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Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Wind Blows Over by Walter de la Mare (First Edition) Signed Minor bumping and rubbing to corners and spine ends. Previous owner's inscription on front free end page. Minor wear to edges and spine ends. 1 inch tear to upper mildly tanned spine. Price-clipped, in a clear protective cover. Gray cloth with gold lettering and design on spine. 326 pages. Signed by author on front free end page.
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
De la Mare, Walter. The Wind Blows Over. London; Faber;, 1936.
Price: US$257.27 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. 11 short stories. Number 40 from a signed limited edition of 75 copies. Near fine - slightly grubby in yellow boards with spine titles and decorations in gilt. Gilt top edge and untrimmed foredge and bottom edges. No dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Walter de la Mare. The Wind Blows Over. Faber and Faber, London, 1936.
Price: US$289.43 + shipping
Description: A scarce signed, limited edition copy of this collection of short stories by Walter de la Mare. Limited edition of seventy five copies, of which this is number fifty eight. Signed by de la Mare to the colophon. Printed on English hand-made paper. Published the same year as the first edition. Walter de la Mare was a British author and poet, perhaps best known for his children's work, such as his poem 'The Listeners'. Mare was also a notable writer of ghost stories and wrote a number of supernatural stories. Several of these ghost stories are found in this collection of short stories, such as 'A Revenant' and 'Phsyic'. Many of the works found in this work were first published serially in magazines such as 'The Talisman', 'The Lady's Realm' and British newspaper 'The Times'. In the original yellow cloth binding. Externally very smart with just a few light handling marks to the boards. Slight sunning to the spine.Slight bumping to the tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Several pages remain uncut including the contents page. Signed by the author to the colophon. Pages bright and clean with just the odd spot. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom