Price: US$152.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth with gilt spine lettering and the boards stamped in blind. Decorated by Charles Ricketts and printed at the Ballantyne Press. Bookplate neatly removed front the paste-down endpaper, light wear to the cloth at the spine ends, but overall a near fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. cxxiii, [2] pp. Limited edition, one of 310 copies. Bound as issued in green cloth and stamped in blind with a design by Ricketts; gilt title on the spine; printed on handmade paper with a "mermaid" watermark by Messrs. Arnold; unopened. A very nice copy with limited wear to the binding; small bumped spots on the bottom edge and fore-edge of the front board; the spine is just a touch darkened; offsetting to the endpapers and adjacent blanks; text is largely if not completely free from the usual foxing. A nice copy of this play from one of the most elegant and pleasing sets of Shakespeare's Plays with beautiful Art Nouveau influenced cover design and borders by Charles Ricketts. Watry B44/5.
Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, PA, U.S.A.
Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. Hacon & Ricketts, 1900.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Most desirable volume in the Vale Shakespeare. Seen through the press by T. Sturge Moore, text and decorations by Charles Ricketts, printed at the Ballantyne Press. Large 8vo, green cloth with blind-stamped geometrical design by Ricketts, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, leaves uncut. Head and tail of spine bumped, small stain on front cover, nick in bottom edge of back cover. Internally flawless, partly unopened. Most scarce.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.19 + shipping
Description: With decorations drawn by Charles Ricketts. 2 blank leaves, CXXVII, (1) pp. Large 8vo. Orig. green cloth, blind-tooled with decorations by Charles Ricketts. "The Vale Shakespeare". Printed in the Avon type on handmade paper under supervision of Charles Rickett. The complete Shakespeare has been printed on the Ballantyne press for Ricketts and T. S. Moores Vale Press between 1900 and 1903 in 39 volumes. Trace of a former ex libris on inner front board. A nice and clean copy in all.
Seller: Peter Bichsel Fine Books, Zürich, Switzerland