Walter Mere (30 results)

paperback. Condition: Fair.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. VERY GOOD CONDITION, A small check mark near a very few poems ; Gold spine titles on dark blue cloth hard covers. Large EL in script bottom spine.INDEX OF AUTHORS.ALL ON NICE WHITE MATTE PAPER. ; 351pg pages. Illustrated by Decorated Endpapers "EL"(orange) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Fair DJ/Very Good book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Inscription on front end paper dated 1956 Slight lean to spine.

Cloth. Condition: Fair. Smaller book, possibly published in 1916, dark green cloth with gilt border for title and author at top of badly rubbed front, bookplate inside front cover, tiny bookstore label at bottom of first front end paper, small newspaper clipping of poem "Bunches of Grapes" glued on reverse of final end paper, inside covers and adjacent end papers browned, 87 heavier browned pages with light foxing to early pages, slight surface wear to tips and spine edges, micronick at spine top right edge. Fair. 0.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. H/B pages, not numbered. Condition is Very good, book protected in a plastic cover. An owners name and date to the flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, Walter de la Mere, and many others. 8 beautiful, full color tipped in plates with black and white illustrations throughout. Very good with some darkening to spine and edges of boards. Page block dusty. Half title illustration has been darkened with pencil, else clean internally. …

First Edition. 8vo, pp. 110. Little faded cloth, in a chipped dj. 30 woodcuts.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Thus. Classic Fairy tale of John Cobbler and a beautiful Fish Girl. Full-Page and In-Text Colour illustrations by Patrick Benson. First U.S. Edition. 124 p. pages, 7 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions. Jacket has slight wear at spine ends. Unclipped. Patrick Benson (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1924. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine with a slightly darkened spine, dark blue decorated buckram cloth boards, decorated endpapers, owners signature on half title page; Includes works by Chesterton, De La Mare, Milne, Belloc, Walpole, Housman, Nightingale, Sitwell, others. one color plate missing, some others are loose but present otherwise fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Classic Fairy tale of John Cobbler and a beautiful Fish Girl. Full-Page and In-Text Colour illustrations by Patrick Benson. 124 p. pages, 7 1/2" Tall. No inscriptions. Jacket has very slight wear at spine ends. Unclipped. Patrick Benson (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926; first edition, bearing same date to title and copyright pages, with no additional printings indicated; viii, 342pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to black cloth boards; ends of spine bumped; green titling remains clear and legible. Narrow triangle sort of loss to head of spine, about 1.5" at its deepest; a few smaller chips; some rubbing, a few small abrasions; spine age-toned. Foxing to text block fore-edge and a bit to dust jacket spine. Red top-stamp remains bright and bold. Interior is free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Condition: Very Good. Bon état. Sans date. Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 16mo. Soft cover. Red, pictorial wrappers. Stitched binding. 1st edition. Number of The Ariel Poems. Thin, unpaginated pamphlet. Color wood engraving. Fine. This copy inscribed by de la Mere in his tiny writing at top of front cover. With original tan, printed mailing envelope. Blair Hughes-Stanton (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First printing of new edition (1941) with illustrations by Rowland Emett. On wartime stock, but all in VG clean and bright internal order. Former owner's neat signature to fep. Cream cloth with crisp green titling, lightly bumped. VG unclipped d/j a little toned and lightly marked to rear, now in removable protective sleeve. 8vo. 128pp. F R (Rowland) Emett (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Cover. Very good 1925 hardcover, no dust jacket. Anthology of children's stories from authors including Walter De La Mare, G.K. Chesteron, A.A. Milne, and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First American Edition. vi + 84 pp, previous owner's inked name, ate, on ffep. Signed and inscribed by de la Mare on ffep. First American Edition. First British edition @1921 Constable, London. 5.9" x 8.9" black cloth boards, gilt fr cover design and spine letters. rough cut fore-edge. Light wear to extremities. esp top & bottom spine cloth tips, Lower board forecorner bumped tip. in glassine wrapper. Size: Slim Octavo. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Olive green cloth, ornate gilt illustration on front with quotation from Isaac Watts, spine dulled, on inside bottom of back cover "Brentano's Bookshop, New York City" patch, name erased inside front cover, tissue-covered frontispiece of girl named Tillie floating in air, light wear to tips, 178 lightly browned pages, and final illustration, illustrations throughout. Very Good copy. Robinson, W. Heath (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Oxford - Basil Blackwell, 1924. Hardcover. Condition: Near FIne ist Edition Containing stories from G. K. Chesterton, Hugh Walpole, A. A. Milne, and many more. Illustrated throughout with many tipped-in colour plates, and pictures in the text. blue decorted buckram cloth binding dome fading to color and darkening of spne Internally, generally firmly bound, although front hinge is strained. Pages are bright, and clean, with just the odd mark. Iowners signature to half title page Overall: near fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. David Appleton and Company, NY. Hard Cover. 1st American edition; Condition: Fine. Marian Allen, Hugh Chesterman, Alec Buckles, et. al. (illustrator). First American Edition. ochre printed decorated buckram cloth boards, corners very slightly bumped but clean, decoraative endpapers, owner's signature on front flyeaf otherwise clean and unmarked A nice title rarely found by this US publisher. Printed and bound in GB by Billing and Sons. Undated, circa 1923. 120 pages with many B&W illustrations & 8 color tipped-in plates. Contents are fine.…

First edition in very good near fine condition. Grey paper covered boards. Spine slightly worn. 41pp. (Book ref 2684).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. 1934 hardback, limited edition of 350 number and signed copies, of which this is number 236, signed by the author. Printed on rough cut paper, top edges gilt edged. Embelished/illustrated by Alec Buckels.Once cream cloth spine with inlaid title panel over grey board covers. Interior clean with no further writing, tears or folds and all pages tight in binding. Covers clean and unscuffed. Alec Buckels (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition, Limited Edition. Limited Edition 236/250 signed and numbered by De La Mere This book is really tightly bound with no pages missing and no noteworthy internal faults. Externally it remains solid, however the cover is tired, but complete, there is a slight tilt to the book and a pink mark on the title page. Pictures show the actual book. Rebound this would be a first class volume. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. This first American edition of Peacock Pie was signed and numbered by Walter De La Mere - copy number18 of only 500. It is 'embellished' by Claude Lovat Fraser, to magnificent effect. The buckram binding is in cream and the original protective cover is in place, which is unusual. A gorgeous example of expensive book production. There is a superb contemporary bookplate at the front endpaper, 'MAY VREELAND HER BOOK'. Utterly charming classic. Claude Lovat Fraser (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. #139 of 210 printed. dj: none. book: tight binding. faint wear & soiling to spine. calling it good (avg). Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 60 haunting Poems. Includes: The Three Cherry Trees; The Scarecrow; When the Rose if Faded; Sleep; The Ghost. Crimson cloth cover with bright Gilt lettering and Linear Margin on front. Gilt Lettering on spine. 92 p. pages, 5 1/2" Tall. Slight fading to spine. Slight edge wear. Name penciled on ffep and 4 very small pencil ticks on Contents page. No other inscriptions.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. An uncommon first edition of this collection of poetry from twelve authors, published at the close of the First World War. The first edition of this uncommon anthology of poetry from twelve prominent First World War era poets.With examples of verse from Edward Thomas, W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Vivian Locke Ellis, A. Hugh Fisher, Robin Flower, John Freeman, James Guthrie, Ruth Manning Sanders, J. C. Squire, Rowland Thirlmere, and W. J. Turner.Published one year after his death, this volume contains ten works by Edward Thomas, alongside Vivian Locke Ellis's poem 'April 1917, To Edward Thomas: Killed in Action'.With the inscription E Healy, 10.02.19 to the title page.With an eight page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original paper covered boards. Discolouration to back strip, with bumping to spine head and tail, and marks to rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to title page. Pages age toned, but clean. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…