Will Jenkins Illus (2 results)
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
£ 19.25
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Add to basketCondition: VG. San Francisco and New York 1907 first edition. Paul Elder. Thin 12mo. 20p. Poetry. Mounted frontispiece illustration. VG but most of pink decoration on cover has worn away. Hinges not cracked. no owner marks. in Good dj, dj has faded to plain tan and almost all lettering on dj is gone..…
A Son of the Gods and A Horseman in the Sky
BIERCE, Ambrose; W.C. Morrow (introduction); Will Jenkins (illus.)
Published by Paul Elder and Company, San Francisco and California, 1907
- First Edition
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. One of 1000 copies. Octavo (17cm); vegetable vellum spine over blue beveled boards, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; fore- and lower edges deckled; dustjacket; blue endpapers; [xii],[2],3-47,[5]pp; tissue-guarded frontispiece. No. 4 of the Western Classics series. Modest shelf-soil and wear, with light foxing to spine, and ribbon bookmark lightly tattered; Very Good. Dustwrapper, spine-faded, with light shelf-wear, chips to spine ends, and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. First separate printing of "A Son of the Gods" and "A Horeseman in the Sky", reprinted from Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891). STARRETT 21. GAER p.20. BAL 1126. [90303]. BAL says 'vegetable vellum' and Starrett says 'parchment backbone' to describe the spine."Deckle" edges from Starrett, but I can change it to 'untrimmed'. Pricing: Babylon Revisited Rare Books ghas a Near Fine, in 'Very Good' (cm chip, smaller chips), in slipcase for $225 PBA Galleries has one unsold on RareBookHub, estimated price $100-150. Slightly over 100 on OCLC. A few on WorthPoint for $60 and less, sold in 2017 etc.…