The Merry Piper by Gaze, Harold - 1925

Little, Brown, 1925-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

0 Written and illustrated by Harold Gaze. First Edition/First printing, published by Longmans Green & Co, London 1925. 8 Colour illustrations present. Page 88 illustration loose. Gift inscription and date to blank 2nd endpaper. No other marks or inscriptions. Spotting to page edges and endpages. Ink mark to top edge of several pages at front. Grey cloth Covers with Blue text and silhouette illustrations have wear to edges with associated small sections of fraying. Front board slightly bowed.

Little, Brown. Collectible - Acceptable. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Company, 1925. 1st US edition. 8vo hardcover. 247pp. Illustrations, color plates. Fair book. No dust jacket. Spine heavily worn. Pencil markings on cloth covers. Front hinge cracked. Gifter's inscription on half title page. Slightly dampstained. (Fairies, Fantasy, Juvenile Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1925. 1st edition US. Hardcover. Fine. Gaze, Harold. 1st ptg., 8vo, full yellow pictorial cloth stamped in dark red, with lovely silhouette endpapers printed in blue on powder blue paper, eight color plates and scattered full and partial page line drawings by Gaze. Fine in a scarce good to very good jacket. Small St. Paul bookstore sticker to bottom back paste down in price clipped dj with several very small chips, moderate staining to the top of the jacket cover and 1/2"x3" paper loss to the bottom. No previous owner's marks. Ad for The Goblins Glen illustrated by Gaze, on the rear jacket flap. Uncommon in jacket.

London: Longmans, Green, 1925. Pp. [viii]+248(last blank), 8 coloured plates (the frontispiece with tissue guard), black & white half-title and title page decorations, text illustrations (12 full page), pictorial endpapers printed in blue; f'cap. 4to; pictorial grey cloth, lettered and decorated in navy, the boards a trifle sprung and slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed, the fore-corners slightly bruised; hinges starting at a couple of points, several leaves faintly creased at corners, a couple of tiny edge chips, scattered light foxing and occasional slight soiling; Longmans, Green, 1925. First edition. Muir 2709. *Harold Gaze (1884-1963) was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and spent some of his childhood in Australia, before moving with his mother to England. In 1917, he returned to Australia, settling first in Melbourne, where he was an exhibiting member of the Victorian Artists' Society. Later he moved to Sydney, then spent some time in New Zealand, before returning to London in 1922. For… Read More

Little, Brown. Good. 1925. Hardcover. Longmans Green, 1925. First British edition. Ink gift inscription. Grey cloth lightly worn and bumped, blue silhouettes and lettering. Complete with 8 color plates. Faintly foxed. Laid flat in a few places, holding fast. Small split front innner gutter. Thumb nail size tip missing one leaf. Dj rubbed and soiled, quite presentable.; 247 pages .

London: Longmans, Green and Company, 1925. First Edition. The Merry Piper is an exuburant and rambling adventure by Harold Gaze (1885-1962). Born in New Zealand, Gaze came to Melbourne in 1918 and stayed until 1921, producing a vast quantity of high quality work during a short space of time. He published four books in 1919 alone. Many of the plates that adorn his books were probably produced before the Melbourne publishing period, and a few clearly date as far back as 1910. One of the most enigmatic Australasian juvenile illustrators, little is known of his early life or artistic training. Commercial publishing success in the United States eventually led Gaze to settle in Pasadena where he continued his dual career as a munitions expert, truly an odd blend of violence and sensitivity. Gaze is a confident and skilful watercolourist, a master of the opaque application technique that gives his work a feel of magical translucence. The plates and vignettes are reminiscent of the work of Arthur Rackham… Read More

London:: Longmans, Green and Co.,, 1925.. First edition.. publisher's illustrated cloth in dust jacket with applied color illustration.. Light foxing to the fore- and top and bottom edges, with a very few spots of scattered foxing to pages at beginning and end; otherwise a fine copy in an attractive example of the jacket, with a tiny chip at the top of the spine and some light soiling to the rear panel. . Small 4to,. Written and Illustrated in color by Harold Gaze..