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London: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Fair with no dust jacket. 1920. Reprint. Hardcover. Missing DJ if issued, corners lightly bumped, two sticker ghosts to rear cover, paper edge toned with some foxing. Missing one colour plate with another torn with lower half missing. ; Decorated blue cloth boards with paste down to front. Undated but assumed c1920. Wesleyan School presentation plate to inside front cover stating presented to Hilda Brooks for attendance and conduct, dated 1923. Good reading copy. Frontis and plates by Arthur Rackham, dated 1903.; Colour Illustrations; 210 pages; A morally uplifting story of two boys who learn the Christian way. Originally published in 1870 as Buy the Truth and Sell It Not: A Tale for the Young. .

Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 206 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth with black lettering. Binding remains firm.Pages are moderately tanned. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.

London: London: Nelson, 1882, 1882. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. decorated blue cloth, outer leaves foxed, binding cocked, frontispiece illustration.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871. No Statement of Printing/Apparent First . Cloth. Good/No Dust Jacket. A Good copy (1871 owner's name) in blue cloth decorated in black and gold. Covers rubbed, light wear at the spine tips, neat glue mends to paper tears at the gutters.

London, Thomas Nelson, (1903).. FIRST EDITION FIRST ISSUE (1903). 8vo, 190 x 125 mm, 7½ x 5 mm, deluxe binding, wine red fine ribbed cloth, bevelled boards, ornate gilt decoration to spine: 4 double ruled gilt rectangles, the largest with 7 gilt flowers, lettered gilt on spine, gilt single ruled vertical rectangle next to spine on upper cover enclosing 10 gilt flowers, gilt title and author on upper cover in large blindstamped rectangle, tiny blindstamped ornament under title, all edges gilt, pages: 205 + 2, printed on pale pink paper. 8 very good colour plates, title page printed red and black. Neat faint owner stamp on front pastedown and half-title, margin edges slightly browned throughout. Otherwise near Fine very bright copy. This deluxe first issue is uncommon and is not described by Latimore and Haskell or Riall who list as the first a copy without bevelled boards, gilt decoration on covers or spine, or gilt edges. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST.… Read More

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1903. First thus. First Rackham-illustrated edition, first issue printed on pink paper. Collating 205, [1, blank], [2, adv.]. Publisher's original blue cloth, front cover and spine blind-stamped in a conventional all-over patternand lettered in gilt. A color variant not noted by Riall or Latimore and Haskell. Title-page printed in red and black on white paper as issued. Eight full page color plates by Arthur Rackham. A Near Fine copy with just the lightest amount of rubbing to extremities and a few leaves with light creases at upper corners. Lady Greene was a prolific Irish children's author whose works emphasized moral life lessons. The present work was originally published in 1870 with the subtitle Buy the Truth and Sell It Not: A Tale for the Young; and it tells the simple and uplifting story of two boys who learn the Christian way toward generosity and goodness. Illustrated for the first time by Arthur Rackham, the present version of the story is brought to life… Read More