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The Old Folk of the Centuries: Available Copies
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The Old Folk of the Centuries: A Play by Lord Dunsany
Seller: Green Apple Books and Music (san francisco, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
Book Price: $45.00
Shipping: $10.00
TOTAL Cost: $55.00
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.
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Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA (Temecula, CA, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $65.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $72.00
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.
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The Old Folk of the Centuries A Play by Dunsany, Lord
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Publisher: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, London (1930)
Seller: Chequamegon Books (Washburn, WI, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $350.00
Shipping: $6.50
TOTAL Cost: $356.50
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 This is #7 of 900 copies.
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THE OLD FOLK OF THE CENTURIES [Signed] by Dunsany, Lord [Title] [John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Edward]
Hardcover
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Publisher: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, London, UK (1930)
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (Rockville, MD, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: unspecified
Book Price: $350.00
Shipping: $7.00
TOTAL Cost: $357.00
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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