From Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 16 April 1999
Numerous colour vignettes throughout. Publisher's paper-covered boards with turquoise cloth spine, covers illustrated on the front and back. Boards slightly soiled, small section of rubbing at top of fore-edge and corner tips. Turquoise endpapers and, page edges. No old names or inscriptions. A VG+ copy. Seller Inventory # 18235
Title: ALMANACK FOR 1888
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons, London
Publication Date: 1887
Binding: Hardcover
Book Type: Book
Seller: Centerbridge Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards. 32mo. 24pp. Illustrated in color. A curious copy with an ink inscription on the half-title page which appears to be in Greenaway's hand. We can't make out the wording save for the first word "Dulce" but it is dated January 23rd. She has not signed her name. A good copy with some soiling to the covers and a small piece of the glazed paper overlay missing from the lower corner of the rear cover. The text is good with some soiling and wear. Seller Inventory # 10959
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Illustrated in color by Kate Greenaway. 16mo, publisher's cloth-backed boards illustrated in color. First edition. A little dust-soiled (more so at the rear board); otherwise a fine copy. Seller Inventory # 76893
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. First Edition. First edition second state with blue cloth-backed illustrated glazed boards, green endpapers, 4 x 3 inches. Light wear to extremities and ink spots rear top edge, neat period gift inscription half title page, a very good+ tight and clean copy. Seller Inventory # 13288
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Tiré à Part, Marseille, France
In-16 carré ( 100 X 75 mm ), cartonnage en couleurs illustré sur les deux plats, dos de toile bleue. Charmantes illustrations en couleurs dans et hors-texte de Kate GREENAWAY. Première édition. Bel exemplaire. Enfantina Cartonnage Almanach. Seller Inventory # 931317
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: ANTIQUARIAT H. EPPLER, Karlsruhe, Germany
1. Auflage. 10,2x7,7cm Miniaturbuch Erste Auflage, unpag. 24 pages. Orig.pappband, die ersten 2 und die letzten 3 Blatt etwas fleckig, gut brauchbar. coloured illustrations. Seller Inventory # 52646
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Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Sexagesimo-Quarto. Blue cloth spine over illustrated glazed boards, blue end papers. Very good, slight darkening to boards, light wear to edges. Seller Inventory # 40513
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Greenaway, Kate (illustrator). 1888. Very good condition with no wrapper. Small small, slim format. Cream pictorial boards with blue cloth spine. Blue endpapers. Colour illustrations. A few tiny foxspots to covers and some creases to rear cover. Foxing to contents (light). A nice copy of a scarce year. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!. Seller Inventory # 1323491
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Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition. Pictorially illustrated in colour by Kate Greenaway on every page and including five full-page coloured plates as well as other coloured illustrations throughout the text. 12mo, publisher's original pictorial boards backed in green cloth. 24 pp. A fine and unusually well preserved copy with extremely minor age mellowing. FIRST EDITION. A CHARMING AND DELIGHTFUL CALENDAR ALMANACK PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BY KATE GREENAWAY. This gem of a book includes scenes of childhood and floral designs. Poems by Herrick, Ben Johnson, Simon Wastell, and Edmund Spenser. Seller Inventory # 33224
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Hard Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Greenaway, Kate. (illustrator). First Edition. Original glazed pictorial boards. 24 pp. 3" by 4". Both covers have a picture of the back view of two women, stairs, and rose bushes, printed in colors, and the title, author's name, and a triple-line border, printed in brown. Page edges and endpapers are blue, but the spine is pink. Tiny corner chip on the front pastedown, small, faint spot on the first four leaves, else Near Fine. Nice copy. Corresponds exactly to Schuster 6a. Corresponds to Thomson 52a in all respects except for the pink spine. Part of a bookseller's private Greenaway collection purchased by us from her estate. Seller Inventory # 019762
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Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Heavy Card Stock. Condition: Very Good. Greenaway, Kate. (illustrator). First Edition. We have been unable to find any record of this binding: Heavy tan card stock (with scalloped edges) with cover and pages held together with a white ribbon. Centered at the top is a girl at an open window with a bird approaching her outstretched hand. A branch is along the left side of the window. The illustration is not a pastedown and seems to be handcolored. The branch is gold and the leaves green. The window behind the girl is black and to her right grey. The bird is an exquisite miniature in gold, blue, and red. The window frame is brown, and there is rose shading along the bottom and right hand side of the window frame. 24 pp. not counting the covers. 3" by 4". Back cover is blank. All pages but the half title on page 1 have color illustrations.Poetry by Spenser, Wastell, and Jonson. 11 illustrations signed "KG." Tiny chips on outer corners of front cover, Very Good. This version of the Almanack for 1888 not in Schuster or Thomson. We have not been able to find mention of this item in the auctions. Possibly a unique item? Part of a bookseller's private Greenaway collection purchased by us from her estate. Seller Inventory # 019795
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