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Price: US$429.99 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: London and New York: William Heinemann Ltd, 1925. First trade edition, copyright 1922, actual printing date of this edition 1925. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Externally worn, internally good to very good. Blue cloth printed in gilt, four color plates by Rackham, no dustjacket. Covers heavily rubbed at the extremities, corners bumped and frayed, spine gilt clear and legible, rear hinge internally reglued and secure, front hinge has a partial internal split between the endpapers, text block sound, pages slightly age-toned but clean, name written at top of copyright page, no other markings. Signed by the Author. First Trade Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Number 100 of 175 copies of the Edition de Luxe, signed by Rackham. 4 color plates and numerous line drawings by Arthur Rackham. Folio. Inscribed by Morley. Inscribed on the endpapers "With homage to Barbara Boston from the dog cherubs-and from Mr. Gissing and Christopher Morley" dated April 2, 1934 with an additional inscription presenting the book to "Lyon from Barbara." Mr. Gissing being of course the character in the book. Original black cloth-backed boards. Spine defective, some staining of boards, endpapers stained and browned but the interior sound and clean 4 color plates and numerous line drawings by Arthur Rackham. Folio Number 100 of 175 copies of the Edition de Luxe, signed by Rackham.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: Limited American edition, #74 of 100 hand-numbered copies, signed by both Rackham and Morley. Illustrated with color frontispiece, 3 color plates, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. The scarce matching slipcase is present. 4to. xii, 227pp. Latimore & Haskell, pgs. 60-61. Very good in publisher's black cloth over blue-green marbled paper-covered boards, mounted paper label; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; illustrated endpapers, offsetting to front ones, in fair scarce publisher's paper-covered slip case with matching limitation number which is worn with loss to top and tears to bottom.
Seller: Nelson Rare Books, ABAA, Haddonfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: A Man's Best Friend [RACKHAM, Arthur, illustrator]. MORLEY, Christopher. Where the Blue Begins. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday Page & Co., [1925]. Edition de Luxe, limited to 175 numbered and signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy No. 30. Quarto (11 x 7 3/4 in; 281 x 200 mm.). x, [2,], 227, [1, blank] pp. With four color-plates including frontispiece, and sixteen line drawings. Quarter black buckram over cream paper boards. Spine tooled in gilt. Top edge gilt. Partially unopened. Bookplate on front pastedown. A near fine copy. Where the Blue Begins is a satire about a dog named Gissing (after the author George Gissing) who lives alone (except for his Japanese butler Fuji the Pug), in a little house in the country, in a woodland suburb region called the Canine Estates. In this book all of the characters are dogs. Poodles, Spaniels, Chows, Beagles, Sealyham's, Mastiffs, Dachshunds, Whippets, Borzois', Airedales, Dobermann-Pinschers, Pointers and Scotties. The story appeared two years after Morley's collection of humorous essays Pipefuls. "No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does." What breed of dog was Gissing? Read the story and find out. Latimore and Haskell, p. 60. Riall, p.154.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.