New York: Robert M. McBridge & Company, Date: 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus, with illustrations by Helen H. Kihn. Octavo. 238pp. Orange cloth titled in red. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper. 1930. Robert M. McBridge & Company US

[publisher: London, The Medici Society 1928.] Hardcover Reprint. Hardcover. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt and front cover in blind. Edges slightly foxed, bookshop label on the front paste-down, o/w very good in an added archival jacket. A handsome vintage production. Illustrated with colour plates of watercolour drawings by W. Russell Flint.
[Exeter, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 1928]

[publisher: MacMillan & Co Ltd] Hardcover RO40148759: 1889. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 218 pages. Illustré de gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte. Manque sur le dos. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
[SABLONS, France] [Publication Year: 1889]
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[publisher: London : Macmillan and Co] 228 S. guter Zustand, engl. sprachig, Einband leicht berieben u. etwas lichtrandig, Name a. Vorsatz, Seiten etwas gebräunt LIEFERZEITEN / DELIVERY TIMES: DEUTSCHLAND 6 - 10 Tage EUROPA/EUROPE: 7 - 30 Tage/Days USA/WELTWEIT/WORLDWIDE: 14 - 60 Tage/Days (!!!) +++ Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450
[Eckernförde, Germany] [Publication Year: 1986]
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[publisher: MacMillan & Co Ltd] Hardcover RO40148759: 1889. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Tâchée, Dos abîmé, Intérieur acceptable. 218 pages. Illustré de gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte. Manque sur le dos. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
[SABLONS, France] [Publication Year: 1889]
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[publisher: Allen and Unwin n.d. (c. 1929), London] Hardcover Quarto, original decorated cloth boards, colour plates, b&w plates, illus endpapers, pp 248. Boards slightly warped. Clean, very good condition. Charmingly illustrated tales of mythological Greek heroes: Perseus and the Gorgon, The Argonauts, Theseus and the Minotaur.
[PERTH, WA, Australia] [Publication Year: 1929]
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[publisher: Cambridge, MacMillan and Co.,,] Hardcover With eight illustrations, 255 S., In englischer Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 380 17 cm, Leineneinband (Cloth) mit goldgeprägtem Rücken u. Deckel, Goldschnitt
[Willebadessen, Germany] [Publication Year: 1859]

[publisher: Macmillan and Co] Hardcover RO60122569: 1892. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Intérieur acceptable. 218 pages. Illustré de nombreuses gravures en noir et blanc dans le texte. Annotation en page de garde (ex-libris). . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
[SABLONS, France] [Publication Year: 1892]
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[publisher: Philip Lee Warner, Publisher / to the Medici Society London MDCCCCXXI (1921).] Hardcover XVIII; 166 Seiten; zahlr. Tafelseiten mit farb. Illustrationen; 23,5 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Leinenband. Gutes, stabiles Exemplar; leichte Gebrauchs- u. Lagerspuren; Einband berieben; Besitzerstempel; farbiges Exlibris auf Vorsatz; Seiten geringfügig nachgedunkelt. - Englisch. - " To My children, Rose, Maurice, and Mary a little present of old Greek Fairy Tales " (Seite V). // INHALT : Author's Preface ----- I. How Perseus and his Mother came to Seriphos ----- II. How Perseus vowed a rash Vow ----- III. How Perseus slew the Gorgon I ----- IV. How Perseus came to the Aethiops ----- V. How Perseus came home again ----- I. How the Centaur trained the Heroes on Pelion ----- II. How Jason lost his Sandal in Anauros ----- III. How they built the ship 'Argo' in Iolcos ----- IV. How the Argonauts sailed to Colchis ----- V. How the Argonauts were driven into the Unknown Sea ----- VI. What was the End of the Heroes ----- I. How Theseus lifted the Stone ----- II. How Theseus slew the Devourers of Men ----- III. How Theseus slew the Minotaur ----- IV. How Theseus fell by his Pride // ILLUSTRATIONEN : 'He took Danae and her babe down to the seashore, and put them into a great chest and thrust them out to sea' -- She stood and looked at him with her clear grey eyes' -- 'All night long the sea-nymphs sang sweetly, and the Tritons blew upon ...
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[publisher: Macmillan and Co, Cambridge] Hardcover First Edition The first edition of this charming children's retelling of Greek mythology, illustrated and written by Rev. Charles Kingsley. The work of university professor, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet Charles Kingsley, best known for several historical novels, including Hereward the Wake and Westward Ho!.With eight illustrations, including a frontispiece, by the author. Collated, complete.Including the stories of Theseus, the Argonauts, and Perseus.With the bookplate of Thomas Harrison to the front pastedown.With a publisher's advertisement to the rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail, otherwise externally very smart. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout. Pages bright and generally clean, with spotting throughout, and the odd pencil notation. Good
[Bath, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1856]
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ISBN10: 3368301756, ISBN13: 9783368301750, [publisher: Outlook Verlag] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Reproduction of the original.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2022]
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[publisher: Macmillan, Cambridge] Hardcover First Edition First edition. Illustrated by the author. Tan cloth decorated in black. Textblock slightly rippled, bookseller's early clipped catalogue description tipped onto front fly with owner's contemporary inscription on verso, small dampstains on rear endpapers, boards moderately soiled with a few small stains, spine toned with several chips and tears, good only. Small bookplate of noted British bibliophile, Eric Stanley Quayle on front pastedown.
[Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1856]
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[publisher: Ernest Nister] Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustandsangabe altersgemäß. Sofortversand aus Deutschland. Artikel wiegt maximal 1000g. Buch ohne Jahresangabe. Angegebenes Erscheinungsdatum ist geschätzt. Vorsatz beschriftet. Ecken und Kanten bestoßen. 296 Seiten. Erscheinungsjahr circa 1910. In englischer Sprache. Einband mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren sowie leicht verfärbt. Stockfleckig. Goldschnitt.
[Obersulm, Germany] [Publication Year: 1910]
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[publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited] Hardcover Scarce in any printing. Ex-lib with the usual labeling. Dark red boards with gilt lettering. Slight fading to spine/boards. Pages/boards clean, NO foxing or markings. Binding sturdy. Protected in removable archival plastic sleeve.
[Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1908]

[publisher: Macmillan and Co, London] Hardcover Kingsley's classic retelling of the Greek stories of Perseus, the Argonauts and Theseus, in a prize binding from Wadham House, Hale. With a bookbinder's label for James Galt and Co, Manchester, to the front pastedown. Featuring a number of illustrations by the author. With an ink inscription to the front blank reading: 'Midsummer 1903. Form II v. Second Prize awarded to E.N. Aske. H. Aske M.A. Principal'. In a full calf prize binding, with marbled endpapers. Externally, a little shelfwear, with slight fading to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Bright and clean, with just the odd small spot. Fine
[Bath, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1902]
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London: Relfe Brothers, Ltd, Date: 1900. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo. With notes by F. Gorse. Illustrated with a map and halftone plates. Prize binding, signed "Relfe Brothers, Limited, London" in contemporary green morocco with gold tooling on both boards, coat of arms with motto "In Hortis Reginae" stamped in gold on front board, gilt spine divided into six panels with maroon titling label, turn-ins stamped in blind, floral endpapers in blue and gold, all edges marbled. Presentation bookplate (printed in gold and completed in manuscript, dated 1907) on front pastedown. Modest sunning to the spine and edges of the boards, near fine. A handsome prize binding designed for the Queenswood School at Clapham Park, a prestigious Methodist boarding school for girls. 1900. Relfe Brothers, Ltd US

[publisher: London: Philip Lee Warner, publisher to The Medici Society Ltd, 1912] First Edition First Flint edition, number 463 of 500 copies printed on handmade paper There were also 12 copies printed on vellum. Lancelyn Green stated that "no one has caught the magic and the music and the wonder of the old Greek legends as Kingsley did" (p. 132), and Kingsley's collection is perfectly complemented in this edition by Flint's illustrations. Gardner notes that reprints of this title in the 1920s only included nine of Russell Flint's original 12 colour plates. The 15 stories feature Perseus, Theseus, and the Argonauts. Keith S. Gardner, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Unsigned Limited Edition Works of Sir William Russell Flint, 1994, p. 116; Roger Lancelyn Green, Tellers of Tales, 1946; Ransom, p. 395. Quarto. Original full limp vellum, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, original green cotton ties, top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream silk bookmarker. Later slipcase. Colour frontispiece and 11 coloured plates, with captioned tissue guards, all by Russell Flint. Minor colour variance to vellum, as usual; a fine copy.
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