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CRARY, Mary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard, London, 1939.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: 2 color plates by Edmund Dulac. 190pp. Small 4to, white cloth (rubbed and darkened). London: Hatchard, 1939. Very good. Presentation copy, signed by the author.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
CRARY, Mary.. The Daughters of the Stars.. Hatchard and Company, London, 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 190 pp. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Folio, publisher's vellum-backed boards with leather label on spine, in original glassine and printed dust jacket. First of this illustrated edition; probably the American issue; No. 115 of 500 copies signed by Dulac (but not by the author, though the limitation page calls for her signature as well). Very light spotting to vellum and a few spots of foxing to endsheets, else a nice copy. The jacket has a few small chips and scattered blue pencil marks.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
CRARY, Mary. DULAC, Edmund (illus.). The Daughters of the Stars.. Hatchard & Co., London, 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 190 [1] pp. Illustrated in color by Edmund Dulac. 4to, original vellum-backed cloth with gilt-lettered leather spine label. First edition; No. 439 of 500 copies, signed by Mary Crary and Edmund Dulac. A few tiny spots of foxing to preliminaries and the fore-edge; edges of the spine label a little ragged with minor use to binding; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Mary Crary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co., 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto. 10 1/4' x 8". 190pp Cream boards with green linen cloth. Black title label to spine. this is ocpy #288 of 500 and is signed by illustrator Edmund Dulac. Two full page color illustrations. Nice copy.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
(Dulac, Edmund) Crary, Mary. The Daughters of the Stars. Hatchard & Co, London, 1939.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Dulac, Edmund. First trade edition. 2 color plates, decorations by Edmund Dulac. 1 vols. 4to. Scarce Dulac ite, inscribed by the author Crary on the flyleaf in 1953. Beige cloth stamped in blind. Spine sunned, leather spine label chipped; internally very good, in publisher's box 2 color plates, decorations by Edmund Dulac. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Crary, Mary. DAUGHTERS OF THE STARS. Hatchard & Company, London, 1939.
Price: US$255.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 190 pp. Original gray cloth covers w/ vellum spine. Covers are discolored due to reaction w/ the glue used in binding. #62 of 500 copies. SIGNED BY MARY CRARY AND EDMUND DULAC. Foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Illust. w/ color plates. Contents nice.
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
CRARY, Mary. DULAC, Edmund (illus.). The Daughters of the Stars.. Hatchard & Co., London, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 190 [1] pp. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Folio, publisher's cloth and boards in dust jacket and glassine. First edition; No. 237 of 500 copies signed by Mary Crary and Edmund Dulac. Slightly bumped at corners; otherwise a fine copy in a jacket with light dust-soiling to the rear panel, and a snag/chip at one corner. The endsheets are free of the usual foxing.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$323.09 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition, 500 copies, signed by Edmund Dulac & Mary Crary. Some foxing mostly to endpapers. Top corner of front free endpaper cut across. Quarter vellum and cloth sides with black leather titling label. some light marking, else good crisp copy. 190 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 190 pgs. Vellum backed cloth boards, blue spine label. a tiny bit of wear to edge of spine label, else fine and clean, housed in a later slip case which has a long abrasion to one panel. Illustrated with 2 color plates, there would have been more if the book had not been rushed to publication to avoid WWII paper restrictions. Limited Edition #371/500, signed by Dulac and Crary on the limitation page. A delightful modern fairy tale. Hughey 91a. Size: 4to
Seller: E. M. Maurice Books, ABAA, Torrington, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1292.34 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 424 of 500 copies signed by both author and illustrator. "Publication of this book encountered delays and difficulties because of the outbreak of World War II. Since paper and workmen were fast being commandeered by the British government, the book was rushed into print despite the fact that only two Dulac illustrations were finished" (Hughey). Dulac designed the entire format of the volume, including chapter head and tail scroll designs. Hughey 91. Quarto. Original quarter vellum, grey cloth boards, dark blue morocco label to spine. With dust jacket. Housed in a dark blue morocco solander box. With 2 colour plates. Edges of boards and margins of text block slightly toned, the price-clipped dust jacket chipped at head of spine and with small minor tears on back lower edge, an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom