. Spine tilted, soil on cover, front board curved outwards a bit, corners bumped, staining/foxing/tanning on every page and the endpapers, illustrations sharp, text clean, binding tight.
Seller: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Darwin, Bernard and Elinor. Tootleoo Two. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1927.
Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Description: Clean, toned,.The front page is loose and someone has done a tape repair resulting in brown tape marks to several pages. Part of the binding cover is missing.Points all worn through. Some spliting between signatures. Pages unevenly cut and unevenly bound. Small page turning tears. The Nonesuch Press, London is also listed on the title page.
Seller: funyettabooks, Bloomington, MN, U.S.A.
Darwin, Bernard & Elinor. Tootleoo Two. Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Price: US$93.58 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: hardback, rectangular format and measuring 7 1/2" x 10 1/4", pictorial parchment paper covered boards, knocked to the corners, the sewing remains sound, one or two short closed edge tears, some creasing and light soiling from page-turning, illustrated in full colour.
Seller: Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills, Llanwrda, United Kingdom
Bernard Darwin & Elinor Darwin. Tootleoo Two. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Price: US$102.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pictoral boards. Clean pages and firm binding. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale
Seller: Bramble Books, Ipswich, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard. TOOTLEOO TWO. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Price: US$107.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1927. Almost very good condition. Oblong format. Paper covered stiff cardwraps. Full-page colour illustrations. Spine and corners bumped, 0.5" loss to base of spine. Some marks to covers. Inscription in ink to front free-endpaper. Some foxing and fingering to page margins. Front pastedown is a bit grubby and there is evidence of erased pencil scribble to front free-endpaper. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard & Darwin, Elinor. TOOTLEOO TWO. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Price: US$109.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Nonesuch Press, [1927]. Hardback, ob4to, illust. Endpapers slightly tanned. Original parchment-backed boards, slightly bumped and marked. A good copy. /0.4uk
Seller: GfB, the Colchester Bookshop, Colchester, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard and Elinor. Tootleoo Two. The Nonesuch Press [1927], London, 1927.
Price: US$109.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Not paginated. Paper pictorial boards. Some minor marks and bumping to the boards with small tear to the tail of the spine. Some slight marks internally and illustrated in colour throughout. Minor lean to the spine. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard & Darwin, Elinor. Tootleoo Two. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$118.01 + shipping
Description: 42p. 22 coloured illustrations, paper boards. This the second of the series written and illustrated by the Darwins. In 1906 he married Irish born artist, Elinor Mary Monsell (1879-1954) and found time to write a number of children's books that she ably illustrated. Front board creased as per photograph., hence.
Seller: Fine Golf Books, St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
Bernard Darwin & Elinor Darwin. Tootleoo Two. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second impression [c. 1927]. Oblong format. Parchment covered boards. Small area of soiling on rear cover. Some browning to endpapers, else internally clean and unmarked. 20 color plates. An attractive copy.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Bernard Darwin & Elinor Darwin. Tootleoo Two. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Second impression. Unpaginated. Illustrated paper litho on board. Twenty (20) full page color illustration. Rhyming text verso facing illustration. The adventures of Mr. Tootleoo and Mrs Cockyollybird on land, sea and in the air. Measures 7 3/4" x 10 1/2"
Seller: Eclectibles, ABAA, Tolland, CT, U.S.A.
DARWIN. BERNARD, and ELINOR.. TOOTLEOO TWO.. The Nonesuch Press. London. No Date. 1927, 1927.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. Large oblong 8vo. (10.2 x 7.7 inches). Finely illustrated with line drawing on the title page and 20 full page colour lithographs by Elinor Darwin accompanying the verses of Bernard Darwin. Original beige paper covered boards with wave, fish and border decorations and reproduction of one of the book's illustrations in blue on front cover. A very good, bright and clean copy with small amount of chipping to the top of the spine and minimal rubbing and bumping to the extremities.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard & Darwin, Elinor. Tootleoo Two. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$200.11 + shipping
Description: 42p. 22 coloured illustrations, paper boards. Very Good condition, we have rarely seen a better copy, pages immaculate. This the second of the series written and illustrated by the Darwins. In 1906 he married Irish born artist, Elinor Mary Monsell (1879-1954) and found time to write a number of children's books that she ably illustrated.
Seller: Fine Golf Books, St. Andrews, Fife, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard & Elinor. TOOTLEOO TWO. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$200.49 + shipping
Description: Pp. [82](last blank), black & white title page vignette, 20 full page coloured lithographic illustrations; oblong 4to; pictorial light brown padded papered boards, lettered and decorated in blue, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; the free endpapers slightly offset, The Nonesuch Press, London, n.d.[1927]. First edition. McKitterick 45. *A sequel to The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo, in which a learned dragon agrees to tutor naughty Marmaduke and the other cockyollychicks. The grandson of Charles Darwin, Bernard Darwin is best known for his golf books. He and his wife, the engraver Elinor Monsell, collaborated on three books for children featuring Mr. Tootleoo.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Bernard Darwin, Elinor Darwin. Tootleoo Two. The Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tootleoo Two, by Bernard Darwin & Elinor Darwin. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927, 1st edition. Oblong format (195mm x 260mm), unpaginated. Original publishers colour illustrated paper covered boards. Boards lightly sunned and with a couple of small marks to front board, top corner very lightly bumped. Some offsetting to endpapers and a scattering of light foxing to fore-edge. No dust jacket; now in a protective Mylar sleeve (removeable). Clean and bright internally; a very good copy. Joyfully illustrated throughout with bright full-page colour illustrations. This is the second Mr. Tootleoo story, written by Bernard Darwin and illustrated by his wife Elinor. Bernard was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin, and was best known as a golf writer. He and his wife Elinor produced a number of childrens books together, including this charming eccentric tale. Seller inventory #320
Seller: Love Rare Books, St Leonards On Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Darwin, Bernard and Elinor. Tootleoo Two. Nonesuch Press, 1927.
Price: US$288.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated paper covered boards. Very nice in slightly chipped, faded d/w. nd [1927]
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Bernard & Elinor Darwin. TOOTLEOO TWO. The Nonesuch Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Wonderfully illustrated in color is this oblong (7 1/2" X 10 1/2") childrens book bound in a graphic blue and ivory printed cover. Comes with blue and black pictorial dust wrapper that has degraded to be basically two pieces (the front and rear panels) with chipping and loss to edges and spine. If not for a SOFT ripple to paper covered boards I would say the book is fine. Copyright page states " second impression" 6s. Scarce with dj.
Seller: Charles Thomas Bookseller, Stratham, NH, U.S.A.
DARWIN, Bernard & Elinor.. Tootleoo Two.. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$320.69 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the second Mr. Tootleoo book. Bernard Darwin (18761961) was the grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He and his wife collaborated on their children's books, with Bernard providing the text, and Elinor the illustrations. Oblong quarto. Original brown boards lettered and decorated in blue. With dust jacket. With 20 full-page coloured illustrations by Elinor Darwin. A very good copy in the scarce dust jacket, heavily torn and chipped, a little sunned around extremities.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Description: First editions. Illustrated in color by Elinor Darwin. 2 vols. Oblong 8vo. In Dust Jackets. Dreyfus 27, 45 Original decorated paper over boards, fine copies, IN ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS, Volume II with loss, and Vol. I VG Illustrated in color by Elinor Darwin. 2 vols. Oblong 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.