Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
LOFTING, HUGH. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1930.
Price: US$26.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Purple cloth with colour plate to the front board and to the spine. Full colour endpages and frontispiece; illustrated throughout in black and white. Spine lightly faded; title plate to the spine browned. Outer page edges darkened. One signature started but the binding is sound.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Lofting, Hugh. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A. Stokes, 1930.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New York: Frederick A. Stokes, Co., 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - 5 ½ x 8. 303 pp. Good. No dust jacket. Previous owner bookplate on the verso of the front free endpaper. The text appears unmarked. The binding is slightly shaken, but it is still intact.
Seller: R. Rivers Books, Running Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Lofting, Hugh. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1930.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 303 pp, illustrated head & ail pieces, 3 full-page color plates, color illustrated endpapers, color illustrated labels spine &f ront cover Lois Lenski, lavendar boards, 8vo. Spine ends/corner tips lightly worn, bookplate inside front cover, small ink marks rear endpapers, front hinge broken, color frontis missing, no dust jacket
Seller: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.
Hugh Lofting. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1930.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Library bound book, red cloth cover, in good condition, ex-library, some soiling on page edges, but in good conditions. Charming Lois Lenski illustratations! This is the author of the Doctor Dolittle books. ; 5.5 x 8; 303 pages
Seller: Elder's Bookstore, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Lofting, Hugh & Lenski, Lois. THE TWILIGHT OF MAGIC. Frederick A. Stokes, 1930.
Price: US$46.40 + shipping
Description: THE TWILIGHT OF MAGIC, Stokes, 1930, first edition, spine extremities and corner tips fraying, else a good to very good copy. Illustrted by Lois Lenski.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Lofting, Hugh. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1930.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner's name in ink and remnants of label on first front free endpaper. ; Book is in excellent condition - exceptions noted. Tight binding and clean, unmarked text. Tissue guard on frontispiece. Charming illustration including endpapers and frontispiece by Lois Lenski. ; ; 303 pages
Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.
Lofting, Hugh. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A. Stokes 1930, 1930.
Price: US$57.00 + shipping
Description: Hardback. No Dustjacket. First Printing. Bound in purple cloth boards with picture on the front cover. Illustrated by Lois Lenski. Spine slightly cocked. Minor fading to bottom right corner of cover. Fading to spine. Light water stain on bottom front edge of book. On the plus side, the binding is tight and sound, the paper is nice shape, and the pictorial endpapers are unmarked and bright.
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
Lofting, Hugh. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A Stokes, 1930.
Price: US$66.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo 303pp. First US edition. Illustrated by Lois Lenski, includes color frontispiece, and color pastedowns along with b&w illustrations. Hugh Lofting's only work for older children, set in a world where magic is dying and science is rising. Lofting is best known as the creator of the children's literature character Dr. Doolittle. #00734. very good: soiled boards, bumped corners, wear to title plate on spine, name in pencil on FFEP and half title page. text clean, binding tight.
Seller: Matthew's Books, Chattanooga, TN, U.S.A.
Lofting, Hugh. THE TWILIGHT OF MAGIC .. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York, 1930.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 1-303 [304: blank], inserted frontispiece with color illustration by Lois Lenski, other black and white illustrations by Lenski in the text, original purple cloth, pictorial paper onlay affixed to front panel, printed paper label affixed to spine panel, pictorial endpapers. First U.S. edition. A fairy tale set in the Middle Ages. Lofting's only non-Doctor Dolittle book. Waggoner, The Hills of Faraway 628. A bright, nearly fine copy. (#160170)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Lofting, Hugh. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A. Stokes Co., NY, 1930.
Price: US$121.99 + shipping
Description: nFINE. Purple cloth boards, paper pastedown titles on cover & spine. Decorated endpapers. po bookplate (child's) on half title page. Illustrated by Lois Lenski throughout. Colour frontis. Spine sunned. By the author of Dr.Doolittle. [B112]
Seller: Sierra Rose Antiques, Minden, NV, U.S.A.
Lofting, Hugh. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Frederick A. Stokes Co., NY, 1930. Lenski, Lois (illustrator). near fine . Purple cloth boards, paper pastedown titles on cover & spine. Decorated endpapers. protected frontispiece, very small nick to edge of front cover, othwerwise clean and unmarked as new
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
LOFTING, Hugh. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A. Stokes, New York, 1930.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Lois Lenski. Purple cloth with publisher's printed labels on cover and spine. Neat contemporary owner gift inscription on half-title, binding slightly cocked with moderate wear at base of spine and bottom corners, very good in an about good only dust jacket with the middle of the spine roughly excised, nicks and tears at the edges, moderate rubbing and soiling, and heavy interior tape repairs. Lofting took a break from his *Doctor Dolittle* series to write this medieval fantasy that takes place in an age when magic is dying and science beginning.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lofting Hugh. Twilight of Magic. Frederick Stokes, 1930, First Edition., 1930.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bright pictorial dust jacket with foxing to cover that blends into multi-colored scenery, lightly sunned jacket spine with nicks to spine ends, nicks to rear jacket edges, foxing to white rear cover, bright pictorial inset of cover. Purple cloth by Lois Lenski, colored front is piece tiny water spot to spine, slight slant.
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
[Lois Lenski] Lofting, Hugh. The Twilight of Magic. Frederick A. Stokes Co, New York, 1930.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: The only book of Lofting's illustrated by someone other than himself, in this case being a somewhat early and certainly beautiful example of Lenski's work in illustration. It is tale for older children full of magic, castles, kings, and knights in Medieval England. The jacket is uncommon. 8vo, 303pp. Illustrated endpapers, full color frontis, black and white vignette and full page illustrations throughout, all by Lois Lenski. Publisher's purple cloth with pictorial paper onlay on upper board, and paper spine label. Spine cocked, page edge soiled, else nearly fine and bright. Illustrated jacket which matches the endpapers has some shallow chipping at spine ends, corners, and along folds. Spine a bit sunned, and rear panel soiled, else a very good example. Original price of $2.50 in tact
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.