Sirenica by Leith W. Compton (Creator) - 2013-01-28

Portland, Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher. Fair. 1915. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Spine backstrip is missing. Private owner's name and town written on a front blank. ; Limited to 450 copies. Pages unopened. .

Thomas Bird Mosher, 1927. VG. Hardcover / No jacket / In VG - slipcase

John Lane, 1913. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1913. No Edition Remarks. 178 pages. No dust jacket. White and marbled paper covered boards. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Light thumb-marking present. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding,causing boards to be slightly loose. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Some rubbed dark marking to surfaces. Pen marking to front board.

Mosher, 1927-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. No DJ. Second edition, one of only 450 copies. In cardboard, very worn and stained, slipcase. Lightly read. A foxing mark here and there in the margins (less than 10 pages). Paperclip mark to top page edges of front free page and title page. Touch of sunning to front cover front edge. Some sort of half circle mark on the center of the spine that wraps from one side to the other. Barely visible. Perhaps a price sticker was once there. No markings in book. Binding is tight.

Maine: Mosher, 1927. Hardcover. Good. Good 2nd ed. Spine splitting. Little brown spots on cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

Portland, Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. Blue paper boards with gilt decorations. Introduction by William Marion Reedy. Spine faded with cracked and chipped joints, very good. One of 450 copies on Van Gelder paper.

Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1915. Ltd Edition. Boards. 450 copies printed on Van Gelder Hand-Made Paper . Sm 8vo., 143 pp., cover rubbed, gutter splitting .

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards worn, vellum spine toned, owner . bookplate on front pastedown.. 1913. Hardcover. A decoratively bound volume of essays by W. Compton Leith, the pseudonym of Ormonde Maddock Dalton, British art historian and keeper of medieval antiquities at the British Museum. Handsomely bound in three-quarter white vellum stamped in gilt on spine with matching swirled marbled sides. Top edges gilt. 4pp of publisher’s ads at rear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 178 pages .

Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1915. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Clean pages, tight binding, clot. Sirenica by W Compton Leith with an introduction by William Marion Reedy. Limited edition of 450 copies on hand-made paper published by Thomas Bird Mosher in Portland, ME 1915.Clean pages, tight binding, cloth boards bright with two small stains to rear board

Portland: : Thomas Bird Mosher, , 1915. Limited to 450 copies. 8vo,. paper boards with gilt decorations, spine lightly faded, a few scattered spots but on the whole very good.