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Price: US$232.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama No. 11, 15 preliminary pages, 75 pages, very good condition in decorated paper covered boards and parchment spine (slightly darkened), gilt titled on spine, boards dust marked and browned, corner of boards worn and edges of boards rubbed, text in fine, clean condition, number 10 of 100 copies printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper and signed by the author.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$388.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The deluxe issue of the first edition, printed at The Shakespeare Head Press on Kelmscott hand-made paper, limited to 100 numbered copies signed by the author (this being #1). 8vo. xv, 75pp. White parchment with decorated paper covered sides, with very slightly defective gold lettering to the spine. A touch of wear to the extremities. A trace of near-invisible toning to the free endpapers. Several gatherings uncut at the upper edge. A very good copy, lacking the original unprinted tissue protector but with a new sheet of acetate supplied. Issued as the eleventh number of The British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama series. Higginson A13b.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, limited no. 97/100, signed by author, some pages in text block are uncut, has very light bumps to spine ends and corners, light tanning to boards, wear along top and bottom edges of boards, light, faint soiling to front pastedown and first free endpage, and top edge of text block is a little dusty, otherwise a solid, VG copy.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Graves Robert. John Kemp's Wager a Ballad Opera. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1925.
Price: US$407.49 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: (xv) 75pp. No.53 of 100 copies on Kelmscott paper. Faint offsetting at first and last blanks. A few spots of foxing at tail of rear board.
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
GRAVES Robert. John Kemp's Wager. A Ballad Opera. , 1925.
Price: US$419.13 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo., original quarter vellum over white boards with patterened sides laid on as issued, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, Publisher to the Shakespeare Head Press of Stratford-upon-Avon. One of 100 copies printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper, this copy number 80, signed by the author. No. 11 in the British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama. It is dedicated, touchingly, ?To my friend Ernest Neale of Islip Post Office? Corners bumped, bookplate to front pastedown, without the original unprinted glassine dust jacket. Higginson & Williams A13b.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
GRAVES, Robert. John Kemp's Wager: A Ballad Opera. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1925.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, quarter parchment & patterned boards, plain dust jacket. Superb copy, virtually as new. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper & signed by Graves. Higginson & Williams A13b.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
GRAVES, Robert.. John Kemp's Wager - A Ballad Opera. Basil Blackwell, Oxford., 1925.
Price: US$743.83 + shipping
Description: First edition. The British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama No. 11. Octavo. pp xvi, 75. Number 91 of 100 copies printed on Kelmscott hand-made paper and signed by the author. Parchment backed decorated paper boards. A five-act play preceded by a three page Author's Note. Pasted over the front endpapers is a Typed Letter Signed, dated 29th November 1928, on headed notepaper, from the literary agents James B. Pinker & Sons to the author: ''I have just heard from New York that they have succeeded in getting five dollars a performance out of the people who did 'John Kemp's Wager'. The performances were only for children and the promoters declared they lost money on them so Mr. Eric Pinker thought it best to agree to this amount.''. The author has written on the letter: ''This is a lie for a start [i.e. that the performances were only for children]. I suppose 1/2 a loaf is better than no bread but they certainly did not lose from the performance to judge from accounts I received of the reception. Eric Pinker should have consulted me before accepting I think. R.G.''Covers a little marked and rubbed at the edges. Bottom corners of covers slightly bumped. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: A very good and tight copy in the very scarce oringinal acetate wrapper. LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, #42 OF 100 COPIES. Printed on Kelmscott hand made paper. Copy is square and tight, top corners are rubbed and very lightly bumped. Vellum spine with paper boards. Acetate wrapper is chipped and missing some pieces.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.