Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1926
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Reprint. Cloth. 133 pp. Illustrated with eight color plates by Rackham, including the frontispiece. Sporadic foxing throughout affecting some plates. Soiling to covers, bumps to corners and spine ends. Illustrated endpapers in line. Former owner inscription to front free endpaper. Offsetting from old paper to front endpapers. ; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Condition: Good. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Hardcover; Doubleday Page & Co.; 1926; No DJ, green cloth, gilt lettering, spine lettering faded and barely readable, edge and corner wear and bumping, 6 light stain spots on back cover.
Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1918
Seller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers, Fort Wayne, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover; Later Printing. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (illustrator). Green cloth binding with gilt lettering bumped & rubbed at extremities; small dent to backstrip; binding cracked at page 103; bookplate on front paste-down; owner's name on front endpaper; a few leaves nicked at fore-edges; leaf edges, endpapers lightly foxed, else a nice, clean copy, with bright ils. No dj. ; Delightful b&w ils. & six color plates by Arthur Rackham; preface by Edmund Gosse. ; 4to; 132 pages.
Published by Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1918
Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 1st American Edition. First printing of the American edition, using the British sheets. Bound in green cloth, lettered in gilt. Complete with 8 color plates by Arthur Rackham, each with the original tisssue guard. Traces of shelf wear at corners and spine edges, else clean and tight with bright gilt. Former owner's gift inscription on half-title page else unmarked. An attractive hardcover book in very good condition. Classic Arthur Rackham title with his ethreal drawings of children with nymphs, angels, etc.
Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1918
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Good+. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st edition thus, 1918. A Good+ copy. 4to., 132 pp., 8 full page illustrated plates with tissue guards, bound in publishers green cloth with titles in gilt on front cover and spine. Overall minor wear and soiling to cloth with some rubbing at tips, edges and top/base of spine. Previous owners name inside front cover. End pages foxed, paper is age toned. Text appears unmarked. Previous owner signature of Isadore Leighton Luce, Smith College April 1922. Isadore Smith (1902-1985) who published as Ann Leighton, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., graduated from Smith College in 1923, and married Archibald William Smith (1897-1962), a veteran of the First World War. Their home on Argilla Road in Ipswich overlooked Fox Creek. Col. Smith was the author of two books, A captain departed, (New Haven, Yale University Press, (published 1935) and A gardener's book of plant names; a handbook of the meaning and origins of plant names. (New York, Harper & Row, (published 1963).
Published by William Heinemann, London
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later. Later edition. Circa 1930. Very good. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, spine tail split one inch at front side, circular stain on front board, lacking the dustwrapper.
Published by William Heinemann, London, 1918
Seller: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Gilt Decorated Cloth. Condition: VG+. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham (illustrator). 1st Edition. Minor bubbling to the cover cloth, owners name on ffep, otherwise a very nice copy!
Published by William Heinemann, London, 1918
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). First Edition. 133pp, frontispiece and seven color illustrations with titled tissue guards, black and white illustrations throughout. Very Good in original green cloth tooled in gilt, light wear at spine ends, small corner bumps, end pages moderately toned, scattered small spots of toning throughout, bookplate verso front end page. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Published by Ldn: Heinemann, dated 1918, 1918
Seller: Bookstand, Poole, United Kingdom
£ 85
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Add to basket8 coloured plates beneath captioned protective guards, together with numerous charming b&w illustrations. Moss green cloth gilt with delightful pictorial images on upper cover and on end-papers. Small 4to.133pp. Slight wrinkling to upper & lower cover otherwise VG.
Published by William Heinemann, 1918
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 60
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st impression. Green cloth, gilt titles and illustrations, illustrated endpapers, top edge stained dark. 8 colour plates with captioned tissue guards, b/w illustrations throughout, by Arthur Rackham. Preface by Edmund Gosse. Condition: Very good. Some bubbling to cloth on front and back, spine gilt dulled. A little edgewear. Light foxing to rear endpapers. No inscriptions. Clean and bright internally. Binding firm. Size: 10x7.5in / 25x19cm. 133pp. Weight: 570g.
Published by London William Heinemann 1918, 1918
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
First Edition
£ 182.58
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Add to basketCondition: very good. 1st Trade Edition. ix,132pp. Large octavo with green cloth boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on front and spine, and endpapers with green pattern. Colour illustrated frontispiece and seven coloured plates. Very small bookseller's stamp on front pastedown. Board corners and edges, and spine edges have mild wear. Back endpaper has some foxing. very good Sixteen poems from Noble Prize nominee and English writer, Algernon Charles Swinburne. The poems have been collected from Swinburne's various works and all have overarching themes of children or childhood life. With a preface by Edmund Gosse and eight lovely full page illustrations from Arthur Rackham.
Published by Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1926
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Early reprint. Quarto. Eight color plates by Rackham. Long, neat gift inscription on the front fly, some foxing to the foredge and first and last few leaves, still fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks and tears. A beautiful copy.
Published by London: William Heinemann., 1918
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 250
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Add to basketFirst edition, first printing with these illustrations. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and illustration to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding clean and square with a bump at the top of the spine. The contents are entirely complete and without inscriptions or stamps. All 8 full-page colour plates with tissue guards and 52 black and white illustrations throughout the text are present as called for and in fine condition. Complete with the original dustwrapper which is a little rubbed and nicked with a few short closed tears and associated creasing at the spine tips. An attractive example. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by William Heinemann, London, 1918
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Limited Edition. Quarto, 132pp., illustrated by Arthur Rackham. A very good copy in the publisher's cream boards with white vellum spine, decorated in gilt. Top edge gilt., patterned endpapers. Contemporary armorial bookplate to the front paste-down. Some isolated foxing to the spine, and discoloration to the endpapers. Else clean and sharp internally. Faint bump to the bottom front corner of the rear board. This is number 285 of 765 limited copies SIGNED by Rackham on the limitation page.
£ 175
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Add to basket1st edition. 10" x 7.5". ix + 132pp, illustrated + 8 cold plates. Inscription to previous owner from friend on paste down fep. Foxing on eps, else, very good hardback in torn, rubbed and scuffed, now protected, dustwrapper.
Seller: Librairie Chat, Beijing, China
Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1 book.