Search Results: broomsticks and other tales by de la mare

Constable, 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1925. 378 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean. Light tanning to spine and edges.

New York: Knopf, 1925. Fantasy/fairy tales bound in soiled brown buckram, sans DW; black & white designs by Bold; small book store label on rear paste down; 334pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. VG Only/No Jacket. Illus. by Bold.

London; Constable; nd (1st ed?). Good+. First Edition. Hardcover. Possible 1st edition; h/b no d/w; G++; rust cloth boards with gold gilt decoration & lettering; a little wear to cloth at ends of spine; front hinge just starting to crack; designs by Bold; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Cover.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Hardcover - 1942 edition. Designs by Bold. Tanned, foxed and worn jacket; several nicks and creases to the edges; larger tears to the front leading edge and chipped portions to the spine ends. Slight ill-fitting of the (unclipped) front inner flap. Fading and wear to the hardcover, plus some minor bumps to the edges. Minor foxing on the page block (rough cut on the face), pastedowns, endpapers and to a far lesser extent on some pages. Illustration pasted on to the FEP. The binding remains sound; all text and designs are clear. CM. Hardcover. Good. Illus. by Bold. Used.

London : Faber and Faber Limited, 1931. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Boards slightly stained. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 195, [1] pages color frontispiece, illustrations, color plates, 24 cm. Contents; Miss Duveen. -- The bird of travel. -- The tree. -- The map. -- Missing. -- The wharf. -- Maria-Fly. Subjects; Illustrated books British Isles 1931.

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. 1st USA edition.. Hardback. Good. Illustrated by Bold, . Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Brown cloth, gilt titles and orange decoration. B/w woodcut illustrations. 334 pages. Covers a little grubby and spine darkened. Spine and corners bumped and slightly worn. Inscription in ink and small booksellers sticker to front free-endpaper. Page browning to endpapers. Some light fingermarks to page margins.

London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. Octavo. Wood Engravings By Bold. The cover gilt gleams and there are no internal marks. In Ashley's Who's Who in Horror Fiction (65-6) and The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (502 - 'Deserves a place in any horror collection.').

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, , 1925. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VG- tan cloth, 334pp. top edge stained orange, decoration on the front board, decorative lettering on the spine. Illustrated. by Bold. in a fair dj with tape repair, chips and tears, damaged spine. in a protective acetate, .

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1931.. First edition. 8vo. 195, (1) pp. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettered to the spine and with a matching vignette to the upper board. Frontispiece and 7 plates in colour plus a handful of black and white illustrations in the text. A little spotting to the front endpapers, very good.

BROOMSTICKS AND OTHER TALES, Knopf, 1925, first American edition, vg+/near fine in a vg+ dust-wrapper save for small chip missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine.

London: Constable & Company, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+. Octavo. SIGNED BY WALTER DE LA MARE ON COLOPHON without personalization. ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED BY DE LA MARE ON FFEP WITH 4 LINE POEM DATED CHRISTMAS 1925. LIMITED EDITION OF 278 COPIES. THIS IS No. 60. Beige cloth spine over blue boards, leather label on spine. A Very Good+ copy; internally fine; small chip to label on spine, not affecting title. Top cover corners bumped.

London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1925. First edition . Hardcover. BOLD. Collects twelve stories with black and white illustrations throughout. "The illustrations, in the white-on-black British woodcut school, are excellent." Bleiler; Guide to Supernatural Fiction, 502.Bound in original brown cloth with lettering and illustration stamped in gilt. Near fine in very good dust jacket with light edge wear, moderate soiling on the rear panel and moderate fade to the spine panel.

London:Constable and Company, Ltd., 1925. Limited edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. Signed by authors. London:Constable and Company Ltd. 1925. 378pp. Illustrated with designs by Bold. Limited edition, #184 of 278 copies, numbered and signed.  Hardcover.  Boards lightly soiled and shelf-worn with leather label on spine chipped and scratched. Top edges gilt. Internally, end-pages age toned but otherwise a very good, clean and bright copy. 

London: Constable & Company Ltd, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Constable & Company Ltd., 1925. Octavo, viii, 378 pages with 38 charming woodcuts by Bold. Quarter cloth and papered boards with a leather titling-label on the spine; top edge gilt, others uncut; spine very lightly sunned; paper on the corner-tips slightly worn; early ownership details; an excellent copy. Number 183 of only 278 copies signed by the author. Provenance: 'R.N. Finlayson | from W.J. Isbister | 7.12 35' is written in ink on the front free endaper. Ronald Nickels (Jack) Finlayson (1882-1945), was a South Australian lawyer and law lecturer, a member of the Boards of Governors of the State Library and of the Art Gallery, and a serious collector of books. William James Isbister (1866-1950) was also a South Australian lawyer and law lecturer, and a member of the University of Adelaide Council, 1905-1949. A later ownership signature, dated 1955, is pencilled in under the inscription.

Published by Constable and Company Ltd., 1925. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Bold, . Very good condition with no wrapper. Cream/beige cloth spine with title label and gilt titles. Grey boards. Limited edition to 278 Numbered and Signed copies. B/w woodcuts. SIGNED by author to verso of half-title page. This is Copy No. 51.Spine is browned and worn. Title block is a bit faded and worn. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges.

London: Constable & Company Ltd., 1925. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. With Designs By Bold. From the Library of Sir John Mills and Mary Mills. Number 241 of a Limited Edition of only 278 copies numbered and signed by Walter De La Mare. Size 9" x 5¾" 378 pages. Grey covers with cream cloth spine section, with gilt titles on a brown leather panel on the spine. Top page edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. With lovely woodcut illustrations, vignettes and decorated initial capitals by Bold. Condition very good, cover and spine grubby, tiny piece of title label missing, corners rubbed, internal contents clean.

London : Constable & Co., 1925. Limited Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original cloth-backed, paper-covered boards. Gilt-blocked leather label to spine. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. SIGNED by the author. ""This edition is limited to two hundred numbered and signed copies. No. 4"" --verso half-title. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 378 pages; Physical desc.: 378 p. : illus. ; 21 cm. Subjects: Children's fiction - Juvenile literature. Contents: Pigtails, ltd -- The Dutch cheese -- Miss Jemina -- The thief -- Broomsticks -- Lucy -- A nose -- The three sleeping boys of Warwickshire -- The lovely Myfanwy -- Alice's godmother -- Maria-Fly -- Visitors.

BROOMSTICKS AND OTHER TALES, Constable, 1925, first edition, fine in a bright vg pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. Illustrated by Bold.

London, Faber & Faber, 1931 1st Ltd Numbered Edition 65/170.. Hardback, 9 x 6.5 inches. Full vellum binding with gilt lettering to spine and design to front. Top edges gilt. In very good condition. Some minor darkening to spine, a couple of minor handling marks to cover, some light foxing to endpapers, signed page (by author and artist) and inside pages all clean and bright. Colour plates clean and bright. 195pp. With 8 colour plates and 2 b&W vignette illustrations by John Nash.