Auld Licht Idylls/ Better Dead by Barrie, J. M

Charles Scribner's Sons. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. New York, 1918; green cloth covered boards; no dust jacket; Ex-library with typical stamps and markings; interior unmarked with light toning; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 270 pages.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898. Volume 1 only. Full green cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, top edge gilt other edges untrimmed, slight wear to the extremities, title page in red and black. No previous owner's names, not exlibrary. Overall in VERY GOOD condition. . Full Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1896. Presumed First. . Hardcover. Good. 8vo. rough cut pages, teg .moderate edge wear. damp effect to fpd, ffep & htp. pos in pencil to htp. green cloth boards with moderate wear, back strip discoloured and rubbed top & base. moderate/heavy surface wear.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1909, Author's Edition. (hardcover) xiii, 276pp. Very good. One (1) volume. 8vo. Green cloth boards; top board with simple single-ruled border in gold, lettering in gold; spine with decorative illus devices and lettering in gold. Top-edge gilt; fore-edge and bottom-edge roughcut. Boards rubbed, shelfwear; spine sunned. Internally bright and clean. Monochrome portrait frontispiece with printed tissue guard. From "The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J. M. Barrie" set. Volume I. Additional volumes available: III, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, (set lacking volumes II, IV, V, and XI). Offering as individual titles, $20 each; all uniform volumes available for $75 as a set. If you wish to purchase the set, additional shipping will be required due to size. Please enquire..

Hodder & Stoughton, 1896. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. First Authors Edition. Hardcover. Very Good . First Authors edition. Volume 1. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth. Cover has gilt border and title, gilt decoration and title on the spine. Deckled foredge. 276pp.<br><br>CONDITION: Covers have mild wear, spine is lightly sunned. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding is tight. Full refund if not satisfied.

New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Fine. See scans and description. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. The 1897-copyright Author's Edition of J.M. Barrie's 'Auld Licht Idylls and Better Dead', one of the Barrie volumes in Scribner's series, 'The Novels, Tales and Sketches of J.M. Barrie'. Octavo, vivid forest green cloth, Top Edge Gilt, uncut fore-edge, frontis portrait photograph, tissue guard with 'J.M. Barrie' in red at the bottom, 289 pp. (x + 3 + 276 pp.). Fine, remarkably handsome and undamaged example, micro-wear at corners, bright and clean throughout; even the tissue guard is clean, white, and uncreased. Not too far from what its aspect must have been when new. See all scans. Early Barrie tales, in the case of both titles, based on his life in small-town, middle-class Scotland in the late 1880s. Hard to find in this superior condition. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective… Read More