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Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The preferred edition limited to 1000 sets of which this is #378 and signed by the publishers and printer on the limitation page of Auld Light Idylls. Bound in quarter blue cloth, grey boards with gilt titles on front board and spine a Kirriemuir medallion in gilt on the rear boards. Slipcases are present for eight of the ten volumes, each holding two volumes and lacking the one for Peter and Wendy and The Little White Bird. Slipcased volumes include Auld Light Idylls, Better Dead, My Lady Nicotine, The Little Minister, Tommy and Grizel, Sentimental Tommy, A Window in Thrums/Margaret Ogilvy and When a Man's Single. Books are in Near Fine to Fine condition with tanning to the endpapers in all volumes. The slipcases are somewhat worn with some splitting to the edges and faded titles on the spines. A heavy set, special shipping consideration will apply for overseas orders.
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, Canada
J. M. Barrie. Quality Street. Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1913.
Price: US$180.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A colourfully illustrated edition of J. M. Barrie's comical play, signed by Barrie to the half-title. Signed by J. M. Barrie to the half-title.The trade edition.Illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, seventeen tipped-in colour plates, and monochrome illustrations.Collated, complete.'Quality Street' is a comical play by J. M. Barrie. The play follows two sisters, Phoebe and Susan, as they start a school for 'genteel children', trying to get the attention of an old suitor who went away to war.The play was written before Barrie's famous 'Peter Pan', and it opened on Broadway in 1901, with the cast including Seymour Hicks, Ellaline Terriss, Marion Terry, and Irene Rooke.J. M. Barrie is best known for his work 'Peter Pan'. His other works, including this play, were popular, but often overshadowed by the success of 'Peter Pan'.Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Thomson was an Irish illustrator, who did pen-and-ink illustrations for editions of works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J. M. Barrie. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is discoloured and lightly rubbed. Small marks to the rear board. Prior owner's ink inscription to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned with some scattered spots. Author's inscription to the half-title is rubbed. Tissue guard to the frontispiece is detaching. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom