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Le Gallienne, Richard. Volumes in Folio. C. Elkin Mathews, At the Sign of the Bodley Head, London, 1889.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Blue paper-covered boards, cream spine with 4 raised bands and title label. Deckel edge pages. 1 of 250 copies. Some foxing in text and fore-edges. Front and rear endpapers browned.

Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.

LE GALLIENNE, Richard. Volumes in Folio. , 1889.

Price: US$95.43 + shipping

Description: First edition, one of 250 small-paper copies. 8vo., original grey boards, paper spine, printed label on spine. London: Elkin Mathews at the Sign of the Bodley Head. Spine slightly darkened, but an excellent copy, with the usual slight foxing.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

GALLIENNE, RICHARD LE.; .. VOLUMES IN FOLIO.. C. Elkin Mathews at the Sign of the Bodley Head.,1889., 1889.

Price: US$129.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: LIMITED EDITION, one of only 250 copies. First book to be published under the Bodley Head Imprint. The authors second book. Blue paper covered boards with cream paper spine. Degree of chipping on spine with uniform discolouration. Light foxing to some pages only. V. good.:

Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom

Le Gallienne, Richard. VOLUMES IN FOLIO [limited, signed edition]. C. Elkin Mathews at the Sign of the Bodley Head: London, 1889.

Price: US$137.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8.75 x 7", cloth backed boards, 89pp, covers heavily worn and stained (red ink near spine), spine cover gone, front cover and prelims detached, extremities bumped and worn, eps browned with glue staining, contents rather good, however. SWAF. LIMITED TO ONLY 50 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #22), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. The first book from The Bodley Head.

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

LE GALLIENNE, Richard. Volumes in Folio. , 1889.

Price: US$392.98 + shipping

Description: First edition, one of 250 small-paper copies. 8vo., original grey boards, paper spine, printed label on spine. London: Elkin Mathews at the Sign of the Bodley Head. A contemporary presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper ?Charles Sayle, from / his friend, / Richard le Gallienne / 21.3.89.? Le Gallienne's second book, and the first published by Elkin Mathews and the Bodley Head, combines sex and book-collecting in a novel way, creating a genre for himself. The Liverpool Mercury wrote of ?the erotic bibliophist's ideal? and the poet himself concludes that: There's many a lover worse than thoseCHAR(13) + CHAR(10)Who love their honest folios. Sayle combined the two appetites with a different recipe - under-librarian at Cambridge University Library, and author of homoerotic verse (among else): Le Gallienne name-dropped both Sayle and Wilde in a letter to his parents in 1889. Boards soiled, corners worn, front board hanging on by a few threads, and spine missing some pieces, preserved, skilfully, with a coat of dull-finish transparent glue. With the usual occasional bad foxing, including to the the preliminary leaves. Bookplate of Myrtle A. Crummer. Nelson, 1889.1/1.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

LE GALLIENNE, Richard. Volumes in Folio. , 1889.

Price: US$392.98 + shipping

Description: First edition, one of 250 small-paper copies. 8vo., original grey boards, paper spine, printed label on spine. London: Elkin Mathews at the Sign of the Bodley Head. 1889 A fine presentation copy inscribed by the author on the recto of the front free endpaper: ?To Gleeson White with the affectionate regard of Richard Le Gallienne. 22.3.'89.? With White's rather bizarre bookplate by Alan Wright: the text reads ?I sought peace everywhere and found it not save in nooks with books? and the image depicts Death and Time burning books. With the later small label of one Thomas D. Murphy - probably the American travel writer of that name. Crease forming down center of spine, with chipping at the foot and separation in paper beginning at the joints, the usual endemic foxing.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

LE GALLIENNE, Richard. Volumes in Folio. C. Elkins Mathews at the Sign of the Bodley Head, London, 1889.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Small folio. Quarter parchment and blue papercovered boards with printed spine label. Contemporary owner name, small white spot at top of the front board, very good or better. Copy number 30 of 50 numbered copies Signed by the author.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Le Gallienne, Richard. [Elkin Mathews- Association Copy] Volumes in Folio. C. Elkin Mathews, London, 1889.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Description: First printing. Original blue paper covered boards, cream colored spine with lettering in black. Association Copy: Inscribed by the famous San Francisco publisher to Dewitt Miller, acclaimed educator, journalist and book collector: (on front free fly) "To Mr. Dewitt Miller from Wm. Doxey San Francisco, July 8, 1899." As well, Miller has signed the book in four lines on the rear pastedown. An excellent copy of this scarce first trade title for Elkin Mathews, and the first to bear the "Bodley Head," imprint. Near fine with corner wear and usual 'point' browning due to acidic nature of paper.

Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.