Mere Walter (31 results)

Cloth. Condition: Fair. Smaller book, possibly published in 1916, dark green cloth with gilt border for title and author at top of badly rubbed front, bookplate inside front cover, tiny bookstore label at bottom of first front end paper, small newspaper clipping of poem "Bunches of Grapes" glued on reverse of final end paper, in…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, Walter de la Mere, and many others. 8 beautiful, full color tipped in plates with black and white illustrations throughout. Very good with some darkening to spine and edges of boards. Page block dusty. Half title illustration has been…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1924. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine with a slightly darkened spine, dark blue decorated buckram cloth boards, decorated endpapers, owners signature on half title page; Includes works by Chesterton, De La Mare, Milne, Belloc, Walpol…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Thus. Classic Fairy tale of John Cobbler and a beautiful Fish Girl. Full-Page and In-Text Colour illustrations by Patrick Benson. First U.S. Edition. 124 p. pages, 7 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions. Jacket has slight wear at spine ends. Unclipped. Patrick Benson (i…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Slim 8vo, pp63 with 7 lithographs (1 Double page) by Ian Archie Beck. Hardcover no dust jacket in glassine wrapper. Binding of blue cloth spine with gilt titles over patterned paper covered boards with titles to front board in near fine condition. Inside all pages, with top edge gilt, in near fin…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926; first edition, bearing same date to title and copyright pages, with no additional printings indicated; viii, 342pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to black cloth boards; ends of spine bumped; green titling remai…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 16mo. Soft cover. Red, pictorial wrappers. Stitched binding. 1st edition. Number of The Ariel Poems. Thin, unpaginated pamphlet. Color wood engraving. Fine. This copy inscribed by de la Mere in his tiny writing at top of front cover. With original tan, printed mailing envelope. Blair Hug…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing of new edition (1941) with illustrations by Rowland Emett. On wartime stock, but all in VG clean and bright internal order. Former owner's neat signature to fep. Cream cloth with crisp green titling, lightly bumped. VG unclipped d/j a…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. vi + 84 pp, previous owner's inked name, ate, on ffep. Signed and inscribed by de la Mare on ffep. First American Edition. First British edition @1921 Constable, London. 5.9" x 8.9" black cloth boards, gilt fr cover design and spine letters. rough cut fore-edge.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Olive green cloth, ornate gilt illustration on front with quotation from Isaac Watts, spine dulled, on inside bottom of back cover "Brentano's Bookshop, New York City" patch, name erased inside front cover, tissue-covered frontispiece of girl named Tillie floating in air, light wear to tips, 178 ligh…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Oxford - Basil Blackwell, 1924. Hardcover. Condition: Near FIne ist Edition Containing stories from G. K. Chesterton, Hugh Walpole, A. A. Milne, and many more. Illustrated throughout with many tipped-in colour plates, and pictures in the text. blue decorted buckram cloth binding dome fading to co…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. David Appleton and Company, NY. Hard Cover. 1st American edition; Condition: Fine. Marian Allen, Hugh Chesterman, Alec Buckles, et. al. (illustrator). First American Edition. ochre printed decorated buckram cloth boards, corners very slightly bumped but clean, decoraative endpapers, owner…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 1934 hardback, limited edition of 350 number and signed copies, of which this is number 236, signed by the author. Printed on rough cut paper, top edges gilt edged. Embelished/illustrated by Alec Buckels.Once cream cloth spine with inlaid title panel over grey board covers. Inter…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition, Limited Edition. Limited Edition 236/250 signed and numbered by De La Mere This book is really tightly bound with no pages missing and no noteworthy internal faults. Externally it remains solid, however the cover is tired, but complete, there is a slight tilt to the book and a pink mark o…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. This first American edition of Peacock Pie was signed and numbered by Walter De La Mere - copy number18 of only 500. It is 'embellished' by Claude Lovat Fraser, to magnificent effect. The buckram binding is in cream and the original protective cover is in place, which is unusual.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 60 haunting Poems. Includes: The Three Cherry Trees; The Scarecrow; When the Rose if Faded; Sleep; The Ghost. Crimson cloth cover with bright Gilt lettering and Linear Margin on front. Gilt Lettering on spine. 92 p. pages, 5 1/2" Tall. Slight fading to spine. Slight edge wear. Name penciled on ffep a…