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London: Wells Gardner. Hardcover. Very Good-/No Jacket. Browne, Gordon. 354 pp. A very good- copy, tan illustrated cloth. No dust jacket. Some soil and edgewear of cloth. Light cracking of outer hinges. Slight fading and discoloration of pages and text blocks, but text and illustrations are bright and unmarked. Offsetting and discoloration of endpapers. Ads in rear.

HardPress Publishing, 2012-01-10. Paperback. Good.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-22. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-10-22. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., 1910. Good condition hardcover, with gilt embossed, colourfully printed gilt edged boards and page block head. Covers are marked and discoloured, particularly the spine, and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Page block, pastedowns and endpapers are blemished and lightly foxed, as are a few of the pages. Gutter breaks evident at pages 128-129 and 272-273. Pages and text are otherwise clear and bright throughout. LW. Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by Browne, Gordon. Used.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

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London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Gordon Browne. London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., (1910). Presumed First Edition, Signed by Masefield on the half-title page. 8vo. xii,354p plus 10p publisher's catalogue. Text block untrimmed. Pictorial tan cloth stamped in green, black, and white, letters in gilt. Bright, slight wear, rear cover lightly soiled, very good plus.Over 50 illustrations in b&w, including endpapers, frontispiece, title page (title and author's and illustrator's name in red), within text, initials, head-and-tailpieces. Lacks pictorial slipcase.; Over 50 illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 354 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Wells, Gardner Darton & Co., (1910). An octavo, 354 pp., plus 10pp. of publisher's ads. Bound in very pale yellow cloth with pictorial covers and spine printed in green and brown. Illustrated by Godon Browne, this is a perfect copy of a delightful book..retaining the pictorial slipcase which repeats the cover illustration on both front and back panels. The slipcase exhibits some wear, particularly at the extremities and along the spine..but is complete and quite rare in any condition. Laid-in is a folded sheet advertising Darton's Fine Art Series of books, as well as other titles with three color illustrations. An exceptional copy of this classic British book.

London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., [1910]. 8vo. xii, 353, [1] pp., plus 8 pp. illustrated publisher’s catalogue. Illustrated title in red & black, woodcut-engraved frontisp., text illustrations & plates, and historiated initials throughout. Pictorial beige publisher’s cloth, elaborately decorated & illustrated Arts & Crafts cover art of pirates on front, w/ nautical motif decorative borders, and spine, illustrated endpapers (slight darkening to spine), w/ original illustrated open-backed slipcase (w/o spine), still F/G- copy, w/ colour-illustrated 4-pp. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. publisher’s catalogue featuring Pycraft & Noble’s Animal Why Book on front. First edition of this curious anthology of nautical stories surrounding the boating adventures of Mac & Robin in their imagination, grappling with pirates, and even ghosts, in Water Orton near the River Tame in Warwickshire. Gordon Browne (1858-1932) followed in his father Hablot Knight Browne’s footsteps (Phiz), and began… Read More