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A Story-Teller's Pack: Available Copies

Decorative cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing, tanning on the spine, erosion at the crown of the spine. Pages tanned with minor foxing.

Charles Scribner's Sons Former library book. Solid binding. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Decorative cloth cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and fading. Name of former owner on the ffep, ffep detached. Pages tanned with minor tidemarks.

First edition. Very good minus/hardcover. Hinge cracked. Name on endpaper. Spine brown. Edges of spine bumped. Nice gold gilt design on cover.

1897. No Edition Remarks. 380 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Illustrated by Peter Newell et al. Bookseller's stamp to title page, half title page and rear endpapers. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier in places. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened. Water staining to some pages. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Gilt lettering is darkened. Book has a slight forward lean.

Illustrated by Peter Newell, W. T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E. W. Kemble. Bound in original decorated green cloth over boards with white and gilded designs, illustrations, and lettering on the front and spine. Spine sunned, the two lower corners bumped, slight lean, generally solid. Gilded top edge and untrimmed long and lower edges. Front-free-endpaper missing, all other pages present and accounted for including all illustrations. The interior is clean and clear; the illustration pages are bright. Margaret Armstrong design, Bal 18926. Pages:(10) 380 (2) + 16 illustrations Dimensions:7¾ x 5(3/8) x 1(3/16).

viii p., 1 leaf, 380 p. 16 pl. (incl. front.). Publisher's decorated cloth bright, minor wear to head and foot of spine; top-edge gilt, fore- and bottom-edges untrimmed; previous owner's signature at half-title else contents fine. 620 grams.

A collection of supernatural tales including "The Magic Egg" and "The Bishop's Ghost and the Printer's Baby" illustrated with 16 full page plates incl. tissue guarded frontis. Decorated green cloth covers with art nouveau style blind stamping on upper and lower covers, gilt lettering on spine. Decorated endpapers. Small library blindstamp to verso of ffep. Slight wear to extremities, page edges slightly dusty, otherwise a VG tight copy. 8vo. 380pp.

A very good and tight copy. First Edition. Listed in Bleiler, 2107, Science Fiction The Early Years. Ownership signatures on second front free end paper. A much nicer copy than usual. No bumped corners to book. No cracked hinges. No loose pages. Top edge gold gilt. Just a touch of fading to spine.

8vo., 380 pp., Very Good, Decorated Green Cloth With Gilt Edges of Text Block(top portion), sun-staining, rubbing, & edge wear on covers; front board dinged near head of spine (see image); some staining on end papers; pencil scribbles on end papers; the number 164 ink-scribbled on spine; some splitting in gutters of front end papers; shelf wear. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W. T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E. W. Kemble. Provenance: John Ruyle. Binding design by Margeret Armstrong. Mylar Jacket. First Edition.

viii, 380 pp. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W. T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E. W. Kemble. Frontispiece and 15 plates. 12mo, later full crushed morocco, t.e.g., by Sickles. Original decorated cloth spine and front panel bound in at rear. First edition, probably second state. BAL 18926. Short cracks to front joint; joints and edges rubbed; spine sunned. Autograph letter signed by Frank Stockton, discussing his writing, Jan. 22 '86, tipped in.