Beerbohm Max Text (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Octavo. B&W illustrations. Condition: slight foxing to inner flaps of DJ; slight foxing to endpapers; else NF/NF. Pages: xxi, 244.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by 80 IlLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT (illustrator). First Edition Thus?. VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(NOPR ICE)DUST JACKET, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; RED & BLACK TITLES ON GLOSSY TAN DUST JACKET SHOWING MAN & THIN WOMAN. Back dj panel shows same woman in cameo portrait. Photograph on endpapers shows Greek statuary in front of large buildings. ; 350+pg pages; Delightful Intellectual Satire.whimsical tale of a beautiful girl who takes Oxford by storm. Written by Max Beerbohm, it is illustrated with his own sketche.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A magisterial work on the subject, organized around essays of narrower topics such as Revue, Opera, Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith; cumulatively, these are a virtual sweeping survey of theater costume without the plodding quality of a book announcing itself as a survey, and the caliber of writers and artists lend a spark to the text and artwork seldom encountered in a survey. 4to. 28 by 22.5 cm. xv, [1], 143 pp. 110 plates (frontis, then numbered I to CIX). Edges of spine rubbed,and small spots of worn through cloth along edges. Spine tips with tiny closed tearing. A hint of shake to the binding. Otherwise, a very clean copy. 46 of the plates are full color plates. Plates on a glossy paper stock, with accompanying tissue guards with crediting discreetly printed on verso, or facing side, of tissue guards. Also an abundance of illustrations scattered throughout the text.