Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$990.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Dulac edition. Deluxe issue, one of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist. 4to. Original brown morocco gilt. A handsome copy of the superior issue of Dulac's rendering of these fairy tale classics. Rebacked preserving spine, a very good copy.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Author: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, EDMUND DULAC (illustrator). Title: SLEEPING BEAUTY and Other Fairy Tales From the Old French. Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910. First edition, number 61 of 1000 copies in the Edition de Luxe. Signed by Edmund Dulac. Language: Text in English. Size: 12.5 " X 10.5 ". Pages: 128 pages. Binding: Attractive and fine half morocco leather binding (hinges fine - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Upper edge gilt. A beautiful binding! Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, lower inner corner of four illustrations lightly creased - as shown, including a flyer for the Dulac's Sleeping Beauty 1910 Exhibition at the rear - as shown). Illustrations: Complete with the wonderful 30 color plates by EDMUND DULAC. **** The book: Attractive and exquisite First edition, number 61 of 1000 copies in the Edition de Luxe signed by Edmund Dulac of those beautifully illustrated Fairy tales including The Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella, and Beauty and the Beast.
Seller: MFLIBRA Antique Books, MONTREAL, QC, Canada
Price: US$1279.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of the limited edition of Sleeping Beauty signed by Edmund Dulac. No 598 of 1,000. In the original full morocco leather binding with gilt decoration to boards and spine, with tipped-in frontispiece and 29 further colour plates. Top page edges gilted. The binding has been rebacked, preserving the original spine which has some loss at the top. It is sound and tight with newer endpapers and initial and final blanks. There is slight colour variation to the front board and some scuffing to the middle of the back board. Edges and corners are lightly rubbed. There is a loose flyer for the exhibition of Dulac's art work for the book, which ran from November 19th to Christmas of 1910. Contents: half title; frontispiece with guard; title; preface; illustration list; preface; text 129 pp with 29 tissue-guarded plates. The original blanks are browned to one side. There is a small tear in the bottom edge of the tissue guard to the plate at p40; a mark to the guard, plate support and text page at p 48 in the bottom corner; and light marking to the side edge of p 56 which is also present on the side edge of the plate support. There is the occasional light mark, generally to margins or guards but the book is otherwise clean and sound. The plates are in very good clean condition. This is one of Dulac's finest works, produced at a time when book illustration had reached its peak. Please enquire if you would like to see further images.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Price: US$1640.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK VOLUME BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL FULL DECORATED LEATHER BINDING BUT WITH A LATER LEATHER SPINE ADDED, COMPLETE WITH ALL 30 TISSUE GUARDED MOUNTED PLATES BY DULAC, LIMITED TO 1000 SIGNED COPIES BY DULAC WITH THIS BEING NUMBER 897. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 13 x 10 INCHES. SOME RUBBING & A FEW SMALL CHIPS AT EDGES OF BOARDS, FRONT BOARD VERY SLIGHTLY BOWED, CORNERS BUMPED WITH SOME LOSS, FEW MINOR MARKS TO BOARDS, ENDPAPERS WITH MODERATE BROWNING, VERY OCCASIONAL FINGER MARK OR BLEMISH TO PAGES, TWO PLATES WITH SOME CREASES [SEE LAST IMAGE FOR EXAMPLE] ONE FURTHER PLATE WITH A VERY MINOR CREASE TO ONE CORNER, ONE TISSUE GUARD CREASED, FEW MINOR BUBBLES TO INNER FRONT BOARD, SLIGHT PLAY TO FRONT HINGE. OVERALL SOME FAULTS AS USUAL WITH THIS BOOK BUT STILL A VERY GOOD ACCEPTABLE COPY WITH BOARDS WELL ATTACHED & GILT TO BOARDS BRIGHT. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French Dulac Signed Spine leather torn open and chipped at upper portion. Moderate bump to upper corner tip, minor rubbing to other three. Offset tan to free endpapers. Owner's 1947 gift inscription to ffe. Very firm and square. Bright gilt, pages and plates. Edge worn but firm Slipcase. Copy #173. Not dated.[ca 1909-1910]. One of 1000 copies signed and numbered by Edmund Dulac, the Illustrator. Original full gilt decorated morocco. Top edge gilt, others rough-cut. 30 tipped-in color lithographics.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, one of 1,000 copies SIGNED by Dulac. The book is bound in the ORIGINA publisher's full reddish-brown levant morocco, boards and spine elaborately stamped in gilt with the thirty tipped-in color plates present. The binding is tight, with light wear to the boards and minor repair. The pages are clean with some discoloration to the endpapers. There is NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by Edmund Dulac on the limitation page.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$3858.83 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 571 of 1000 copies in the Edition de Luxe. Signed by Edmund Dulac. Large 4to. The original publisher's full red/brown crushed morocco binding decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. A bright near fine copy. Light rubs to the spine ends and joints, and a small mark to upper cover, though generally a very bright copy. Browning to free endpapers, the contents otherwise clean and fresh. Thirty colour plates mounted within a printed decorative border and with descriptive letterpress on the tissue guards. All plates fine and with no creasing. Loosely inserted is a Hodder and Stoughton leaflet advertising their other "Magnificent Colour Books" and denoting that copies of this edition de luxe are now "all sold". All 1000 copies of this book sold out as soon as they went on sale at the price of two guineas. The publishers advertised the book as "the most beautiful book ever published at a popular price". The illustrations are beautiful with rich colours and Dulac's wonderful dark blue skies and twinkling stars. Stories are The Sleeping Beauty, Blue Beard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. Grolier Childrens 62
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$6109.82 + shipping
Description: Deluxe signed limited edition, number 258 of 1,000 copies signed by the artist. This collection includes four classic French tales: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Blue Beard, and Beauty and the Beast. Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in green morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, pictorial onlay to front board, single gilt rule to boards, inner dentelles gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 30 mounted colour plates. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom