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Published by Macmillan, London, 1910
Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Lacking all 40 colored plates. First edition. This book measures approximately 10" x 7.5" with 280 numbered pages. No illustrations present. This book is in poor condition. Moderate chipping and tearing to both ends of spine. Gilt lettering and design on spine and front board still bright and well preserved. Moderate staining to both boards. Cloth split at rear gutter, with amateur tape repair attempt at the top of the rear gutter. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Both hinges cracked. Light foxing throughout textblock. Many pages are loose from the illustrations being removed. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(N3-66).
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Warwick Goble (illustrator). This is the original 1910 printing, NOT a modern reprint. Over-sized hardbound (quarto). Bound in blue cloth with spine title and cover decoration gold-stamped. The cover decoration is a Japanese woman in kimono with a child on her back. Light wear ro the binding. There is a three inch tear to the bottom of the rear outer hinge. This has been repaired with book conservator's glue. There is also a horizontal break arcoss the width of the rear cover. The text/illustration pages are tight and clean with no marks. The book is distinguished by 40 color tipped-in illustrations. The first 39 illustrations are in fine condition. Plate 40 is damaged with image loss to the top of the illustration. Front and rear blank end sheets and blank pastedowns are foxed. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No sun fading. No dust jacket. Photos available upon request. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by Macmillan, London, 1910. First edition., 1910
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Colour tipped-in illustrations by Warwick Goble. Very Good (-), without dust jacket. Period gift inscription on title page. Some slight wear to cover and spine commensurate with age.
Hardcover. White vellum boards with gilt lettering and illustration; color mounted frontispiece with guard sheet, XII, 280 untrimmed pages, 40 color mounted illustrations. Printed in edition of 500 copies. Includes a list of the 40 color llustrations by Warwick Goble. As-Is (excellent candidate for rebinding as the boards are soiled, worn and torn, front ffep has a small tear to bottom corner, binding is secure, pages are clean and clear, all plates are present and clean).
Published by Macmillan and Co., London, 1910
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Half Morocco. Condition: Good. Goble, Warwick (illustrator). First Editiion. 4to. All 40 tipped in plates present. First plate's brown paper, onto which plate tipped in, with two small pieces of tape along edge on non-plate side. Plates otherwise, and plates proper, clean, but some moderate foxing throughout on text pages. Leather on spine sunned. Gilded lettering there is bright. Five raised bands. Green cloth front board has stain mark that looks like half the imprint of a glass. Evidence of not very well done repair to top two inches along front and rear gutters. Overall a good copy, in a nice leather binding.
Hardbound. Original blue sand grained cloth pictorially stamped on front cover and lettered in gilt on spine. [4], viii, 280, [1], [1, blank], [2, publisher's advertisements] pp. 40 mounted color plates on thick brown cardstock. A solid and tight copy of this first edition regular issue. The mounted color plates are superb examples of Goble's efforts. A very presentable copy of a rare title. Good+, inner fron hinge cracked entire length but solid. Rear inner hinge just starting but also solid. Very slight tear in front upper gutter about 1/4 inch long, cover tips just starting to show wear, all edges blued with ink. FFEP has foxing spots.
Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited 1910, London, 1910
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Goble, Warwick (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. pp. viii, 281, (2) pub. ads. Original publisher's blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to front board & spine. All edges blue. Slight marking to boards with wear to corners and spine. Splitting to hinges but binding firm. Endpapers slightly darkened. Internally clean, minor foxing throughout. With forty tissue-guarded tipped-in colour plates by Warwick Goble. Plates complete, slight creasing to four. No ownership names. 4to. Illustrated.
Published by Macmillan & Co., London, 1910
Seller: AJ Scruffles, Leigh On Sea, ESSEX, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Warwick Goble (illustrator). Charming selection of Japanese folk tales, retold by Grace James. Includes 38 stories featuring Green Willow, The Singing Bird of Heaven. The Flute, The Tea kettle amongst others. With 40 marvellous colour illustrations by Warwick Goble, each tissue guarded and tipped in on brown card. 4to. Unobtrusive repairs to hinges and joints. Some rubbing and bumping to edges. Mild occasional foxing within. Contents otherwise clean and tight. Very good.
Published by Macmillan, London, 1910
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
hardcover. Illus. by Warwick Goble (illustrator). 1st edition. 4to, 281 pp., Spine somewhat dull but readable, rear hinge cracked but tight; all edges stained blue, With 40 tipped-in color plates Very good copy in the original gilt-decorated cloth.
Published by Macmillan & Co., 1910
Seller: Allsop Antiquarian Booksellers PBFA, Warwick, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illus. with 40 cold. plates, incl. frontis. Sm. 4to. dec. cl. Bds. and spine rubbed, hinges a little weak, inscr., occasional foxing, else contents v.g. (Heavy item, will require extra shipping costs).
Published by Macmillan and Co., Limited, London, 1910
Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, U.S.A.
gilt-stamped cloth. Condition: Very good. Warwick Gobel (illustrator). Quarto (7" x 10"), navy gilt-stamped pictorial cloth. All edges dyed blue.280, (1)pp plus publisher's ad leaf. Forty stunning illustrations by Warwick Gobel tipped onto heavy brown stock illustrate the 38 tales. The plates are unpaginated. Slight wear at the extremities. Small dampstain on the back cover, lower left which can be seen as faint in the pictures. Endpapers toned. "These tales and legends have been collected from many sources. Some of them have been selected from the Ko-ji-ki, or Record of Ancient Matters, which contains the mythology of Japan. Many are told from memory, being relics of childish days, originally heard from the lips of a school fellow or a nurse. Certain of them, again, form favorite subjects for representation upon the Japanese stage." A lovely copy of this beautiful book.
Published by Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, 1910
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Warwick Goble (illustrator). 1st Edition. A very good copy of the 1st trade edition in the original decorative cloth binding with tipped in colour frontispiece and 39 further colour plates by Warwick Goble. The binding is bright and clean. There is light scuffing to corners and spine joints, and there is pulling to the top and bottom of the spine. Page edges blue. There is the bookplate of Christopher Turnor to the front pastedown with the motto 'Turn nor Swerve'. Turnor (1873-1940) lived at Stoke Rochford Hall in Lincolnshire and was an architect, author and social reformer. The contents are complete and in very good clean condition. The plates are mounted on a thick brown card which has been tipped in to the book. Occasionally there is slight loss of the card surface onto the tissue guard in the gutter, and similarly slight loss of the text page surface in the gutter onto the card presumably where the book was opened more widely after sale. There is pale foxing to some text pages, which is more noticeable at the margins. Endpapers have some browning. 2 pp publisher's list at the rear. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.
Published by Macmillan and Co, London, 1910
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Goble, Warwick (illustrator). First Edition. A very crisp copy of this desirable book in collector's condition. Bound in blue cloth with bright, gilt ttiles to spine and gold blocked figure of Japanese lady with baby to front board, this 1910 First Edition is VG. Size is 26cm x 18cm. V111/281pp+2pp Macmillan's Adverts. With 40 tipped in colour plates by Warwick Goble, each with titled tissue guard. Plates are mounted om brown art paper. Edges are olivine. Several of text pages have very slight edge foxing:in most case very light foxing affecting first inch of bank margin. Several other pages have more extensive foxing, but again mainly on blank margin areas and of an insignificant and very light character. Three tiny closed tears to bottom of spine (4mm) and corner have minimal wear. Triangular bookplate to fixed front endpaper and light foxing and very light scattered foxing to both sets of endpapers. Triangular bookplate has printed an image of itself on free front endpaper. All the faults are small and to be expected with a book of this age: generally a VG copy!.
Published by MACMILLAN AND CO, LIMITED, 1910
Seller: Bingo Books 2, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION,DAMPSTAIN FIRST FEW BLANK PAGES,FRONT HINGE IS STARTING TO SEPARATE,COULD USE REPAIR,CONTENTS VERY NICE,ESPECIALLY THE ART OF WARWICK GOBLE.
Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to. pp 280. 38 stories. Edition de Luxe (which was limited to 500 copies.) Original publisher's full vellum with gilt titles and gilt image of Japanese woman and child to front cover. Lettered gilt at the spine, with top edge gilt. Some moderate mottling to front and back, along slight marking and fading; Lacking ties. Gilt to upper face of page block, other faces rough cut. Binding remains firm. Slight foxingto endpapers . Overall slightly used near vg copy with 40 highly attractive tipped in plates by Warwick Goble. All tissue guards present.
Published by Macmillan, London, 1910
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Fine. First trade edition. Original publisher's cloth stamped in gilt. All edges stained blue. Measuring 245 x 180mm and with forty beautiful color illustrations. A Fine copy with some minor offsetting to pastedowns. Internally fresh. Though the folklorist Grace James was best known for her John and Mary books -- a children's series following an English boy and girl in their youthful adventures -- the present work shifted its focus East to participate in the period's popular japonisme trend. Beautifully illustrated by Warwick Goble, who was noted for his appreciation of Japanese, Indian, and Middle Eastern art, Green Willow continues to capture the imagination and introduce new generations to fairy tales such as The Flute, The Moon Maiden, and Tamamo the Fox Maiden. Fine.
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1910
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Goble, Warwick (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1910. Very good condition with no wrapper. De-Luxe edition, Limited to 500 copies. 40 exquisite tissue-guarded colour plates, mounted on brown card. 38 tales and legends collected from many sources. Vellum bound, with gilt titles and vignettes. Foxing and spotting to covers, endpapers and outer page edges; a few to some page margins. Ties to covers are no longer present. A few scuff marks to covers. All plates are present and in fine condition! Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!.
Published by Macmillan & Company, London, 1910
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Small 4to. 40 tipped in color plates by Warwick Goble. Bound in full blue polished calf by Bayntun of Bath. Double gilt rule around perimeter of covers. Spine decorated in gilt. Re-backed, with old spine laid down. Red leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Edges and inner dentelles gilt. Marbled endpapers. a.e.g. Spine uniformly faded to a lighter blue. An extremely nice copy. Near Fine.
Published by Macmillan and Co. Limited, London, 1910
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Book
Half-Leather. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Warwick Goble (illustrator). Special Edition. A near fine copy of the 'edition de luxe' of which only 500 copies were issued. The original vellum binding has been replaced with a half calf binding with cream spine with title label and matching cream cloth. It is in fine condition. Contents with tipped in colour frontispiece, rubricated title and 39 further tipped in colour plates by Warwick Goble. New matching tissue guards. The contents are complete and very clean. Top page edges are gilted; the remainder untrimmed. There is some light spotting at the untrimmed foredge; a light crease to the plate facing p 37 and a creased tissue guard to the plate at p 276. There is occasional spotting to tissue guards. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images to further assess condition.
Condition: Very good. Deluxe large paper edition, limited to 500 copies, featuring Japanese folk tales gathered by a Tokyo-born British woman. Grace James was the daughter of a British Naval officer born in Tokyo while her father was stationed there. She grew up in Japan until age 12; in the introductory note, James explains that many of the tales in this book are "relics of childish days, originally heard from the lips of a school-fellow or a nurse." James also drew on traditional sources like the Kojiki ("Record of Ancient Matters"), a central work for ancient Japanese mythology. This work is a remarkable example of the influence of japonisme in early 20th-century English book production. Golden Age artist Goble was Macmillan's favored illustrator for their gift books, many of which were deluxe reprints of classic fairy tales similar to this one. Quarto. 11'' x 8.5''. Original full gilt-stamped vellum, original yellow silk ties. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Illustrated by Goble with 40 magnificent tipped-in color plates mounted on heavy stock, including printed tissue guards. xii, 281, [1] pages. Some soil and rubbing to vellum, with tiny repaired tear to head of spine; hinges expertly repaired. Internally clean and fine.