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LLewelyn Powys. The Twelve months. The Bodley Head, Oxford, 1936.
Price: US$340.44 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: # 6 of 100 Limited edition on English Handmade paper signed by both the Authour and the illustrator . Top edge gilt. Sunfaded spine and top of book to cover lightly faded else fine. Gilt blind stamped spine and cover.
Seller: Arete Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$420.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The deluxe issue of the first edition, limited to 100 numbered copies printed on handmade paper and signed by the author and artist (this being #42). Tall 8vo. 88pp. Green leather, gilt lettered at the spine and with gilt-stamped initials to the upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Leather discoloured at the backstrip, as is invariably the case, and with some further discolouration to several margins of the upper and lower boards. Free endpapers and pastedowns lightly spotted. A very good copy, in excellent crisp state internally. No dust wrapper called-for, but lacking the slipcase. Twelve essays, one for each month of the year, all reproduced from the pages of the 'Daily Herald' and beautifully enhanced with a frontispiece engraving, twelve delightful Gibbings chapter header engravings and twelve further tail pieces. Foss A15.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Llewelyn Powys. The Twelve Months. The Bodley Head, London, 1936.
Price: US$787.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Number 36 of 100 signed copies in fine binding. Signed on the limitations page by the author, Llewelyn Powys, and illustrator, Robert Gibbings. In original off-white slipcase. Fine green leather over boards with gilded seal on front and lettering on the spine. Spine slightly faded and some scuffing on the rear board, otherwise fine. Top edge smooth and gilded, other edges rough cut. The interior is clean and clear. Pages:(14) 89 Dimensions:10â x 6¾ x â .
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.