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Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover in blue boards with embossed illustration in silver without dustjacket; 108 pages with 9 tipped in plates and printed tissue guards; signed by William Nicholson and numbered 368/380; covers good with small losses to top and bottom of darkened spine and yellowing to edges of covers; internally very good. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Gay, John. Polly. William Heinemann, London, 1923.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 105 pages. 26.5 x 21 cm. Polly: An Opera, copy 311 of 350 on hand made paper is signed by William Nicholson in red ink. Tipped-in color plates with lettered tissue guards. "Polly" was a sequel to the "Devil's Opera," was produced in 1777. Polly is Polly Peachum, better known to us via Brecht's "Three Penny Opera." Edges, corners rubbed, spotting to covers. Black cloth spine and pale blue boards lettered an decorated in gilt. Teg. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
John Gay. Polly. William Heinemann, London, 1923.
Price: US$109.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A beautifully illustrated edition of Polly by John Gay, limited edition signed by the illustrator William Nicholson. Limited edition of Polly by John Gay in the original publisher's cloth binding.With illustrations by William Nicholson. Signed by the artist to the limitation page. This is copy number 111 out of 380 printed.Collated and complete with nine colour plates and tissue guards.Polly is a ballad opera first performed in 1777. A revised and edited version debuted in 1922. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, very smart. There is some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Gay, John. POLLY - AN OPERA. , 1923.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: (Nicholson, William)illus. POLLY - AN OPERA by John Gay. Heinemann, London, 1923. Limited edition of 380 copies, signed by William Nicholson. 4to., cloth, 106pp., 9 tipped-on color plates. VG, with light edgewear to the cloth, residue on the front pastedown from removal of a bookplate, and a small loss to margin of one plate (Molly Brazen).
Seller: Edward T. Pollack, ABAA, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, Number 235 of 385 copies on hand-made paper and signed by the Artist, William Nicholson. 9 full page tipped-in color Drawings by William Nicholson. xvi, [1]- 107, [3] pp. 1 vols. 4to. The Sequel to The Beggar's Opera, Signed by Nicholson. Full blue cloth, stamped in silver and black, t.e.g., rest uncut, unopened. Covers a bit rubbed and soiled, three plates torn and creased 9 full page tipped-in color Drawings by William Nicholson. xvi, [1]- 107, [3] pp. 1 vols. 4to First edition thus, Number 235 of 385 copies on hand-made paper and signed by the Artist, William Nicholson.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 107 [2] pp. Tipped-in color plates by William Nicholson. Large 8vo, publisher's blue cloth stamped in silver and black. First edition; No. 153 of 380 copies, signed by William Nicholson. Slight rubbing to extremities of the binding; clean, tight and sound. An unopened copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, Number 335 of 350 signed by the artist. 9 full page color Drawings by William Nicholson. 1 vols. 4to. The Sequel to The Beggar's Opera, Signed by Nicholson. Half cloth and blue boards. Frontispiece plate slightly bent, slightly rubbed, else almost Fine 9 full page color Drawings by William Nicholson. 1 vols. 4to First edition, Number 335 of 350 signed by the artist.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.