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LEWIS CARROLL. USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE POETRY. GEOFFREY BLES, 1954.
Price: US$5.12 + shipping
Description: Vg clean firm interior, no marks or inscriptions, contains a f/p and 7 full page b&w illustrations, Introduction by Derek Hudson - boards have bright clear lettering and small picture to front but with a few patchy rubs to top rear edge - shelfwear soiling to front and rear as shown, spine toned but clear lettering, all tight and firm./
Seller: Ron Weld Books, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom
Price: US$5.77 + shipping
Description: hardback, 8vo, 45pp, illustrated, pages browning, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, pictorial board covers, Very Good / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback 2nd Impression, 12mo, 45pp text with frontis and 7 pp illustration by Lewis Carroll (age 13). Very good in ivory boards, spine titles in green & red and gilt illustration and green and red titles on upper board. Interior clean and tight with bookseller's ticket at bse of front paste down. No D/W.
Seller: Pauline Harries Books, Liphook, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. Useful and Instructive Poetry. London; Geoffrey Bles;, 1954.
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Introduction by Derek Hudson. Near fine small format with slightly grubby front cover.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Lewis Carroll. Useful and Instructive Poetry. First Edition.. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1954.
Price: US$7.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st printing. Previous owner's name on fep, some browning to spine and cover o/w very good.
Seller: Caldono Books, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 45pp, illustrated frontis, illustrated by the author (the juvenile Dodgson himself), hardcover, gilt decorated pictorial boards, gift inscription to front endpaper ‘To Jo from Sheila with much love, Christmas 1956’, some minor foxing to page edges but o/w very good condition, Geoffry Bles, London, 1954. * with an introduction by Derek Hudson. This was Carroll’s first book written when he was only thirteen years old and published fifty six years after his death in 1954.
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With 45pp, illustrated by the juvenile Dodgson himself, no dustjacket, hardcover, cover decorated in gilt, very good condition. . *First published in 1954 : the first book written by Carroll when he was only thirteen.
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Hudson, D.. Lewis Carroll: Useful and Instructive Poetry. Geoffrey Bles, 1954.
Price: US$10.13 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pen & pencil markings In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
CARROLL, LEWIS:. USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE POETRY. Geoffrey Bles London 1954, 1954.
Price: US$13.19 + shipping
Description: first edition, white illus cloth, 45pp illus, G+(upper front corner scuffed, boards soiled & sunned, booksellers stamp to front pastedown, ep's soiled but text clean) lacks d/w but front flap is present
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$16.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. With an introduction by Derek Hudson. Cream boards with gilt decoration and green/red lettering are very good with the odd small mark, a little patchy browning, the odd small bump to edges, little pushing to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are clean and the binding is tight. Previous owner's name in pencil to front end-paper. Top of pages slightly dusty. Pages slightly tanned (not major). No other faults. A nice copy (sadly lacking jacket). All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
CARROLL LEWIS. USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE POETRY. GEOFFREY BLES, LONDON, 1954.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: WRITTEN WHEN THE AUTHOR WAS 13 AS A GUIDE FOR HIS YOUNGER SIBLINGS SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED PHOTOS OF THE ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BOUND IN WHITE WITH GREEN RED AND GOLD LETTERING AND DESIGN FAINT AREA OF DISCOLORATION ON BACK COVER
Seller: ARD Books, cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 45 pgs. b/w illustrs. Beige covers, lightly sunned around the edges.Cellophane and paper dj. Sticker remains to ffep.Very nice copy.
Seller: Dale Cournoyer Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
CARROLL, LEWIS. Useful and Instructive Poetry. geoffrey bles 1954 london, 1954.
Price: US$21.28 + shipping
Description: first edition thus octavo hardcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Carroll, Lewis. Useful and Instructive Poetry. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1954.
Price: US$21.84 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Introduction by Derek Hudson. The text is illustrated with black-and-white drawings by the author. Cream coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured embossed decoration to the front panel; with, green and red coloured titles edged with gilt to the front panel and green and red coloured titles to the back strip. Transparent dustwrapper, with the front fold over panel in paper, to describe the book's contents. Written and drawn by the author as a precocious 13-year-old, the title says it all. Rubbing of the book edges with sunning to the back strip edges. There is a discolouration of the top right hand corner of the front panel commensurate with loss of dustwrapper. Offset tanning and foxing of the end pages with very light age toning of the pages. Gift inscription to the top edge of the free front end page. The top right hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel is missing as is the lower corner of the same panel. There is a 1.75 "tear to the top left hand corner of the rear panel and a similar size tear to the lower left hand corner of the front panel. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [4], 5 - 45, [3] pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Author. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Britain; 19th century; Inventory No: 0290253.
Seller: Syber's Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition stated , first printing ,1954 , London. A very good + book in the original white binding. Clean with contents excellent. Illustrations in the book. No acetate dust jacket. Still a sharp solid book.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$26.75 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 45pp, frontis, 7 plates (one double-sided). Original pictorial colour-printed paper-covered boards gilt, glassine and paper d/w. Glassine incomplete.
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom
CARROLL,LEWIS. Useful and Instructive Poetry. geoffrey bles london 1954, 1954.
Price: US$31.02 + shipping
Description: first edition 45pp ills. VG+ (in dec.vellum,mod.soiled w.sl.sunned spine,eps sl.foxed)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Carroll, Lewis,:. Useful and Instructive Poetry,. London Geoffrey Bles, 1954.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Description: First Edition: Hardback, cream bds., gold illustration on front bd., red and gold titles, 125 x 190 mm., 300g., 45 pp., Introduction by Derek Hudson, previous owner's name on ffep. dated 1954, no dw., VG copy.
Seller: Stephen Wilkinson Fine Books, Near Ventnor, Isle of Wight, IOW, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. Useful and Instructive Poetry. Geoffrey Bles 1954, London, 1954.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 45 pp., Gilt decorated paper boards with protective plastic wrapper. Plastic wrapper is torn at the head with loss. Minor spotting to the boards. Minor scattered spotting. Illustrated with black and white photographs of Lewis Carroll's own writing and illustrations when he was just 13 years old. 8vo. Illustrated
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.86 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION 1954, 8vo, cream boards, lettered red, green and gilt, gilt illustration to upper cover, 45 pages. 7 facsimiles of the drawings made by Carroll and one facsimile page of his verses. 17 poems of which only 6 have been published elsewhere, written by Carroll for a family magazine when he was 13. No inscriptions, tiny light brown stain to fore-edge of page 29 continuing to rear endpaper, increasing slightly in size (see image). Near Fine in original glassine DUSTWRAPPER with printed paper front flap (dw: not price clipped (6s net), short closed tear at tail of spine and at lower corner of upper cover). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
CARROLL, Lewis.. Useful and Instructive Poetry.. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1954.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: With an Introduction by Derek Hudson. 45 pp. Illustrations by the author. 12mo, publisher's gilt illustrated boards in publisher's clear mylar wrapper with integral printed front flap (price-clipped, with a few tiny chips). First edition. Tiny 1954 ink gift inscription; old retailer's ticket on front pastedown; very slight dust-soiling to the black rear board, and very slight tanning at the extremities of the spine, matching tiny chips to the mylar wrapper.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
CARROLL, Lewis. Useful and Instructive Poetry. bles, London, 1954.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Introduction by Derek Hudson. 45pp., white boards, lettered in red, green & gilt. London: Geoffrey Bles, (1954). First Edition. A reprint of Carroll's first book, written & illustrated by him at the age of 13. First flap[ of the dust wrapper has been preserved.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Carroll Lewis. Useful and Instructive Poetry. Geoffrey Bles. 1954., 1954.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Description: HB. 1st edition. Paper covered boards soiled o/w VG.
Seller: Geoff Blore`s Books, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2nd impression. 8vo. (2) + 45 + (3)pp. Publisher's cream pictorial cloth covers, gilt /red/green lettering on front & spine, gilt man flyingkite sitting on horse with windmill + hoop on front. Original glassine dw, printed paper flaps. Original white eps. 4 line ink dedication on front ep. Covers : faint browning along top/bottom of spine else bright. Dw : 3 by 3cm chip to edge of rear acetate else complete. Contents : very clean & tight. & unfoxed. F-/VG.
Seller: Deightons, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
CARROLL, Lewis. Useful and Instructive Poetry. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1954.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First U.K. edition. With an introduction by Derek Hudson. Gilt decorated boards, in a clear acetate dust jacket with paper front flap. Light wear, with some toning along the edges, still near fine in a very good dust jacket with moderate staining on the paper flap.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.16 + shipping
Description: Primera edición así. 8vo. 45pp + 8 láminas. Encuadernación editorial original en cartoné con estampación en plano superior y letra en color. Muy buen ejemplar.
Seller: Librería Antonio Castro, SEVILLA, SE, Spain
CARROLL Lewis. Useful and Instructive Poetry. THE AUTHOR'S FIRST WORK. Geoffrey Bles, [1954], 1954.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Description: Sm. 8vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece and 7 plates of facsimile illustrations by the author, faint spotting on endpapers; pictorial boards gilt, covers a little age-marked (rather heavier at extreme edges) else a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THE dustwrapper. The first publication of Carroll's first work, written in 1845 when he was thirteen. Williams & Madan (Green), 1.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the first edition, pictorial cream cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, red and light green in publisher's original acetate ["transmatic"] dust jacket, patented in 1930, complete with printed paper front flap. Book with mild toning to spine and edge of boards and upper corners lightly bumped, else fine; dust jacket with a couple chips and closed tears to bottom back cover, else fine.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. USEFUL AND INSTRUCTIVE POETRY. Geoffrey Bles (1954), London, 1954.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Composed in 1845 when Carroll was thirteen for his younger brother and sister. Includes a few facsimile pages of text and reproductions of seven of the original illustrations. Light damp staining to boards and page top edges, otherwise very good in the original acetate dust jacket with printed paper front flap (small piece missing from head of spine and large piece missing from rear panel of acetate).
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
CARROLL, LEWIS. Useful and Instructive Poetry. London Geoffrey Bles 1954, 1954.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Bookstore ink stamp. About fine in the original acetate and paper dust jacket with two large sections missing and a couple small chips and tears.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Lewis Carroll. Useful and Instructive Poetry. Geoffrey Bles, 1954.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Lewis Carroll s first book, which he wrote and illustrated as a precocious boy of thirteen. Cream paper covered boards with green red and gilt illustrations and titles. Glassine dj with paper front flap as called for. Condition: Near fine. Rare to find with complete dustjacket. Faint foxing to endpapers. Size: 7.5. x 5 inches / 19 x 13 cm. 45 pages. Weight: 160g.
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Carroll, Lewis. Useful And Instructive Poetry. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1954.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Sm. 8vo., pictorial cream cloth, decorated in gilt, red and light green; publisher's fragile "transmatic" dust jacket, with complete printed paper front flap. First edition. A handsome copy.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Carroll, Lewis. (Association Copy) Useful and Instructive Poetry. Geoffrey Bles, London, 1954.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED AND INSCRIBED at front end page -"Enid Shawyer from N. & V. Dodgson June 1954". Presented by descendants of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, to Carroll's friend Enid Stevens nee Shawyer, who he first met February 21, 1891, and they were friends until his death in 1898. Carroll wrote Useful and Instructive Poetry in 1845 when he was 13 years old for his younger brother and sister. Bound in pictorial cream cloth decorated and lettered in gilt, red and light green in publisher's original acetate dust jacket, Very Good, boards somewhat toned and soiled, in a Very Good acetate and paper dust wrapper, chips to the acetate at the edges. A marvelous Association Copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.