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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. Lovely copy, #469 of a 900 print run. Green Apple Books and Music, Publisher Weekly's Bookstore of the Year 2014, has been San Francisco's favorite independent bookseller since 1967! Shipping costs on oversize / international orders will reflect actual shipping charges and may be more than quoted by ABE. We will need to contact you with true shipping costs and ask for authorization before adjusting cost.

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.

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)

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.

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.

Octavo, 66 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good condition dust jacket. Tan spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, has mild shelving wear, mild wear along the extremities, chipping along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges, open tears along the spine head and tail edges, stains on the front and rear covers, and moderate age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the extremities, a dent on the rear tail edge, mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, and bending wear along the spine tail edge. Textblock has splitting to the gutter from the title page to page 4 and page 24-45, staining on the end-pages and pastedowns, mild wear along the edges, and moderate age-toning throughout. Signed flat by Lord Dunsany on publisher's limitation page, limited edition #45/900. DL consignment. Shelved Room C. Only numbers 1-100 of the 900 limited editions of "The Old Folk of the Centuries" were signed by the author. 1388634. Special Collections. First UK Edition, First Printing, Limited Edition #45/900.

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