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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First edition. 456 pages. 6 X 9 inches high. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Bookplate of Victor Lange on front paste-down, text is clean, binding is tight. Condition of dust jacket is VERY GOOD; Lightly soiled & yellowed, a few small tears at edges. Text in German.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. The Merry Maker (Young Folks Library Volume 8, 1953 Hardcover without Dust Jacket) 32 short stories & verses from 17 named authors. Volume 8 of the Young Folks Library. Four color plates with many black and white pictures in text. Stories which stretch readers credibility. vi + 316pp. + 3 plates bound in. Short Story titles include: - Funny Leaves for the Younger Branches by Baron Krakemsides of Burstenoudelafen, - New England Weather by Mark Twain, - The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear, - The Dorchester Giant by Oliver Wendell Holmes, - The Reverend Mr. Trotty by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, - The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll, - The Yarn of the Nancy Bell by William S. Gilbert, - John Gilpin's Ride by William Cowper, plus 24 other stories & verses are found in The Merry Maker. Cover indicates this volume part of a series titled "Young Folks Library." Hardcover with tan cloth boards, orange and yellow decorations on front & spine, but no dust jacket. This copy was always privately owned, appears never handled, and exterior is new. In addition, interior is tight, clean, complete, and unmarked. Above average interior - likely seldom read. Copyrights 1952, 1932. Likely different stories had different copyright years. Printed in U.S.A. Title page is dated 1953, likely the year this copy was printed. From other sellers descriptions, it is indicated the stories found in this title vary by print year. No ISBN, LCCN, nor MSR. Thanks for looking. Alfred Crowquill only named illustrator; 17 other artists likely (illustratore). No Ownership Markings.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. "London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First edition. [Colophon from Number one]: Five hundred and thirty numbered copies of this story have been set by hand in Imprint Shadow [type], and printed by Robert MacLehose & Co. Ltd., at the University Press, Glasgow, of which Nos. 1-500 only are for sale and Nos. 501-530 for presentation. This is copy No. 142 [signed] “GK Chesterton"". Details of the type faces, and hand-numbering, vary in the colophons. 18 separate volumes; each measuring approximately: 5 7/8 in. x 8 in. Each bound in decorative paper-covered boards, with design (signed: J.G.P. '28), repeated on front & back covers, and on the dust jacket front & back panels; similar, decorated end-papers; boards & dust-jackets are in various pastel shades of colored papers. A few dust jacket spines show age-related tanning, chipping to top-edge of jackets (see list, below). Each volume is signed by its author. Scan shows the spine & front cover of D. H. Lawrence's ""Rawdon's Roof"", and a few sample spines of other volumes. Sold as an 18-volume set only. List of titles: Published in 1928: 1. The Sword of Wood. G. K. Chesterton, 25 pp.; 2. The Dewpond. T. F. Powys, 29 pp.; 3. A Wedding Morn. Sheila Kaye-Smith, 50 pp.; 4. Portrait of the Misses Harlowe. Martin Armstrong, 26 pp. (small split to back panel, lower edge of dust jacket); 5. The Apple Disdained. R. H. Mottram, 30 pp.; 6. The Man Who Missed the Bus, 31 pp. (chip to upper end of dust jacket); 7. Rawdon s Roof. D. H. Lawrence, 32 pp. 8. The Old Dovecote. David Garnett, 27 pp. Published in 1929: 9. The Male Impersonator. E. F. Benson, 28 pp. (has 2 in. strip of paper torn off along back panel, upper edge of dust jacket); 10. Alice and The Lost Novel. Sherwood Anderson, 27 pp.; 11. Full Circle. Algernon Blackwood, 22 pp.; 12. The Linhay on the Downs. Henry Williamson, 26 pp.; 13. Fame. May Sinclair, 40 pp.; 14. The Goldfish under the Ice. Christopher Morley, 26 pp.; 15. A Ghost in the Isle of Wight. Shane Leslie, 30 pp.; 16. The Shout. Robert Graves, 31 pp.; 17. Trial by Armes. Joseph Hergesheimer, 30 pp.; 18. Some World far from Ours. Sylvia Townsend Warner, 31 pp. Published in 1928-29. 18 volumes, each signed. Near Fine.  ". Signed by Author(s).…