john drinkwater wilfred whitten (12 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. Book is in fair condition due to foxing on first few pages. Spine is tight. No jacket.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good Internally. No Jacket. Many Photos, Some Colour. Ilustrador. First Edition. 4to, blue cloth, rather faded in places, wear at extremities but internally fine. An attractive copy of London after WWI as seen by artists of the day. 38 pp + 80 plates.ending with London from an airship, some plares colour Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condición: G+. 1st Trade Edition. First Trade edition (Preceded by a limited edition). Undated but 1924. Bound in blue cloth with gold lettering 80 color and b&w plates, text by Drinkwater and others. 4to size, 38 pp text and full page plates. Good+ copy, binding is soiled, has a water mark at the edge of the rea r board, no damage inside. Cloth spine tips are chipped and frayed. En dpapers foxed, has dust spotting to the edge of the page block. The pl ates are all in VG or better condition with only a few having tiny dus t spots at the margins.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. PHOTOS Ilustrador. 1st Edition. THE LONDON OF THE 1920'S EXPRESSED IN ART WITH ESSAYS BY NOTED WRITERS SOLID CLEAN AND BRIGHT BOUND IN BLUE WITH PERFECT GILT LETTERING A GRAND VIEW OF THE CITY SHOWN BY ITS ARTISTS LIGHT WEAR TO BACK HINGE PREVIOUS OWNERS BOOKPLATE TEXTBLOCK IS FINE A RARE TITLE VERY WELL PRESERVED.

Hardcover. Condición: Good+. Navy cloth cover is frayed at corners and spine caps and sunned on spine but in good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and very good. .; 0 pages.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. xxxviii, (80), pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to front board & spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Wear to spine ends and edges with short tear. Foxing to prelims. With 80 full-page plates. VG 4to. Illustrated.

Full Cloth. Condición: Fair. Original full blue cloth with gilt lettering. Heavily worn with chipping at the extremities. Mild foxing to the paper. Color plates are in good condition. Overall a READING copy only. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condición: Acceptable. reading copy only - damaged /worn /marked. May be ex-libris Oversized.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original Oxford blue cloth covers, gilt stamped title lettering to the spine and to the front cover, top edge gilt, marble end papers. 4to. 11¼'' x 9''. Contains (xxxviii), 38 pp followed by 80 full-page single-sided monochrome and colour plates on quality art paper, the last plate being London from an airship. In Fine condition. Heavy volume 2 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. LONDON (Londinium).

Leather. Condición: Very Good. Not Stated Ilustrador. A smart collection of uniformly bound volumes on the literature of the world, from George Newnes Limited. Seven volumes. This set contains: The Outline of Literature, 1923-1924. Complete in two volumes. Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title page, twelve colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A study of world literature, with chapters on the first books in the world, Homer, the Bible, Greek myth, Shakespeare, Milton, the Restoration dramatists, Dr. Johnson, Robert Burns, Goethe, Wordsworth, Byron, Dickens, and more. Edited by John Drinkwater, an English poet and dramatist, known as one of the Dymock poets. The World's Library of Best Books, 1924-1925. Complete in five volumes. Each volume is illustrated with a colour frontispiece, colour title page, eleven colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed collection of studies on some of the best books in the world, with chapters on Antony and Cleopatra, The Pickwick Papers, Barrack-Room Ballads, Don Juan, and A Doll's House, amongst others. Edited by Wilfred Whitten, a British writer and editor whose pseudonym was "John O'London", from where the influential John O'London's Weekly obtained its name. Dated from the British Library. Bound in half morocco with red cloth boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities resulting in minor loss. Fading to the spines with the odd small mark to the boards. Further fading to the rear board of volume IV and front board of volume V of The World's Library of Best Books, with a small puncture mark to the front board of volume V. Light cocking to the front board of volume V of The World's Library of Best Books. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Very Good. book.

Quarter Black Leather. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. xxxviii, 80 plates (some in colour). 1924. First edition. This edition-de-luxe is limited to 200 numbered copies (this is number 148) each containing as frontispieces pencil signed proofs of an original lithograph by Frank Brangwyn, R.A., and an original etching by W.P. Robins, R.E. Original publisher's quarter black leather - gilt embossed to the spine - over blue cloth boards - gilt embossed to the front board. No inscriptions. Upper edge gilt. Boards with bevelled edges. Some mottling to the cloth - chiefly to the lower corner of the front board and board edges - much less so to the rear board. No signs whatsoever of any damp or other damage to the pages. A bump to the head of the rear board edge. A very good, clean, tight copy of this scarce edition-de-luxe complete with super flat signed Frank Brangwyn lithograph.

Condición: Collectible. FIRST. nFINE. Large, blue cloth boards, bright gold titling on cover and spine. Gilt top edging. Decorated endpapers. London of the grander days before the world war - the people, the cityscape, the landscape, and even the days immediately after. A Scarce surviing high-grade copy. Illustrations in black & white, in sepia-tone, and a hand full in color. Rare in this condition. A special post WWI memento. Large volume. International delivery requires Expedited USPS rates. [B145].