Robinson alan james illus (12 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 4to, 60 pp. Illus. Alan James Robinson (ilustrador).

Softcover. Condición: Fine. Octavo. (30)pp. Wilbur's introduction sets up Francis as a master technician in poetic detachment and the herald of a new, more intimate and more urgent, style of imagism. Bound in tan paper wrappers with brown thread. Fine. Housed in four-flap chemise. One of 400 copies, signed by Francis, Robinson, and Richard Wilbur. This is the artist's copy, inscribed by him to Wilbur at the frontispiece. With an additional print of the frontispiece laid in, this also signed and numbered out of 100. …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. One of 200 copies. Signed by Robinson. Small quarto. (52)pp. Wood engravings throughout by Robinson illustrate Lawrence's homages to tortoises, which to him emblematize the exuberant, sagacious, primordial, and sensual life that humanity has in the main forgone. Bound in quarter vellum with tan paper over boards and gilt titling to spine. Fine.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Octavo. (24)ff. Wood engravings throughout by Robinson illustrate the various animals taken to be more or less unicorns: rhinoceros, narwhal, swordfish, walrus, oryx, and other monoceri. The text, originally published in 1690 as a chapter of "Pseudodoxia Epidemica," or "Vulgar Errors," examines the sources of the "unicorn horn" highly prized in medicine. Fine in vellum-backed boards with white handmade paper covers. Fine. Housed in dropback box with extra suite and a copy of the prospectus. One of sixty deluxe copies, with an extra suite of proofs. Signed by the artist.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Octavo. (54)pp., frenchfold. The alphabet and the Latin and common names of the birds are printed in two colors, the letters after calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. The opening text is from "Animate Creation," a popular edition of "Our Living World," a Natural History by Rev. J. G. Wood (Vol. II, Birds, 1885). Bound by Claudia Cohen in marbled papers over boards. Fine. Prospectus laid in. One of 150 copies, signed by Alan James Robinson. …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Quarto. (52)pp. Illustrated with a signed frontispiece etching of Lawrence, in addition to eight wood engravings, all by Robinson. The text is Lawrence's Tortoise poems, reprinted here from his Collected Poems of 1928. An accompanying Introduction by Jefferson Hunter, Associate Professor of English at Smith College, offers analysis for each poem. Bound by Gray Parrot in vellum-backed paper over boards. Extra suite in a cloth-covered chemise. Prospectus with a signed wood engraving laid in. Fine in vellum-backed clamshell box. One of 90 deluxe copies, signed by the artist, Alan James Robinson, with an extra suite of the illustrations. …

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Small oblong quarto. (19)ff., frenchfold. This work marked the second time the Cheloniidae Press produced an edition of Poe's The Raven. It is in a completely new format, with nine entirely new full-page wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, and with a portrait etching of Poe as frontispiece. Bound by Claudia Cohen in quarter red morocco and paper over boards. Extra suite in a cloth chemise, which is housed with the book in a buff cloth dropback box with a morocco spine label. Faint stain to front of box, else fine. One of fifty deluxe copies, in a special binding and with an extra suite of the prints signed by the artist, Alan James Robinson.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. One of 125 copies, this out of series. Folio. (13)ff. The haunted tone of Poe's poetry is echoed in the five full-page etchings of The Raven by Robinson, who has titled and signed each one in pencil. This is Robinson's first interpretation of The Raven, and it has remained one of his finest and most sought after publications. Bound in somber-colored marbled paper over boards that when spread resemble dark, feathery wings. A fine copy in the publisher's morocco-backed folding case, this with some slight rubs to corners.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Quarto. (42)pp. Illustrated with five erotic drypoints, colored ". la poupà e," and seven wood engravings. The text was translated from the 1929 Paris edition of Comtes Antiques by Professor David Ball. Bound in quarter white leather and blue paper over boards with the frontispiece stamped in blind to the front cover by Peter Geraty. Housed in a vellum-backed dropback box with the extra suite in a paper chemise. Fine. One of 60 deluxe copies, signed by the artist, Alan James Robinson, with an extra suite of illustrations.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Folio. (40)ff. Carol's story of a boy who lives on the Magdalen Islands, where seal-hunting is the traditional occupation, and a harp seal mother and pup, is introduced by the founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Robinson's haunting images of seals and their very appealing pups are shown in eleven full-page plates, etched and printed in color, and four wood engravings. Each plate is protected by captioned blue paper. A fine copy in the deluxe binding of full limp vellum, with a gilt-edged window framing a wood engraving. Housed, together with the extra suite of plates, each signed by the artist and laid into a blue raw silk portfolio, in a matching silk dropback box. Prospectus included, but lacks original drawing. From an edition of 76 copies printed in blue and black, this is one of 26 with an extra suite of the plates. Signed by the artist, Alan James Robinson, the author, Mark Philip Carol, and Brian Davies, who provided the Foreword.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Folio. (98)pp. Illustrated with eight hand-colored etchings, four wood engravings, and six line-cuts, each protected by a guard of speckled, salmon-colored tissue, and with calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Beautifully bound by Claudia Cohen in hand-made speckled paper, with spine and edges of light blue morocco. In addition, the deluxe binding has an onlaid panel of blue morocco with a Jock Scott salmon fly in multi-color leather inlay, by Gray Parrot. The extra suite and the watercolor are enclosed in a linen chemise, housed with the book in a quarter-morocco drop-back box. This beautiful book is in fine condition with the merest blush of sunning to spine. One of fifty deluxe copies, signed at the colophon and at each illustration by Robinson. With an extra suite of illustrations, also all signed, and an original watercolor.…

Deluxe limited edition, number 30 of 60 printed, the volume and each accompanying print numbered and signed by the illustrator. The Black Cat, one of the ghastliest of Poe's Gothic tales, investigates insanity and the psychology of guilt. It was first published in the Saturday Evening Post in 1843, the same year as The Tell-Tale Heart, which shares similar themes. Alan James Robinson is the artist-director of the Cheloniidae Press and has produced the artworks for each of the Press's publications since its inception in 1979. He is particularly recognized for his realistic yet characterful depictions of animal and sea life. Large octavo, pages french-folded and untrimmed, text printed in red and black. With 11 wood engravings. [Together with] 11 wood engravings and 1 drypoint etching on loose single sheets (241 x 159 mm), signed and numbered by the illustrator, accompanied by [iv] pp. french-folded booklet printed in red and black, housed in black cloth chemise. Original black quarter morocco, spine lettered in gilt, handmade paper sides. Housed together with engravings and etchings in custom solander box. A fine copy; accompanying prints in fine condition. …