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Wodehouse, P. G.. WILLIAM TELL TOLD AGAIN. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1904.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover; 8vo; 105 pages. First U.K. edition. Scarce. Orange cloth hardcovers, ill in green and orange with black titles and borders. Rubbed edges, bumped corners. Small tear in hinge near head-edge of bottom board. The cloth is moderately to heavily soiled. Foxed throughout. A number of sections shaken. Previous owner's signatures on the ffep. With four missing plates (plates, 2, 3, 5, and 16). 1ST UK EDITION. SCARCE. G/- -
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Wodehouse, P.G.. William Tell Told Again. A & C Black, London, 1904.
Price: US$195.70 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition/First issue published by Adam & Charles Black, London 1904. No publisher's address. With illustrations by Philip Dadd. Good clean condition. Mild spotting/Browning to endpages and page edges. All illustrations present but 3 are loose. Prize bookplate to ffeo. Clean cloth covers with some age marks
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P. G.. William Tell Told Again. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1904.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by Philip Dadd. Very good book, no dust jacket. First edition, SECOND or THIRD printing in light brown/gold cloth. 105 numbered pages with Epilogue on the verso to page 105, and two pages of ads at the back. Sixteen colored plates including frontispiece, all with captioned tissue-guards. Pictorial cloth binding, black lettering stamped on front panel, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, illustrations in green, yellow and black on front panel and spine. Upper external page edges are gilt. Boards are soiled, slightly more on the back panel, extremities a bit sunned. Upper and lower edges at head and tail of board spine are crimped and lightly scuffed but not rubbed through. Lower front right fore-edge corner is just barely rubbed through, the other three corners are scuffed but intact. Age-toning and foxing on side and lower page edges. End-papers have shadow-transfers and foxing. Text pages have foxing through-out but does not affect legibility. Gutter is cracked at pp. 64-65 but text block is still sound. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK and Canada will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher than the stated shipping costs. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P. G.. WILLIAM TELL TOLD AGAIN. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1904.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrations in colour by Philip Dadd. First edition, third issue. Hardcover. 9'' x 6 1/2''. 105pp. Two pages of ads. Toning to fly-leaf. Gift inscription to half-title. General light wear.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P.G.. William Tell Told Again. A & C Black, London, 1904.
Price: US$352.90 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition/First issue published by Adam & Charles Black, London 1904. No publisher's address. With illustrations by Philip Dadd. Good clean condition. Mild spotting/Browning to endpages and page edges. All illustrations present but 3 are loose. Prize bookplate to ffeo. Clean cloth covers with some age marks
Seller: Idlegeniusbooks, London, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P. G.. WILLIAM TELL TOLD AGAIN. Adam & Charles Black, 1904.
Price: US$435.00 + shipping
Description: WILLIAM TELL TOLD AGAIN, Adam & Charles Black, 1904, first edition, some light scattered foxing througout, red stain measuring about 7 cm long and 1/2 cm wide along lower outer front board at the hinge, else a tight vg copy in the publishers third issue pictorial yellow ochre binding with mustard, light green, dark green and dark brown stamping with t.p.e.'s in gold-gilt and 16 full page, full color illustrations by Philip Dadd.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
WODEHOUSE, P.G.. William Tell Told Again. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1904.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue binding of tan brown cloth. Date on titlepage. 2pp. ads. Topedge and spine title in gilt. Illustrated by Philip Dadd. Small quarto. A bit of foxing on the endpapers, very small marginal tear on last few leave, modest soiling on boards, very good or better.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wodehouse, P G. William Tell Told Again. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1904.
Price: US$500.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue. Published 1904. Original pictorial cloth covered hardback, no dust jacket, in very good clean condition, mild creasing to top and bottom of spine, title to spine sligtly faded but readable, some browning to endpapers. Content very good, no inscriptions or marks. Colour fontispiece with further 15 coloured ilustrations by Philip Dadd. ; Colour Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; vii, 105 pages
Seller: Horsham Rare Books, Horsham, United Kingdom
P G Wodehouse. William Tell Told Again. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1904.
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A good copy of the 1st impression of the 1st edition in the original decorative cloth binding with colour frontispiece and 15 further colour plates by Philip Dadd. The cream cloth binding has gilt titles to the front board and spine with a design in green and tan to the front. Top page edges gilted. The cream has darkened, particularly on the spine, and there is some scuffing to the cloth surface. The back board and spine have some light marking. Corners have some wear, particularly the bottom corner of the front board which has a bump and a cloth fray. Spine ends lightly pulled. Contents with half title; frontispiece; tissue guard; title with red publisher's emblem and without address details for the publisher; dedication; illustration list; poem; text with 15 tissue-guarded plates p 1-105; epilogue p 106; 2 pp publisher's ads at the rear, advertising The Gold Bat, The Pothunters, A Prefect's Uncle; and Tales of St Austin's. Contents are generally very clean and sound. There are a few light gilt ink squiggles at the front pastedown and free endpaper. Plate III has ragged tissue guard and side edge. There is occasional light foxing. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Wodehouse, P.G.. WILLIAM TELL TOLD AGAIN. Adam and Charles Black, London, 1904.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of Wodehouse's comic children's retelling of the William Tell legend, written "rapidly for cash rather than art" (Phelps) to accompany Dadd's existing illustrations, with verse accompaniments by John W. Houghton. 8.5'' x 6''. Original gilt-lettered cream pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece and 15 additional illustrations by Philip Dadd. 105, [1] pages, followed by [2] pages of advertisements. Though no provenance markings, this copy from the library of noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong. Contemporary ink gift inscription to front free endpaper. Spine and edges of boards toned, light soil to rear board. Shallow chip to head of spine, faint scattered foxing.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
P.G. Wodehouse. William Tell Told Again. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "William Tell Told Again" by P.G. Wodehouse. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (viii), 105, (1), (2) (ads) pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 15 plates by Philip Dadd. Original off-white pictorial cloth-covered boards, darkened, spotting to front and rear boards, stamped in gilt, green, black, and brown; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; ownership inscription on verso of front free endpaper, scattered spotting to text. Rare early Wodehouse title.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Wodehouse, P. G.. William Tell Told Again 1st issue. London, Adam & Charles Black,, 1904.
Price: US$898.29 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition First Impression London 1904. Complete with 2pp ads at rear and 16 plates. Text leaves with light to moderate foxing throughout although the plates remain very clean - see examples in photographs - more available on request. Top edge gilt. Fine clean and bright covers, internally without inscriptions or ink names, Presents beautifully on the shelf. [McIlvaine A5a.3], 1904, 8vo, Adam & Charles BlackNote 1st impression with red publisher's emblem to title, and with no address details for the publisher.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$1219.10 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue: with the title page dated 1904, two pages of advertisements at the end, and with gilt lettering on the front cover. William Tell Told Again was one of Wodehouse's earliest books, published prior to his success with the Jeeves stories. McIlvaine A5a. Small quarto. Original cream boards, spine and front cover lettered in gilt and illustrated in black, green, and brown, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 15 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, by Philip Dadd. Front pastedown with bookplate of Neil Munro, possibly the writer who used the pseudonym Hugh Foulis (1863-1930), and small bookseller's ticket of G. G. Walmsley, Liverpool; Christmas gift inscription dated 1906 on half-title verso. Toning to spine, soiling and a little rubbing to cloth, small red mark at head of front cover, inner hinges partially split, sporadic light foxing, colour plates bright. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
P.G. Wodehouse. William Tell Told Again. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "William Tell Told Again" by P.G. Wodehouse. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904. First edition, first issue. 8vo. (viii), 105, (1), (2) (ads) pp. Illustrated with frontispiece and 15 plates by Philip Dadd. Original off-white pictorial cloth-covered boards, darkened, light soiling to front and rear boards, a few small closed tears at spine ends, stamped in gilt, green, black, and brown; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; some pencil erasure on front free endpaper, hinge slightly cracked after first free endpaper, scattered spotting to text, top edge of plate facing p. 36 worn and darkened, some light edge wear to other plates. Rare early Wodehouse title.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Wodehouse, P.G.. William Tell Told Again. (In the Scarce Dustjacket). Adam & Charles Black, 1904.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, third issue, bound in finely woven tan pictorial cloth stamped brightly in green, yellow, and black on the front boards; with gilt lettering on the spine somewhat faded and brightly stamped green leaves and yellow columns along the spine. Top edges gilded. With 16 full page color illustrations by Philip Dadd throughout. Each brightly colored plate is preceded by a tissue guard with verses by John W. Houghton. This first edition has the publisher's (A&C Black) device printed in red on the title page as well as the publication date of 1904 according to the McIlvaine bibliography. Also printed on the bottom of the title page: "London/ Adam and Charles Black." There is scattered foxing throughout; three of the tissue guards towards the end have a faint bloom of dampstain at their center edges about the size of a dime. There are 2 pages of ads at the rear advertising 4 books by P.G. Wodehouse: "The Gold Bat," "The Pothunters," "A Prefect's Uncle," and "Tales of St. Austin's." While the hinges are tight, the front hinge has been expertly reglued at the bottom 2". In the very scarce original dustjacket printed in bright colors; the front panel features color plate #10 by Philip Dadd opposite page 60 in the book. The spine of the dustjacket, while chipped at the top and bottom ends has all the lettering intact. The price is printed at the bottom of the dustjacket spine: "Price 6/-net" above the publisher's name "Black". The rear panel features: "A selection of Black's Beautiful Books for Boys and Girls; the list of 25 titles begins with "Aesop's Fables" and ends with "Uncle Tom's Cabin." There are two closed curved tears of 1" and 2", respectively, beginning at the top of the rear panel. Light chipping and soiling to the edges with larger pieces missing at the top and bottom of the spine ends, but not affecting any of the lettering. This very scarce dustjacket is the same as the first edition, first issue dustjacket according to two major Wodehouse collectors and a prominent NYC Wodehouse dealer. Delightfully scarce.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.