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Price: US$1.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Reprint of 1929 Grove Edition first edition. Firmly bound with some handling wear and marks to boards. Cracked front internal spine hinge. Neatly signed inside by the previous owner.
Seller: Ryde Bookshop Ltd, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
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Condition: Good
Description: Hardback in good condition. Green cloth board cover. Markings to inside pages.
Seller: RIVERLEE BOOKS, Waltham Cross, HERTS, United Kingdom
Galsworthy John. The Island Pharisees. William Heinemann Ltd, 1929.
Price: US$5.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume from the works of John Galsworthy Grove edition. Full navy blue leather limp boards with gilt titles. 285pp.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
GALSWORTHY, JOHN. Fraternity. William Heinemann 1929, 1929.
Price: US$5.47 + shipping
Description: Duodecimo hardcover (VG), Volume 3 of The Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Grove Edition); 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
GALSWORTHY, JOHN. The Dark Flower. William Heinemann 1929, 1929.
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Description: Duodecimo hardcover (VG), Volume 5 of The Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Grove Edition); 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
Galsworthy John. A Modern Comedy, Volume III Swan Song. William Heinemann Ltd, 1929.
Price: US$6.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume III only. Volume from the works of John Galsworthy Grove edition. Full navy blue leather limp boards with gilt titles. Slight bumping. 394pp.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Galsworthy John. Beyond, A Narrative. William Heinemann Ltd, 1929.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume from the works of John Galsworthy Grove edition. Full navy blue leather limp boards with gilt titles. Slight bumping. 366pp.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$6.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume II only. Volume from the works of John Galsworthy Grove edition. Full navy blue leather limp boards with gilt titles. Slight bumping. 361pp. Slight marks.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
Galsworthy, John. The Dark Flower. William Heinemann, 1929.
Price: US$6.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dark Green boards Gilt text and design on spine and front cover. Some edge wear. Decorative end papers.Dedication inside (pencil dated 1932). Works of John Galsworthy, Grove edition no 5. Nice firm copy (B/s La).
Seller: Frans Books, Solva, Pembs, United Kingdom
Galsworthy. John.. The Patrician. William Heinemann Ltd, 1929.
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Condition: Good
Description: Volume 4 of the Grove edition works of Galsworthy Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
Galsworthy John. Fraternity. William Heinemann Ltd, 1929.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume from the works of John Galsworthy Grove edition. Full navy blue leather limp boards with gilt titles. Slight bumping. 368pp.
Seller: M and M Books, Barkway, HERTS, United Kingdom
John Galsworthy. A Modern Comedy Volume III: Swan Song. William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1929.
Price: US$11.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume 21 of the Grove Edition of the works of John Galsworthy. Volume III of III of A Modern Comedy. Bound in blue leather with gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine. Spine worn at ends; sunned. Two small holes to front joint. Book block in excellent condition save for water line to first few leaves.
Seller: The Calder Bookshop & Theatre, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$11.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume 13 of the Grove Edition of the works of John Galsworthy. Volume II of III of The Forsyte Saga. Bound in blue leather with gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine. Spine worn at ends; lightly sunned. Book block in excellent condition.
Seller: The Calder Bookshop & Theatre, London, United Kingdom
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume 14 of the Grove Edition of the works of John Galsworthy. Volume III of III of The Forsyte Saga. Bound in blue leather with gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine. Spine worn at ends; lightly sunned. Book block in excellent condition.
Seller: The Calder Bookshop & Theatre, London, United Kingdom
John Galsworthy. A Modern Comedy Volume III: Swan Song. William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1929.
Price: US$11.53 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume 21 of the Grove Edition of the works of John Galsworthy. Volume III of III of A Modern Comedy. Bound in blue leather with gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine. Spine worn at ends; sunned. Two small holes to front joint. Book block in excellent condition save for water line to first few leaves.
Seller: The Calder Bookshop & Theatre, London, United Kingdom
John Galsworthy. Saint's Progress. William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1929.
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Condition: Good
Description: Volume 8 of the Grove Edition of the works of John Galsworthy. Bound in blue leather with gilt lettering and decoration to front cover and spine. Spine worn at ends; lightly sunned. Water damage to front cover has resulted in slight discoloration and line running through book block but no other defect. Book block in excellent condition.
Seller: The Calder Bookshop & Theatre, London, United Kingdom
Schalit Leon. John Galsworthy: A Survey. William Heinemann, London, 1929.
Price: US$17.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. A very good copy in publisher's black cloth with title in gilt on spine. No inscriptions and not foxed. 333 pages. Very good complete dustwrapper which is a little darkened on spine and which is protected in a removable cover. This book is a clear and appreciative survey of Mr. Galsworthy's works. A nice copy overall.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1929. 34 stories. Hardback. Dark-red cloth; gilt lettered spine. In white and pink pictorial (photograph of the author) dust-jacket. **Inscribed and Signed By John Galsworthy to fly-leaf: 'For Cecil Palmer - Stacy's friend Presented from John Galsworthy + C.S. Graws, Nov. 1929'.**. No other markings. Bright, tight and clean. Internally clean throughout. Minor wear and a few minor marks to binding. In chipped and worn jacket with tears (majority complete). GOOD in average jacket; now in an archival quality clear protective sleeve. Scarce in its jacket. (xii), 644 pages. Only 5 libraries hold copies in the UK: no copy in Cambridge or Trinity College Dublin. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. STACY AUMONIER (1877-1928) was a British writer, sometimes mistakenly credited as Stacey Aumonier. Between 1913 and 1928, he wrote more than 85 short stories, 6 novels, a volume of character studies, and a volume of 15 essays. It was as a short-story writer that he was most highly regarded. Nobel Prize winner (and Forsyte Saga author) John Galsworthy described Stacy Aumonier as 'one of the best short-story writers of all time' and predicted that, through the best of his stories, he would outlive all the writers of his day'. James Hilton (author of Goodbye, Mr Chips and Lost Horizon) said of Aumonier: 'I think his very best works ought to be included in any anthology of the best short stories ever written'.Asked to choose 'My Favourite Short Story' for the March 1939 edition of Good Housekeeping, James Hilton chose a story by Aumonier, 'The Octave of Jealousy' (included in this collection), which the magazine described as a 'bitterly brilliant tale'. His short stories were published in 6 volumes during his lifetime, and in at least 25 different U.K. and U.S. magazines. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Galsworthy, John. A Modern Comedy. William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1929.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small 8vo (7 5/8" x 5 1/4"), green cloth with gold lettering on spine and cover, foldout Forsyte genealogical tree at front, Mylar-protected light green lettered dust jacket (unclipped), top edge stained green for dust protection, xvii + 1088 pages. Sequel to The Forsyte Saga. Contents include: The White Monkey, A Silent Wooing, Passers By, and Swan-Song. John Galsworthy OM (1867 - 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. SUPERIOR COPY with tight, bright, clean contents (though a bit of original printer's ink at edges of half title). Dust jacket is Fine though with slight sunning to backstrip.
Seller: Borg Antiquarian, Lake Forest, IL, U.S.A.
John Galsworthy. A Modern Comedy. William Heinemann, London, 1929.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Description: The first edition of this fictional work from the 'Forsyte saga' series by John Galsworthy. The first edition.In a green half morocco with cloth to the boards. Raised bands and gilt details to the spine.Bound by Charles J Sawyer Bookseller with signature to the front blank.With a folding frontispiece Forsyte family tree.This work was written by Nobel prize winning author John Galsworthy. This work is part of the author's 'Forsyte Saga' and follows the main character Fleur Forsyte as her new marriage is haunted by the ghost of a past love affair. In half morocco with cloth to the boards. Externally very smart with only light fading to the spine and the odd minor mark. Light spotting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned pages and spotting to the front and rear blanks. Spotting to the fore edge. Binder's signature to the front blank. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
John Galsworthy. A Modern Comedy. William Heinemann, London, 1929.
Price: US$204.94 + shipping
Description: A lovely signed, limited edition of all three books in John Galsworthy's A Modern Comedy trilogy. A limited edition copy of this work, with only 1030 copies being printed. This volume is number 474 and is signed and inscribed by the author.A Modern comedy is the second trilogy of The Forsyte Chronicles. This volume contains the three books which make up A Modern Comedy, The White Monkey, The Silver Spoon and Swan Song. The Forsyte Saga chronicles the lives of the members of an upper-midlde-class English family.John Galsworthy was an English novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 for the Forsyte Saga.With a folding Forstye family tree to the beginning of the volume.In the original slipcase. In a full vellum binding. Externally, very smart with some light marks to the boards and spine. Slipcase has some tape to the head and a few marks. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$265.14 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Type: Z A 20 volume set of the Works of John Galsworthy in deep blue (faded to black along the spines). Gilt embossed lettering to the spine and front board. Uniformly bound in soft blue leather. Upper edges gilt and a purple cloth page divider to each volume. Decorative end papers. Titles are the Island Pharisees, The Country House, Fraternity, The Patrician, The Dark Flower, The Freelands, Beyond, Saint's Progress, Villa Rubein, The Burning Spear, The Inn of Tranquility, ( Volumes 1 - 11); Satires and a Commentary, Caravan I A Stoic, Caravan II The Apple Tree, Caraven III The First and the Last, A Modern Comedy I- The White Monkey A Silent Wooing, A Modern Comedy II - The Silver Spoon Passers By, A Modern Comedy III - A Swan Song, ( Volumes 15-21); Candlabra, Maid In Waiting ( Volumes 23-23). The books have light rubbing to the head and tail of the spines. A couple of niks to the head of the spine of The Dark Flower with a slight nik to the centre of the spine. Candelabra has rubbing with slight loss to the leatherette at the head of the spine and a couple of small areas of loss of the binding to the spine strip below the gilt embossed design on the spine. Nik of 0.3 cm to the head of the spine of a Modern Comedy II and also to Fraternity, the latter has a slight chip of loss assocaited with this.Significant rubbing and fraying to the head of the spine of Caravan II. A few corners are very slightly turned in. To summarise, ten very attractive bindings, 4 lightly rubbed to head or tail of spine and around 6 with some more noticable damage. A very good, most attractive part part set.
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Description: A Wonderful Example of Miss Currie's Work FORE-EDGE PAINTING. MISS C.B. CURRIE, artist. RIVIÈRE & SON, binders. GALSWORTHY, John. A Modern Comedy. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1929. With a very fine fore-edge painting by Miss C.B. Currie of Mapledurham, Oxfordshire (from The Forsyte Saga). Inserted limitation leaf at front "This is No. 160 of the Books/with Fore-edge Paintings/by/Miss Currie/The Painting under the gold/is a view of/Mapledurham./Signed/ C.B. Currie" First edition. Octavo (7 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches; 180 x 117 mm.). [ii, Miss Currie signed limitation, verso blank], [i]-xxvii, [i, blank], [1]-1088 pp. Inserted folded "Forsyte Family Tree" (small neat repair to one fold). Bound ca. 1930 by Rivière & Son for Henry Sotheran. Full dark blue straight-grain morocco, covers elaborately tooled in gilt and blind, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt and blind, and lettered in gilt in compartments. Gilt -ruled board edges, gilt decorated turn-ins, gray endpapers, all edges gilt. A very fine example housed in a custom made felt-lined black cloth clamshell case with black leather label on spine lettered in gilt. "The miniature painter "Miss C.B. Currie" (b. December 12, 1849; d. April 2, 1940) was one of the most prominent fore-edge artists in the twentieth century. A master of the art of miniature painting, she excelled as a copyist working for Henry Sotheran Booksellers, London. She became famous for her miniature paintings applied to two art forms. First on ivory, mounted on Rivière bindings and named by her employer as "Cosway" bindings. Later she expanded her work into the art of painting on the fanned edge of a book -- called a fore-edge painting. Most of these paintings were signed and numbered by the artist. Whereas fore-edge painting history is replete with unknown artists, Currie is a notable exception. Even today, many fore-edge artists remain anonymous. In the book world, the name Miss C.B. Currie is widely recognized, yet her personal life and real name remained guarded and unknown until now. It turns out her name was, in fact, partly a pseudonym. Though her work is highly prized, there is no known published biography. Her correct full name was recently discovered to be Caroline Billin Curry. During her entire artistic career Curry used the slightly altered version of her name "Currie". Her true full name is not to be found in any published record of her work from Sotheran's. Her private affairs remain mostly unknown to us, and sadly no portrait photograph is known. The earliest year Currie fore-edge paintings appear in Sotheran catalogues is a 1913 supplemental leaf, and after that not until 1924 (see Currie 20). Since nineteen fore-edge paintings were made prior to 1924 and none of these appear in the Sotheran catalogues available to me from 1910-1923, it is unclear as to when the fore-edge painting effort really began. She may have made a few fore-edge paintings from ca. 1911 to 1914, and then discontinued until after the war. The number 172 was reached by 1931 and it seems unlikely that many more were done after that date." (Weber. Catalogue Raisonné (2010) p. 273. . Provenance: Sotheran's catalogue 819 supplement, item 1690, illustrated; Christie's, London, 29th Ocotber, 1969, lot 19, purchased by E. Joseph, London; Brauun Rasmussen 6th December 2005; New England Book Auction 18th April, 2006 purchased by Jeff Weber; Sold to Randall Moscovitz (2007). Weber. Annotated Dictionary of Fore-Edge Painting. Catalogue Raisonné No. 160 (p. 344 with photograph).
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.