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Price: US$588.82 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 291 pages. Gilt cover decorations, four full-page tinted illustrations (including the title-page) and seven black and white headpieces by Rex Whistler; also Whistler's design for the spine of the dustwrapper of the trade edition is reproduced on the last page. Full gilt-decorated vellum covers with yapp fore-edges. Top edge gilt. Printed by W. Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge, on hand-made paper. Seven stories.One of 60 copies signed by the author, this being designated "Out of Series". With the author's additional autograph presentation inscription on the front free endpaper: ''With all good wishes - Walter de la Mare - March 1934''.As usual the spine has some fading. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper or slipcase.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter. THE LORD FISH. Faber & Faber, 1933.
Price: US$707.57 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1933. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Contains: The Lord Fish, A Penny A Day, The Jacket, Dick and the Beanstalk, Hodmadod, The old Lion, Sambo and the Snow Mountains. Purple cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 4 full-page b/w illustrations. Limited edition of 68 Signed and Numbered copies printed on English hand-made paper. SIGNED by author to prelim page, this is Copy No. 59. Some light wear and fading to covers. There are some page edges which are ragged, with grubby marks and a few nicks/chips, where page edges were not fully cut. Marks to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with some marks and nicks and chips; grubby/marked to spine. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
De La Mare, Walter; Illustrated by Rex Whistler. The Lord Fish. Faber and Fabe, London, 1933.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited and Numbered Signed 1st Edition, 1933. Of an edition of 60 copies numbered, signed and printed on English hand-made paper, this copy SIGNED by Walter de la Mare in October 1934 and labelled "out of series". Specially bound in purple vellum with yapp edges, gilt vignette of Lord Fish after Whistler on upper cover and gilt lettering and decorations at spine, top edge gilt, Whistler illustrated end pages, four full page illustrations including the engraved title page. Near Fine, toning at end papers, front board somewhat darkened, small stains at paste down, hidden by flaps, from old jacket protector, no slipcase, in a Near Fine dust wrapper, a few tiny chips along top edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.