Masque Days: First Edition (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Walter Crane (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1901, First Edition. Large Quarto. 8.5" x 11" approx. Unpaginated, Half title, double-page title, followed by 40 full page colour illustrations by Walter Crane, printed on French-fold uncut pages. Original cloth spine, and printed papered covers. Some rubbing and edge wear, including a few small nicks and chips to extremities. Binding secure. Printed end papers. Foxing to text-block and sporadic mild instances within. Overall a 'Very Good' copy. Walter Crane (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 40 colour plates with accompanying verse from "The Last Essays of Elia" by Charles Lamb. colour paste-down paper boards and cloth spine, covers a little darker with age and corners rounded a little, bottom edge a little rubbed, contents fine, illustrated endpapers and decorative dedicatory page, very faint presentation in pencil "Imogen from W. Ferguson, Xmas 1901" on top edge of presentation leaf. All done in the inimitable "art-nouveau" style that typified Walter Crane's work. Small quarto. 1901. Walter Crane. (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Yellow cloth spine with black lettering over colour illustrated papered boards. Unpaginated, Half title page, double paged title, followed by 40 full page illustrations printed on French-fold uncut pages(Only printed on one side of each double page). each illustration with a panel containig the narrative. 8.4 X11.25 inches.Some spotting to page edges, endpapers and adjacent pages,overall a very good copy. Walter Crane (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Not Issued. 1st Edition. Goldenrod 1/4 cloth, color illus. paper covered boards. Respectably preserved copy shows modest soiling along joints and pastedown edges along joints, with mild surface rubbing, corners a bit rubbed with very slight exposure. Mild foxing to text block fore-edge. Firm binding, a few minor internal soil marks but generally clean interior, with light toning/foxing to flyleaf versos and adjacent pages. 44 pp., bound Japanese-style, with two-color first title and final page, color double second title, 40 color plates. One leaf shows a professional repair to a closed tear. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Walter Crane (illustrator). Book.…

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Good +. First Edition. Sumptuously illustrated throughout by this classic English illustrator. No dustwrapper, as issued. Cover, particularly the edges worn, but interior fine and bright. French-fold (Only printed on one side of each page). Some minor tears. Front ffep had come away and been poorly affixed back. Owners neat ink inscription in German dated 1901 on verso of ffep. Some thumbmarks. (perversely the photo shown, is the worst view of the book, the interior being Very Good).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1901. Good condition with no wrapper. From the last essays of Elia. Attractive pictorial boards, cream cloth spine. Blue and yellow decorated endpapers. Pretty colour illustrations on every page. Unpaginated. Pages printed one side only and unopened. 11 x 8.5". Covers scuffed, edges & corners worn, Top & tail and front edge of spine a little frayed. Prize plate to front pastedown. Rear joint pulled. A few foxspots and light marks to contents. Small closed tear to lower margin of one page (no loss). Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Crane, Walter (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL PICTORIAL BOARDS WITH CLOTH SPINE, ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR THROUGHOUT WITH BLANK PAGES TO REVERSE OF ILLUSTRATIONS UNOPENED AS PUBLISHED. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 11.5 x 8.5 INCHES WITH 40 PAGES. THE USUAL EDGE WEAR TO COVER WITH BROWNING TO SPINE, CORNERS BUMPED, LIGHT BROWNING TO HALF TITLE & LAST PAGE, VERY MINOR SMALL CREASE TO TOP RIGHT CORNER OF SEVERAL PAGE MARGINS. OVERALL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH PAGES FREE FROM FOXING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Colour illustrations. Internally in fine condition, extremely clean, leaves remain uncut. There is a small scuff to inner hinge of front pastedown/free front endpaper. The attractive boards are very firm with a few light marks and edge wear. Crane, Walter (illustrator). …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. 1st 1901. Very good condition with no wrapper. From the last essays of Elia. Attractive pictorial boards, cream cloth spine. Blue and yellow decorated endpapers. Pretty colour illustrations on every page. Unpaginated. Pages printed one side only and unopened. 11 x 8.5". Cover edges worn. Some scuffing/rubbing to covers. Inscription in ink to verso of front endpaper. Light fingermarks to page margins else contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Crane, Walter (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. First edition hardback, 1901, with the original unclipped dust jacket. In overall very good used condition in a good dust jacket with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket rubbed to edges with chips and repair to spine (now protected); illustrated paper-covered boards, with yellow cloth spine, slightly rubbed to edges and a touch darkened to spine where the dust jacket is chipped. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean - no foxing; no annotation - Christmas gift inscription to half-title page dated 1907; slight toning to page-ends but text and illustrations particularly bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Walter Crane (illustrator).…

Condition: Very good. First Edition. First edition of this Arts & Crafts style-influenced children's picture book adapted from the classic LAST ESSAYS OF ELIA (1833). 11'' x 8.25''. Original cloth-backed paper pictorial boards. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Crane in color on every page. [3], 40, [1] pages, bound French fold. Evidence of former description removed from front pastedown. Some edgewear and subtle infills, moderate rubbing to boards. Interior clean. …

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. One of the popular tales of Charles Lamb, this edition beautifully illustrated by Walter Crane with colourful illustrations to every page. The first edition thus, being the first time this work was published separately from 'Last Essays of Elia'.Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout by eminent Arts and Crafts artist Walter Crane. This volume is colourful and whimsical in his distinct and influential style, with colour illustrations to every page. His drawings for this work draw fashion inspiration from a wide range of eras and style, with examples of Jacobean, Regency, and Mediaeval fashions.In the original scarce unclipped dust wrapper.The text is bound with pages folded in the Japanese style.A charming short story depicting a New Year's party by the essayist Charles Lamb, who is best known for his 1823 'Essays of Elia', and his 'Tales From Shakespeare', co-authored with his sister.Prior owner's gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper, dated Christmas 1901.Collated, complee. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Light rubbing to the extremities. A little discolouration to the extremities of the boards, and very light rubbing to the pictorial boards. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Prior owner's gift inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. A few scattered spots to the endpapers. Dust wrapper is edge worn with chips to the head and tail of the spine, head of the front wrap, tail of the rear wrap, and a smaller chip to the tail of the front wrap, with closed tears. Light handling marks to the wraps. Spine is a little age-toned, with one small tide mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. Walter Crane (illustrator). book.…

FIRST EDITION 1901 IN DUSTWRAPPER (see image 2), 4to, 285 x 210, 11¼ x 8¼ inches, yellow cloth backed colour illustrated boards, spine lettered black, grey and yellow illustrated endpapers, pages Japan folded. 40 pages of charming coloured illustrations with text inset. The New Year, upon the death of the Old, gives a party for all the special days of the year who are wonderfully and beautifully personified. Corners very slightly worn, bookseller's tiny faint blind stamp to front endpaper, no inscriptions, a touch of pale browning to half-title and final page, otherwise a Fine, tight, bright, clean copy in very good grey printed DUSTWRAPPER (dw: spine darkened, a couple of small splits to spine edges, 2 small splits across spine, 10 mm (½") missing at tail of spine, slightly worn at head of spine, small chips to corners, a few tiny closed edge tears, a few archival tape mends to blank side (see image). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. Postage at cost and all parcels sent fully tracked and fully insured.…

First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. 40 illustrated plates, each with a boxed-in text in the artist's calligraphic hand, on folded pages in the Japanese manner. Decorated endpapers. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Contemporary (1901) gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper. Lower corners rubbed. Small label removed from half-title page. Very good in the scarce, good only dustwrapper wholly split and partially defective at spine.…

Cartonato editoriale figurato a colori con ds. in tela. Sovraccoperta con piccoli difetti marginali. Minime fioriture al taglio, ma eccellente esemplare. Prima edizione. 4to (cm. 28,2), 3 pp.nn., 40(1) pp.

Newly Dressed & Decorated by Walter Crane. Illustrated throughout in color by Walter Crane. Small folio, publisher's cloth spine and boards illustrated in color. First edition. Masse p. 54. Some scattered light foxing (including the inscribed half-title page); light rubbing to the edges of the boards and corners; tight and sound. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed "with high regard" by Walter Crane for Prof. Enrico Ferri, Italian criminologist, April 1903.…

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to. 29.5 by 22 cm. 40, [1] pp. Leaves are folded in the Japanese manner, giving the leaves a substantiality. In this, one of Walter Crane's most famous works, he freely draws upon the styles of dress from the Jacobean, Georgian, Regency periods, as well as those from a vague Medieval past -- court jesters, wizards, etc. -- such as one finds in fairy tales, some ball gowns more contemporary to him. The illustrations are a pageantry of color inspired by the work's fanciful progression of the calendar. This is a near exemplary copy of the work that was a part of the Forbes Magazine Collection (which was a privately owned museum gallery). A discrete impressed stamp identifies it as such and it may thus be technically considered ex-lib, although the provenance in this instance, combined with its lovely condition, would seem to enhance the copy. The dust jacket is an uncommon survival. Externally there is one minor corner chip and light wear besides. If one lifts the jacket off the book one will see an old edge tape repair that is best to leave as is. Hardcover, illustrated paper pastedown. …

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. This is an author's presentation copy of the first trade edition, first printing of one of iconic American poet Robert Frost's precious few dramatic works. This copy is inscribed, signed, and dated by Frost within days of publication. Frost's inscription is inked in black ink in four lines on the front free endpaper recto: "To Mabel R. C. Connick | from her friend | Robert Frost | Easter 1945".Easter 1945 fell on 1 April, six days after the 26 March publication of this first trade edition (timed to coincide with Frost's 70th birthday). The subject and publication timing of A Masque of Reason create some interesting parallels with the inscription herein. Mabel Robinson Coombs Connick married Charles Jay Connick in 1920. Charles Connick, Frost's contemporary, died in December of 1945, aged 70. The gift of Frost's theological play, on Easter no less, was apropos; Boston, Massachusetts-based Charles Jay Connick was known best as a stained glass artist "who worked primarily in ecclesiastical designs" and "revived techniques and designs of English and French designers of the Middle Ages."Condition of this inscribed presentation copy is very good plus in a very good plus dust jacket. The binding is square, clean, tight, and sharp-cornered, marred only by light shelf wear to extremities and some unobtrusive mottling to the lower boards, potentially from brief and superficial moisture exposure. The contents are clean, age-toned but with no spotting or soiling. The unclipped dust jacket retains its original "$2.00" upper front flap price, is complete, with no appreciable loss, and remains bright, with no discernible toning of the brightly hued spine and front face. The jacket shows some modest soiling, mostly to the white rear face, and light wear to joints, flap folds, and extremities. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover. Iconic American poet Robert Lee Frost (1874-1963) is "generally not known as a dramatist despite his lifelong love of the theater and despite the fact that many of his best poems owe a large part of their greatness to their dramatic nature Frost's most important 'plays,' however, may be his two masques, A Masque of Reason (1945) and A Masque of Mercy (1947). Though both pieces have been staged, they are best considered as closet dramas in which distinctly human, American, and modern prototypes engage in theological/ideological debate via colloquial blank verse. In A Masque of Reason, Frost dramatizes a confrontation between God, Job, and Job's wife Thyatira. Job and Thyatira press God for an explanation of Job's seemingly unwarranted torture, ultimately eliciting the surprising confession, 'I was just showing off for the Devil.' Frost's God runs the risk of sounding smug, cruel, and cavalier, yet he seems to serve as spokesperson for Frost's own philosophy on the relationship between humanity and God. As Peter J. Stanlis observes, 'the main thrust of Frost's theme is a criticism of the human error of reading man's own rational nature into God.'" A Masque of Reason was published at a time when his stature had risen to an apex sufficient for publishers and his reading public to indulge his literary experiment. By 1945, Frost had already won all of his still-unrivaled four Pulitzer Prizes for poetry (1924, 1931, 1937, and 1943). Frost spent the final decade and a half of his life as "the most highly esteemed American poet of the twentieth century" with an accumulating hoard of academic and civic honors. Two years before his death he became the first poet to read in the program of a U.S. Presidential inauguration (Kennedy, January 1961). Reference: Crane A27.1; Tuten and Zubizarreta; Smithsonian; ANB.…

hardcover. Condition: fine. First. Illustrated color plates, each with a boxed-in text in the artist's calligraphic hand, folded pages in the Japanese manner. Slim 4to, unpaginated. Beautifully rebound in full orange crushed morocco, ornately gilt spine and covers, inner dentelles and green morocco doublures, white silk end papers, top edge gilt. Small neat presentation on title page. London: Cassel & Co., 1901. First Edition. An exquisite copy. Masse 54. Walter Crane (illustrator).…

4to. 22 (44 S.) Doppelbätter durchgehend farbig illustriert von Walter Crane. Farbig illustr. Orig.-Halbleinwandband. Erste Ausgabe. - Kapitale bestossen, Kanten berieben. 1. Doppelblatt (Vortitel und Titel) aufgetrennt, letztes Doppelblatt mit geklebtem Einriss. Sonst gutes Exemplar.

First Edition. First edition, small folio, pp. [44] frenchfold; illustrated in color throughout by Walter Crane; illustrated endpapers, original yellow cloth-backed pictorial boards; very good.