EASTWAYS W.E.MareMagnum
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19498vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece, text browning at edges, neat inscription on dedication; decorative cloth blocked in silver, backstrip lettered in silver, one corner lightly bruised else a very good, tight copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly age-soiled and with minor loss at lower edge of front panel. The bibliography of this school tale is confused. The author is given variously as W.E. Eastways (dustwrapper and title) and W.W. Eastways (series catalogue on dustwrapper rear panel). BLPC gives the latter and records two editions, neither of which matches the present copy. Here the pagination matches the first edition of 1949, though the imprint is Children's Press (not Collins). A scarce survival in this condition.
19538vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece; original cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a very good, clean copy in unclipped but worjk and partially defective dustwrapper. With a coloured prize bookplate on front free endpaper. Sequel to 'Madge's Sister'.
19538vo., First Edition, with a frontispiece map; maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly sunned at backstrip.
19108vo., First Edition thus, with 16 plates; handsomely bound in full burgundy morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, uncut, pictorial gilt from original upper board and backstrip preserved and mounted on new and separate leaves, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. With 2pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The first English edition of Andersen's 'Eventyr' was published by Pickering as 'Danish Fairy Tales and Legends' in 1846. The fourteen tales contained therein were translated by Mrs. Howitt. In 1852 the scarce second edition appeared, containing forty-five tales and at the time the sole complete collection in English. The translations were made from the original Danish and not from any of the later German versions. Enhanced by Heath Robinson's inimitable illustrations, this edition comprises a verbatim reprint of the fourteen tales of the 1846 edition and the remaining thirty-one tales of the second edition of 1852. AN ELEGANT COPY OF A VERY SCARCE EDITION.
19913 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces; cloth (grey/blue/grey respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. DUNCTON STONE IS A PRESENTATION COPY WITH THE AUTHOR'S HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON TITLE. Bright set of the second Duncton trilogy.
19458vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in the dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at edges. This work, together with 'Life in a Devon Village', includes substantially rewritten elements of the author's earlier 'The Village Book' and 'The Labouring Life'. Gretton 31; Matthews A31.
19828vo., First UK Edition; terracotta cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Published a year after the US edition. With dustwrapper artwork by David Pether (the US dustwrapper was illustrated by Jeff Fisher). Collects 21 short stories; the collection was later reissued as 'The Drones Omnibus' in 1991. The stories were first published as follows: eight in Young Men in Spats (1936); one in Lord Emsworth and Others (1937), four in Eggs Beans & Crumpets (1940), two in Nothing Serious (1950), four in A Few Quick Ones (1959) and two in Plum Pie (1966). This edition is already elusive, especially in this condition.
19124to., First Edition thus, with 32 fine coloured plates (all original tissue guards present), some light and obtrusive spotting as often; original decorative cloth gilt, boards elaborately blocked and patterned in gilt, back gilt extra, backstrip mildly faded (but all gilt wholly legible), a very good, clean copy. Lal Behari Day's collection of folklore was first published in 1883. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
19568vo., First Edition; red cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.
20122 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with very numerous illustrations, initials, and head- and tail-pieces by Gill in the text; full niger morocco, sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt edges, silk marker, Commentary Volume bound in boards with buckram back, the two fine volumes housed in publisher's cloth solander case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1980 COPIES. A magnificent facsimile of the Golden Cockerel masterpeice, widely regarded as the finest private press production of the period.
19348vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in red full morocco, back gilt with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled and ruled in gilt, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Collects the whole of Lawrence's shorter fiction from 'The Prussian Officer' (1914) to 'The Man who Died' (1931). The stories are printed in chronological sequence. A lovely copy. Roberts, A67.
19678vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and illustrations in the text, green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper. Collects Beyond the Marble Mountain (1948) and Back to the Marble Mountain (1949).
19913 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with portrait frontispiece and numerous plates; blue cloth, gilt backs, blue tops, navy endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case blocked and lettered in gilt.
19652 works in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; with illustrations in the text; blue cloth, gilt back, a fine copy. High quality facsimile reissues of two seventeenth century works.
19988vo. First Edition thus, with illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; faux-vellum blocked in gilt, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. First appearance in FS as a single volume. Wright's translation was first published by OUP in 1985, and subsequently by FS in three volumes (with parallel Middle English texts) in the following year. ALREADY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
19074to., First Edition, with illustrated title and very numerous illustrations in the text, free endpapers mildly browned; original pictorial boards printed in red and black, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, fresh, clean copy. Cahill 24 , variant A (with Bedford St address and picture in black).
19108vo., Third Impression thus; original series binding of green ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, gilt back, dark top, decorative endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. First published in EL in 1908. EL 307; Seymour 185.0.
18968vo., First Edition, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present), 20 plates and numerous wood-engraved head- and tail-pieces by A. S. Hartwick, preliminaries very lightly spotted, frontispiece guard moderately spotted and offset to title, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial blue cloth gilt, fife and drummer boys from plate facing p.58 elaborately blocked in gilt on upper board, pictorial back gilt, all edges gilt, a very bright, crisp, clean copy. Collects seven stories first published between 1888 and 1890. Livingston, 133; Martindale 67; Stewart 157.
19304to., Second Impression, with illustrated title and very numerous illustrations in the text, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original pictorial boards printed in red, brown and black, cloth back lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean copy. The second of Belloc's collaborations with Nicholas Bentley, whose wonderful illustrations are the prefect complement to the master's humorous verse. Published a month after the first edition. Cahill, 115B (recording the first impression).
19838vo., First Edition, with illustrations in the text, neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
20192 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, 14 coloured illustrations (2 double-page) and monochrome tail-pieces; pictorial cloth (blue/green respectively) blocked in yellow and black, backs lettered in gilt and yellow, printed endpapers, silk ribbon markers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
19562 vols., 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispieces, woodcut illustrations (a number full-page) in the text and illustrated endpapers; oatmeal holland, brown cloth backs lettered in gilt, green tops, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed at heads and tails of backstrips.
19498vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; red cloth, gilt back, red top, a very good, bright, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter with minor loss at tail of backstrip.
20113 vols., 8vo., with coloured frontispiece and 28 monochrome illustrations in each volume; pictorial green cloth, upper boards and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and black, green endpapers, a fine set in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
19058vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 15 plates, endpapers mildly spotted; original red cloth, upper board blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt back, gilt top, backstrip faintly chafed at head else a remarkably bright, crisp copy. With contemporary prize bookplate and trade ticket of Combridges of Hove on front paste-down. The first English edition of Andersen's 'Eventyr' was published by Pickering as 'Danish Fairy Tales and Legends' in 1846. The fourteen tales contained therein were translated by Mrs. Howitt. In 1852 the scarce second edition appeared, containing forty-five tales and at the time the sole complete collection in English. The translations were made from the original Danish and not from any of the later German versions. Enhanced by Heath Robinson's inimitable illustrations, this edition comprises a verbatim reprint of the fourteen tales of the 1846 edition and the remaining thirty-one tales of the second edition of 1852. AN ELEGANT COPY OF A VERY SCARCE EDITION.
