Open window first volume october (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. Volume one, complete in six parts, issued from October 1910 to March 1911. Quarter beige cloth with drab paper covered boards. Light marking to covers. Slight wear to corners. Top page edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Browning to page edges. Light browning to pages, one plate has a light water stain to upper corner, otherwise clean throughout. Illustrated. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 4.75 x 5.75 inches (12 x 15 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 376, [2], iv (Index).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt. Covers very slightly marked, free endpapers slightly embrowned. With the pencilled ownership signature of J.M. Wattie. Contributors include Gilbert Cannan, F. Tennyson Jesse, "Katherina" Mansfield, Edward Thomas ("The Jolly Drovers"), Beryl de Zoete; illustrators Maxwell Armfield, Noel Rooke and Jack B. Yeats. Collects the first six issues of the periodical The Open Window, including Katherine Mansfield's "A Fairy Story" (December 1910, printed when she was 22) - thus antedating by six months her first formal appearance in book form, In a German Pension.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. 16mo. 378, [4]pp. Illustrated with many full-page plates reproducing in black-and-white artwork by Jack B. Yeats, Maxwell Armfield, Auguste Rodin, and others. Detailed four-page "Index to Volume One." Publisher's quarter vellum gilt and papercovered boards. Top edge gilt. Faint toning on the spine, a near fine copy with the binding bright, and the text and illustrations very fresh and clean. Prints the first appearance of "A Fairy Story" by Katherina [Katherine] Mansfield, three poems by James Stephens, "The Jolly Drover" by Edward Thomas, and contributions by Frank Swinnerton, Hugh de Selincourt, Yone Noguchi, Herbert Trench, and others. This volume constitutes Katherine Mansfield's first appearance "between boards" (in the publisher's binding) preceding her first book, *In A German Pension*, published in December, 1911. An early short story by Katherine Mansfield (as 'Katherina' Mansfield) and her first appearance "between boards" (in the publisher's binding of Volume One of 'The Open Window'); Mansfield's first book, In A German Pension, was published in December, 1911. (58980) $175.00.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. 24mo. Volume one only. Measuring approximately 6" x 5". Gilt-stamped vellum spine, blue papercovered boards, top edge gilt. Some pages roughly opened, glue stains on cracked hinges, faint dampstains on boards, spine darkened and frayed, a good only copy, lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Contributors include Vivian Locke Ellis, Stephen Reynolds, James Stephens, Claude Shepperson, Jack B. Yeats, Katherina Mansfield, F. Tennyson Jesse, and several others. Containing Katherine Mansfield's *A Fairy Story*. …

Cloth. Zustand: Good. A scarce edition of The Open Window, the First Volume, October-March 1910-11. By various contributors. With illustrations. In a cloth binding with blue paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart, lightly rubbed in places. Spine is cocked. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean. There is an ink inscription to the recto of front free-end papers. Good. None (illustrator). book.…