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The Old Folk of the Centuries: Available Copies

Octavo, sienna brown cloth spine over paper covered boards in pink and gray, Limited edition, number 127 / 900 copies. Dust jacket is chipped at head of spine, half-inch missing, some closed tears. Offset browning on endpapers. Studio

First edition in decorative paper covered boards over brown cloth quarter boards, gilt stamped spine, uncut fore and bottom edges. Limited to 900 copies of which this is no. 207. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot (n.d. 1930), 66 pages. A nearly fine copy with foxing to edges and some pages and toned endpapers. Some darkening and rubbing to jacket.

#219 of 900 limited edition copies. Cloth spine with gilt spine titling, decorative papered boards; with age-soiling and heavy foxing. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket tanned, foxed, vertical crease to front inner flap; with light general edgewear including minor chipping to fore-edge corners, and larger chips from spine ends. DJ protected in Mylar. Pages foxed, free of markings. This copy has unopened/uncut pages.

London, 1930. First edition. One of 900 copies, this being #283. Near fine book: bookplate on the front pastedown and a little offsetting toe th endpapers. Jacket has some fading to front panel. Still present nicely.

VG / Good + Limited edition of 900 copies (unnumbered). Gilt titles to spine. Quarter-bound with attractive paper covered boards. Binding is firm and tight. Light age tanning to page edges. No inscriptions. Not ex-library. Unclipped patterned d/j shows slight wear with two tears.

Hardback with dust-wrapper. 66pp. No. 316 of a limited edition of only 900 copies. nd. [circa1930]. D/w is slightly marked, chipped with small losses. Previous owner's details to front pastedown. A decent copy. (r7)

Limited to 900 copies of which this is no. 279. Small, slim octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth-backed decorative boards in matching dust jacket; [4],66pp. Boards and top textblock edge a bit foxed, two small dents to bottom edges, jacket spine slightly toned, minor offsetting to endpapers, else a Near Very Good copy. BLEILER (1972), p. 105; JOSHI & SCHWEITZER I.A.55.a.

Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-2] 3-66 [67: blank] [68: printer's imprint], original cream marbled boards with brown cloth shelf back, spine panel stamped in gold. First edition. Limited to 900 numbered copies of which this is one of 800 unsigned copies. Anderson I.55.a. Touch of the usual age-darkening to free endpapers, a fine copy in very good dust jacket with some shelf wear at spine ends and upper corner tips. (#112953)

First UK Edition, First Print. Pp. 66. A true first edition, first printing (first impression) in original jacket with light creasing and wear. Internally clean. Limited to 900 copies of which, only number 1 - 100 are signed by the author. This is no. 27. Signed by Dunsany to the limitation page.

8vo, cloth over printed paper, #84 of 100 copies signed by the author. Mild offsetting from jacket flaps to front and back free endpaper. Small gilt bookshop label on front pastedown, scattering patches of toning else fine in fine, unclipped jacket. Signed by the author.

66 pages. Limited edition, copy #7/100. Signed by Lord Dunsany. spine cracked at pages 44 and 45. Previous owner's name inked on front free endpaper. Scuff inside front cover where a bookplate was possibly removed. Cover corners lightly bumped. Light rubbing to spine ends. 1" square scuff where sticker may have been removed from front cover, upper left. ; 5 1/4 x 7 3/4"; Signed by Author.

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Association copy. From a limited first edition of 900 copies, of which 850-900 were designated for presentation; this is #861, and is inscribed by Dunsany to his niece, Lady Pansy Lamb, after whom he named the main character. Lady Pansy was a novelist and translator on the periphery of the bright young things. Cloth spine with gilt spine titling, decorative papered boards. Scuffing, rubbing, light soil and edgewear. Binding sound. Pages lightly foxed, text else free of markings.