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Official first edition, first printing (not counting unrecognized S. African editions), Allen & Unwin, UK, 1947. Attractive and apparently unread, with red cloth binding and pages bright and nearly as-new. Top edge dyed red.
A thing with this edition, as it were, is pronounced stripes of foxing on the free endpapers, where they are in contact with the pastedown endpapers and don't touch the jacket flaps. This copy has them, with no other foxing evident.
Jacket, of orange uncoated paper with red and black lettering, is on the line between G and VG with flaws acceptable for the higher category (one major spine chip, a few lesser nicks, moderate toning of spine), but when in doubt, especially with a fairly expensive book, the wise round down. Looks very attractive in a Mylar sleeve, vulnerable to harm otherwise. Comes by Gestalt in a protective Mylar sleeve.
 

First US trade edition (as opposed to the stated limited edition) of the color plate version of The Clarke-illustrated Tales of Mystery and Imagination. A reprint of this edition was published through the 1930s. Text block is top-stained, in black of course. Large, weighty, imposingly black volume with gilt text and art on the spine and a paste-down on the front cover. Top-stained in black with the other edges deckled. Features 32 full page plates, 8 in full color and tipped-in. Tight, solid, square binding with some wear at top spine and some fading on the still-bright spine gilt. The front paste down is clean and as issued. Inside, the book is sharp and nice with a former owner's name (Priscilla Sanders) in genuinely spooky old cursive. Priscilla put penciled check marks in the Table of Contents showing that she liked, or at least read, almost all the poems in the book. These are instantly erasable, but left intact because I feel it's none of my business. All plates are present and as-issued with… Read More

This is, in fact, the first trade edition of The Bells And Other Poems, with 28 color plates by Edmund Dulac, bound from leftover stock by the publisher Hodder and Stoughton, and released under this title during and after the First World War (see below). The endpapers, with bells on them, are also from the 1912 edition. The title page reads, surely enough, The Bells And Other Poems. In point of fact, Hodder and Stoughton were still finding uses for this old stock as late as 1929, when a selection of pages and plates from the book were issued as a Christmas portfolio by the publishing trade magazine, The Bookman. While the date of this edition has been hard to pin down – copies are nearly randomly assigned dates from 1919 to 1925 -- its wartime nature is now established by Adelaide Field, who advances our knowledge by having inscribed the date of November 4, 1918 under her name on the ffep of this copy. That's exactly a week before Armistice Day. So there.

This is a heavy, weighty quarto with an… Read More

An essential text in the study either of Populism, or populism (small-'p' version) in American political life, listed here in cheap, but nicely vintage paperback form.
Copy is unmarked and unread, and has no significant wear, but shows its age with a general off-white tone, darker on the spine, and that sitting-on-the-shelf look that paperbacks get. Nicely presentable, but not glowing or sparkly.
Almost not worth selling, either, because one of these days, one will probably have to buy another copy.