Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$258.72 + shipping
Description: No. 147 of a Limited Edition of 325 signed by the author. Coloured frontispiece and two plates, many other plates in b&w, head & tail pieces. 4to (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches), pages: viii:189, original parchment boards blocked in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Binding spotted and browned, crack to outer upper joint and backstrip lifting (inner joint firm however), headbands chipped, internally very good and clean.
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: viii, 193 pp. With Illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Large 8vo, publisher's gilt dark blue cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Light foxing to the preliminary leaves, including the title page signed by the author. Slightly bumped at corners and slight use at extremities of spine; tight and sound in a jacket with small chips at corners and the top of the spine, affecting the top line of the lettering. Signed by Walter De la Mare on the title page.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Walter De La Mare. Down-ADown-Derry. Constable, London, 1922.
Price: US$415.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very nice copy, bound in vellum now with some browning as all these limited editions are, this is limited to 325 copies no 124 signed in ink by Walter De La Mare , Title , name and date 1922 on the spine in gilt again on the front board with a picture in a square of a little imp sitting on a frog in a bush again in gilt, Top edge Git all text pages rough cut first endpaper browned , with the book plate of Waldo C Hodgdon, signed by Walter on the back of the half title page and numbered. There are three charming colour plates and each of the 61 poems and stories for children have a black and white plate to accompany them. Rear endpaper is also browned , Book is very clean and tight a super copy. 193pp.
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Price: US$438.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition, First Print. This is a true first edition, first printing (first impression) of the limited edition. Limited to 325 copies with three colour plates, including frontispiece, numerous letterpress illustrations, many full-page, top edges gilt, remainder rough-trimmed, original gilt decorated vellum (some aging, spotting) , spine ends very slightly rubbed, small knock to one corner, internally bright pages, unread in a tight binding, slight offsetting to endpages. Very good plus to near fine. Signed by Walter e La Mare to the limitation page [56]
Seller: Kelleher Rare Books, Naas, IE, Ireland
DE LA MARE, Walter.. Down-Adown-Derry: A Book of Fairy Poems.. Constable & Co.,, London:, 1922.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrations include three color plates. Limited edition: this copy is number 302 of 325 copies. SIGNED by the author on the limitation page. Some age toning and soiling to boards, offsetting to free endpapers, else very good in a cream vellum binding with gilt lettering and design, top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Binding is sound.; 193 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
De La Mare,Walter (Signed Limited Edition). Down-Adown-Derry. Constable and Co Ltd, London, 1922.
Price: US$496.75 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is a Fine Copy of this book superbly bound in lavish Half Tan Calf over light green and brown marbled boards.Top edge of the book is in gilt and other page edges are untrimmed.produced on hand made paper.There are five raised bands to spine with gilt title lettering in the 2nd,3rd and 4th compartment to spine,other compartments with decorative gilt designs.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness and the contents are lovely bright and clean without any foxing.Illustrated with three colour plates and further b&w drawings by Dorothy P Lathrop.Handsomely Bound and this book would certainly grace any bookshelf.Published in London by Constable 1922 First Limited Edition Number 106 of 325 numbered and Signed copies by Walter De La Mare.This is the nicest copy we have had in stock of this uncommon and beautifully illustrated Fairy Tale book which would make for a wonderful gift,4to 190pp 1922
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
de la Mare, Walter. Down-Adown-Derry A book of Fairy Poems. Constable & Co., London, 1922.
Price: US$517.45 + shipping
Description: No. 67/325 Ltd ed. Signed by the Author. Full blue claf binding has 1 incg split to top of spine at back. New marbled effect endpapers. Please see photographs for condition and binding.
Seller: Peak Dragon Bookshop 39 Dale Rd Matlock, Matlock, DERBY, United Kingdom
DE LA MARE, Walter. Down-Adown-Derry; A Book of Fairy Tales. Constable, London, 1922.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 3 color plates and other illustrations by Dorothy P. Lathrop. Untrimed pages, 8vo, handsomely rebound in 3/4 beige morocco, black spine label, top edge gilt. London: Constable, (1922). Limited Edition. Fine. One of 325 numbered and signed copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
de la Mare, Walter; Lathrop, Dorothy. DOWN-ADOWN-DERRY. Constable & Co. Ltd, London, 1922.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed limited first edition of this book of fairy poems, one of only 325 numbered copies signed by de la Mare, unusually well preserved in the delicate original binding. Quarto. 10'' x 7''. Original paper parchment-like boards, gilt-stamped central vignette, gilt-lettered spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Illustrated by Lathrop with 3 full-page tissue-guarded color plates plus a profusion of truly beautiful black-and-white full-page plates that reproduce with much detail and clarity on the fine quality paper. viii, 193, [1] pages. Signed by de la Mare on limitation page. Offsetting to endpapers. Only slight cover soil, with less of the usual darkening that tends to affect this edition.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.