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Price: US$26.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION. This copy SIGNED by illustrator Rowland Wheelwright in black ink on limitation page, as called for. Hand-numbered "310" of 1000 copies. Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright. With all 16 full-page colour plates, including frontispiece, as issued. Limitation page notes: "Edition limited to One Thousand copies for England and One Thousand copies for the United States, of which this is No. 310 of the English issue" (signed below "R. Wheelwright"). Several pages unopened. Bound in publisher's original brown buckram with gilt-ruled border to front board, gilt lettering on dark brown leather label to spine, top edge gilt, both fore-edge & lower edge uncut. Slight handling wear, hinges cracked & tender (but holding), mild toning to endpapers, some small margin tears (not affecting text, which are due to pages being cut open roughly), otherwise overall a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 728pp. Heavy large book. Scarce signed copy. SB-14.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. George G. Harrap & Co. , Ltd, 1925.
Price: US$29.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 728 pages; Signed by Illustrator
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Number 839 of 1000 copies of the English issue. Signed by Wheelwright on the limitation page. Ex libris with bookplate mostly removed from the front pastedown (see photo). The binding is tight, corners sharp. Some light handling and soiling on the boards, toning along the spine. Text and images unmarked. Inventory number written on the rear pastedown. Gilt top edge lightly rubbed, other edges untrimmed. 8vo. 725pp.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1925.
Price: US$57.89 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No 364 of a limited edition of 1000. 728pp; illustrated by coloured plates, all present. Signed by the illustrator. Brown. buckram-covered boards with gilt decoration. Leather label on the spine, some rubbing; wear at the spine ends. Previous owner's small sticker on the front pastedown, gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Top edge gilt, leading and bottom edges uncut. Natural ageing to the paper. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics.
Seller: Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA, HINDHEAD, United Kingdom
Fielding, Henry. THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES. George G. Harrap & Company, London, 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 728 pages; Copy #852 of 1000 from the English edition. Signed by the illustrator, Rowland Wheelwright. The binding has soiling along with some light rubbing and some wear. A nice solid copy. Limited copy. ; Signed by Illustrator
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. George G. Harrap, London, 1925.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: With illustrations by Rowland Wheelwright. Edition limited to 1,000 copies for England and 1,000 copies for the U.S., of which this is No. 419 of the English issue. Signed by the illustrator. 728pp. Minimal shelfwear, inscription on yellowed flyleaf, pages else good, clean and tight condition
Seller: J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB, Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.
Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones A Foundling. George G. Harrap & Co, 1925.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paneled calf, five raised hubs, decorated end-papers, 728pp., this is #802 of 1,000 copies made for England - there were also a thousand for USA. Signed by illustrator beneath the Limited Edition number. Most of this edition were not bound in leather but this appears to be original binding - full leather. No writing in the book - not even an owners name. Full refund if not satisfied.
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$482.39 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 767 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator and issued in England, with a further 1,000 copies issued in the US. A beautifully illustrated edition of Fielding's masterpiece, which, along with Joseph Andrews, "established the tradition of the comic novel in English" (ODNB). An experimental writer who thoroughly ruffled the feathers of his contemporary literary establishment, Fielding is now "generally agreed to be an innovating master of the highest originality. He himself believed he was 'the founder of a new province of writing'. In breaking away from the epistolary method of his contemporary Richardson, and others, he devised what he described as 'comic epics in prose', which may be characterized as the first modern novels in English, leading straight to the works of Dickens and Thackeray" (Drabble, p. 360). Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion To English Literature, 6th edn, 2000. Large octavo (233 x 157 mm). Twentieth-century blue morocco, spine with raised bands lettered and decorated in gilt, covers bordered with a single gilt fillet, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed with several uncut gatherings. With 16 colour plates by Wheelwright including frontispiece. With original cloth cover panel and spine pasted to two rear binder's blanks. A couple of marks to leather, light browning to half-title and final leaf, otherwise internally bright and clean. An attractive, generously-margined copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$964.78 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 942 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator and issued in England, with a further 1,000 issued in the US. An attractive edition of the great 18th century novel, handsomely bound by the leading English bookbinders Bayntun-Riviere. An experimental writer who thoroughly ruffled the feathers of his contemporary literary establishment, Fielding is now "generally agreed to be an innovating master of the highest originality. He himself believed he was 'the founder of a new province of writing'. In breaking away from the epistolary method of his contemporary Richardson, and others, he devised what he described as 'comic epics in prose', which may be characterized as the first modern novels in English, leading straight to the works of Dickens and Thackeray" (Drabble, p. 360). Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion To English Literature, 6th edn, 2000. Large octavo (233 x 157 mm). Mid-20th century brown morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine lettered in gilt, gilt in compartments, gilt panel to covers, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With 16 colour plates by Wheelwright including frontispiece, with tissue guards. Spine lightly sunned, couple of scratches to morocco, closed tear to limitation page expertly repaired, scattered light foxing; an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom