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Stephens, James.. The Crock of Gold.. London, Macmillan., 1926.
Price: US$141.95 + shipping
Description: VII, 227pp. With 12 colour plates and decorative headings and tailpieces by Thomas Mackenzie. Contemp. full green morocco, richly gilt, a.e.g. (signed: Sangorski & Sutcliffe for the J. L. Hudson Company). In slip-case. Spine faded. A very good copy in a decorative binding.
Seller: Manfred Nosbuesch, Kuchenheim, Germany
Stephens, James. The Crock of Gold. Author signed limited edition.. London: Macmillan, 1926.
Price: US$226.13 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Folio, guarded colour frontispiece, vii, 228 p. 12 colour plates with captioned guard leafs by Thomas Mackenzie. Original cream quarter vellum or parchment, blue boards, gilt. Fore-corners just peeping, small light stain to the foot of the backstrip otherwise a fine tight copy. Limited edition, one of 525 copies signed by Stephens.
Seller: JIRI Books, Lisburn, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: One of 525 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the illustrator. Quarto (28.75cm); bluish-gray and vellum paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [ii],viii,228pp, with black & white vignettes throughout the text, and frontispiece + 11 color illustrations by Thomas MacKenzie. Light wear to spine ends, mild dust-soil to backstrip, with some gentle bumping and modest wear (and some resulting board exposure) to corners; contents fresh; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. Handsome edition of the Irish author's 1912 comic novel.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Stephens, James. THE CROCK OF GOLD. Macmillan & Co: London, 1926.
Price: US$402.50 + shipping
Description: Illus by Thomas Mackenzie, 9 x 6", full brown leather, gilt-ruled, with gilt leprechaun and pot on cover, aeg, signed binding by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, England.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed.Ltd. to 525 copies. Signed by Stephens. Large copy. fine. d.j. is frayed and dusty. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
Stephens, James. The Crock of Gold (signed limited). Macmillan, London, 1926.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 525 copies printed on handmade paper. 4to, quarter vellum blue/green boards. Gilt titles on spine. Illustrated with 12 mounted color plates with captioned tissue guards and decorative chapter headings and and tail pieces, all by Thomas MacKenzie. Signed by the author James Stephens, quite boldly, on the limitation page. Light mottling to 1/4 vellum spine; a touch of wear to tips, else fine. Front and rear boards very clean.
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
STEPHENS, JAMES. The Crock of Gold. Macmillan and Co Ltd, London, 1926.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Gilt lettered quarter vellum over baby blue paper boards. Wrapped in decorative dust jacket which has long tear and chips to the corners and tape to rear. Edition limited to 525 copies on hand made paper signed by the author. 12 colour plates. uncut pages. Some darkening to boards where dj is missing pieces o/w a near fine copy. Uncommon with jacket which is "almost" complete. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$523.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto, 11.25 in. x 7.9 in., pp. vi, [1], 228. Illustrated with color frontispiece with captioned tissue-guard, eleven other color glued-in prints, and ink headings and tailpieces by Thomas MacKenzie. Signed by the author on limitation page. One of 525 copies printed by R & R. Clark on handmade paper. Half vellum over light blue paper boards with gilt title to spine. Untrimmed edges. Light rubbing to extremities. Paper boards bubbling on lower right front corner. Two dime-sized brown stains to upper back board. Shelfwear to top/bottom of spine. Interior pages unmarked; pages and plates are bright. Vellum slipcase with cloth rim and purple interior. James Stephens (9 February 1880 - 26 December 1950) was an Irish novelist and poet. Stephens himself claimed to have been born on the same day and same year as James Joyce (2 February 1882), whereas he is in fact probably the same James Stephens who is on record as being born at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, on 9 February 1880, the son of Francis Stephens (c. 1840-1882/3), a vanman and a messenger for a stationer's office, and his wife, Charlotte Collins (b. c. 1847). His father died when Stephens was two years old, and when he was six years old, his mother remarried, and Stephens was committed to the Meath Protestant Industrial School for Boys in Blackrock, where he spent much of the rest of his childhood. By the early 1900s Stephens was increasingly inclined to socialism and the Irish language (he spoke and wrote Irish) and by 1912 was a dedicated Irish Republican. He was a close friend of the 1916 leader Thomas MacDonagh, who was then editor of The Irish Review and deputy headmaster in St Enda's, the radical bilingual Montessori school run by PH Pearse and later manager of the Irish Theatre. Stephens spent much time with MacDonagh in 1911. He worked as registrar in the National Gallery of Ireland between 1915 and 1925. James Stephens produced many retellings of Irish myths. His retellings are marked by a rare combination of humour and lyricism. He also wrote several original novels (The Crock of Gold, Etched in Moonlight, Demi-Gods) based loosely on Irish wonder tales. The Crock of Gold in particular has achieved enduring popularity and has often been reprinted. Stephens began his career as a poet under the tutelage of poet and painter Æ (George William Russell). Stephens's first book of poems, Insurrections, was published in 1909. His last book, Kings and the Moon (1938), was also a volume of verse. Thomas Mackenzie (1887-1944), an English artist and illustrator, was born in Bradford, England, Thomas Mackenzie was an artist, producing illustrations for books, and watercolours during the early 20th century. His earliest commissioned works for James Stephens'The Crock of Gold(1912) and Arthur Ransome'sAladdin and His Wonderful Lamp in Rhyme (1919). His illustrations are reminiscent of the work of his Art Nouveau peers, including Kay Nielsen and Harry Clarke. Very Good / Very Good (slipcase)
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.