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Published by Haymarket, 1928
ISBN 10: 1122710488ISBN 13: 9781122710480
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good. ***Includes all tipped in plates, and pages are still uncut *** Used, may have wear along spine from rubbing and sunning. Perimeter of book also shows sunning. and markings but is still in solid reading condition. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore.
Published by The Haymarket Press, 1929
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. William Russell Flint (illustrator). Limited Edition. First thus. Limited edition. Quarto. 25×19cm; xvi,(48)pp. Paper boards with gilt title to spine; gilt title and border to upper board. Light general wear with some discolouration to edges and spine. Binding square and tight. Clean within. Bookseller?s label on rear paste-down endpaper. Four mounted colour plates. Unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 875.
Published by NP, London, 1929
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: g. Russell Flint (illustrator). Limited ed. Lg. 8vo. xvi, 48 pp. Tan boards with gilt decoration. Some browning to edges. Head and tail of spine bumped. Some light staining to back. Top edge edge. Hinges starting to crack but holding. Illustrated with four color plated by Russell Flint. One of 875 copies. In good condition.
Published by Haymarket Press, London, 1928
Seller: Bud Plant & Hutchison Books, Cedar Ridge, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Flint, W. Russell (illustrator). 1st ed. Small 4to, full cream cloth stamped in gilt, text from the Apocrypha, 4 mounted color plates by W. Russell Flint, #157 of 875 copies, a fine bright copy with unopened pages and bound-in ribbon boookmark in fine dj and near fine decorated slipcase. Publisher's prospectus slip laid in describing the three proposed editions: Ordinary, 875 copies, 21s; Edition-De-Luxe, 100 copies with extra set of Colour Plates, 63s; and Vellum Edition, 12 copies (10 for sale) signed by the Artist, 15 guineas.
Published by Haymarket Press, London, 1929
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Fine. London: Haymarket Press, 1929. First Thus, Limited to 100 copies of which this is no. 66. Quarto; publisher's full limp parchment, front cover and spine lettered in gilt, yapp edges, white cloth ties, top edge gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; xvi,47pp.; tipped in color frontispiece, three leaves of tipped in plates, text printed within green line border. A Fine example of this luxe special edition accompanied by an extra suite of the four plates in original envelope. Though remembered today by American readers for his classic ghost stories, M.R. James also gained renown for his scholarship of biblical apocrypha, culminating in the compilation The Apocryphal New Testament (1924), published while serving for nearly two decades as Provost of Eton College.
Published by London: The Haymarket Press, 1929, 1929
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Flint edition, deluxe issue, number 73 of 100 copies issued with the additional suite of four colour plates, retained here in the original folder. There were also 875 copies of the trade issue and 12 copies printed on vellum and signed by the artist. This copy is complete with the scarce original slipcase, also numbered 73. William Russell Flint contributed to a number of early 20th-century editions of the Apocrypha, and has been described by Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy, as an artist of "a steady hand, keen eye and gay spirit in a shaky world" (ODNB). This edition includes an introduction by M. R. James, who had an extensive and eminent career as a biblical scholar, with a particular specialism in apocrypha. His Apocryphal New Testament (1924), a scholarly collection of all the known apocryphal gospels, acts, epistles, and apocalypses, was the standard edition for most of the 20th century. Ransom, p. 314. Quarto. Original japon, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, yapp edges, original cream cotton ties, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With four additional plates in the original envelope, as issued. Housed in original japon-covered slipcase, numbered in ink on the top panel. Colour frontispiece and 3 mounted colour plates, text printed within green frames. Faint toning to spine and covers, minor foxing to endpapers; light toning and wear to slipcase: a near-fine copy in very good slipcase.