THE BOOK OF WONDER VOYAGES. by Jacobs, Joseph - 0

New York: University Microfilms/Legacy, 1967. Facsimile Reprint. 1st Printing. Cloth. About Fine/No Jacket (as issued). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Facsimile Reproduction, First Thus, First Printing w/"Special Contents". Hard cover 8vo in blue cloth w/ paste-on label. About Fine, No DJ, as issued. Blue mark vertical page edge (production error), else book Fine and unmarked. 224pp inc Notes; illustrated by John D. Batten.

Nabu Press, 2010-01-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

NY: GP Putnam's, no date. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition Review Copy. NEAR FINE in a lightly edge worn and darkened dust jacket. Illustrated by John Batten. 230 pages, cloth. No publisher's date on book but review slip laid in states 1967. Famous voyages from Nordic, Greek & Arabian mythology with original black & white drawings by Batten..

Hardback. New.

New York:The Macmillan Company, 1896. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. New York:The Macmillan Company. 1896. xii+224pp. Illustrated by JohnD. Batten. Hardcover.  Decorated boards lightly soiled and shelfworn with wear along edges and both ends of spine strip chipped and frayed. Internally, end-pages age-toned but free of previous owners marks or signatures.  Light foxing/age-toning to first and last few pages, with an occasional smudge scattered throughout. The binding is tight but both  hinges have started, and the last free end-page has been removed. *Greek, Irish, Arab and Nordic tales of magical travels.

New York: Macmillan, 1896. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Near Fine. Batten, J.D.. 1st ptg. 8vo, full decorated cloth, numerous illustrations in black and white throughout by J.D. Batten. Greek, Irish, Arab and Nordic tales of magical travels. Corners bumped, slightly cocked, a bit of rippling to spine cloth and a bit of gap between center signatures, still a near fine copy.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1896. First American edition. Small quarto, rose cloth, with elaborate pictorial stamping in the art nouveau style, pp. xii, 224. With 25 illustrations by Batten, including a photogravure frontispiece. With a section of notes by Jacobs on the historical basis of these legends and tales. Some pages roughly opened with resultant chips and small tears in the margins of some pages, some dustly thumb-marks to pages, covers are lightly soiled, with fraying and baring at the corner tips, and small frays at the spine ends. A nice copy of a beautifully designed 1890s book..

London, England: David Nutt in the Strand, 1898. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. J.D. Batten. Octavo, 9 in. x 7 in. pp. xii, 224, 12. Publishers wheat cloth flecked with red, and full size decoration to front board, and smaller design to back, as well, in red. Some shelf wear to bottom of spine. Photogravure frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated titlepage, 6 additional plates, many in text illustrations throughout, all black and white. A handful of pages towards the rear - and one in the middle -- unopened (hint: use dull edge index card or ruler NOT a knife) Excellent example of early Art Nouveau aesthetic. Loose endpapers heavily foxed, all else very clean. The Australian folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) edited this collection of tales for children from Greek, Celtic, Arabian, and Norse traditions: The Argonauts, The Voyage of Maelduin, Hasan of Bassorah, and The Journeyings of Thorkill and Eric, respectively. Although culturally distinct, the tales belong to the ancient tradition… Read More