Beresford Egan (91 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. "A graceful and spicy bit of drollery" by the pioneering writer of erotic prose and verse. First English edition. Missing dust jacket. Light rubbing/bumping to edges of boards, a bit of tattering to cloth at spine ends. Gift dedication + previous owner's name + year in ink to front endpaper, interior otherwise clean and unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. preface pg small torn bottom inscription fly pg dj shows wear.

Condition: Very Good. 12 pages, with UK list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Softcover. Nearly all of backstrip deteriorated; covers soiled. Internally very good, with no markings. . Unnumbered pages. Illus. Quarto.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 312 pp. plus full-page color illustrations. The spine is sunned, slightly slanted, and frayed at the ends. There are small spots of wear to the corners. The front and rear endpapers have what appear to be tape shadows. In a sound binding with hinges intact. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Beresford Egan (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition Thus. Octavo (8vo); 312pp. Full cloth hardcover in dust jacket. The dust jacket is in fair condition, worn and chipped with some small adhesive tape repair, but intact. Prelims show numerous instances of brown-spotting, but reminder of contents are good to very good. The mildly erotic fiction of Belgian-born author Pierre Louys (1870-1925), translated by Charles Hope Lumley, with color illustrations by Beresford Egan, published in New York by William Godwin, Inc. (Rarity Press, etc.). Beresford Egan (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++ / Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A UK first edition. Lacks the wrapper. The book is square and tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are sound, the corners are sharp. The spine is Sunned. The gilt on the spine is still bold. The pages are very clean. The closed page edges are unmarked. No foxing. No dog-eared pages. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. A decent copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Hardcover, original clear plastic dust wrapper missing; full faux leather dark orange cloth over boards with sienna lettering stamped on spine and front, which also has a sunbeam like pattern of lines surrounding a circle with stars and title. Sewn binding. 140 pages, with preface, and indexes of 61 translated passages of15 drawings in the back. Limited Edition, but without a number given for this copy, CONDITION: VERY GOOD, binding square and tight, pages faintly age-tanned but free of any marks, save for former owner's name and address stamp on front paste-down. Spine mildly sun-faded; boards with rubbing, corner wear, and light soiling. CONTENT: This Limited Edition, privately printed for the Sylvan Press, is the authorized edition of the original 1929 Fleurs Du Mal published by the Sophistocles Press. Frontispiece states: "Dedicated to the memory of the members of the Academie Francaise, Anno Domini 1861." > Guaranteed prompt shipment, secure packaging, and free tracking. Egan, Beresford (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Quarto size pamphlet, (13 leaves), 7 full page drawings, fair condition in dust marked and stained paper covers, spine worn with loss of most of the paper, text and illustrations in very good, clean condition. No publication date but British Library catalogue suggests 1929.…

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. 312 p. Ill. Bookplate of the Fraser Institute on front pastedown, A bit wear to publisher's binding. Spine missing. Beresford Egan (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Moderate corner and edge wear, significant discoloration/spotting to cover surfaces. Heavy fading to spine, wraps around slightly to rear cover. Significant discoloration to faces of textblock, some foxing. Otherwise in swell shape, the binding is square and holding well, the pages are clean and remarkably crisp. Titling on spine and art on cover are done in a bright silver gilding. …

Soft cover. Condition: Reading Copy. 1st Edition. Trade edition of 1000 copies. A satirical satire on the then home secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks, a Conservative moral crusader of the time. The book was a follow up to 'The Sink of Solitude', satirising the Sunday Express' moral outrage at the publication of the Well of Loneliness. Contains seven black & white plates by Beresford Egan with accompanying verse and a lampoon after the plates. The staple-bound card covers are soiled worn and split with loss to the spine. Small loss to front cover. Internally clean. 4to, 180g. Beresford Egan (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition. No. 1100/1200 limited edition. Illustrated by Beresford Egan. Blue buckram and marbled boards. Sunning to spine. Light signs of wear. Internally, clean and fresh. Photos to be added. No extra for 2nd Class within UK. Please enquire for overseas. Beresford Egan (illustrator). …

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Reading copy only. Frontis detached, but present. Bookplate inside. Owner's name on front endpage. (poetry, poems).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Orange cloth with gold titling, stained. Spine tilted forward. Binding sound. No jacket, as issued. The insert with SideReal Press blind stamp is included, laid-in. Pages bright and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover - clean, no marks, clean inside, no dj as issued- from a private collection - Privately Printed in a Limited Edition for the SYLVAN PRESS, NEW YORK 1947 - clean, minimal wear, small chIp TO top of spine.

Condition: Good. New York: Privately printed for William Godwin, Inc., 1933. Sm 4to. 142pp. Illus. Good book. Spine ends frayed, joints a bit torn. Owner's name on half title. Pencil markings inside. Lower corner browned in second half of book. (poetry, sex, death) Inquire if you need further information.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition [1946]. Octavo. 5.5" x 8.5" approx. pp. 125, [1]. Frontispiece, decorative title page and numerous illustrations throughout text; full-page drawings pp. [92]-125. Original cloth, gilt title to spine. Some rubbing to extremities. Binding secure. Clean within. A 'Very Good' copy. …

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dated 1958--shows well proportioned nude blonde woman walking over books and manuscript leaves. (5' x 3"). Fine. John Rolph was a Suffolk based second hand bookseller and the bibliographer of Dylan Thomas. In his London years he had known Harrison Marks the Soho erotic publisher.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited Edition. 881/1200 limited edition. Illustrations by Beresford Egan. Sunning to spine ends. Cloth rippled along front spine edge. Light signs of wear. Inside, partial tanning to eps. Clean and bright . Dj has loss and tears to spine. Chips to front panel. In protective wrapper. Photos to be added. No extra for 2nd Class. Please enquire for overseas for options. Beresford Egan (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Limited Edition. Number 140 of only 300 copies issued, new and unread. This beautiful edition was issued without a jacket. It has an exclusive introduction by Adrian Woodhouse and a very rare item indeed, the text of a lecture given by Egan in 1933 on the subject of drawing. There are a number of brilliant drawings included in Pollen, one of which was never used in the original 1933 edition. A superlative production by Side Real Press. A super bonus: the original publisher's slip from the 1933 edition is loose laid in the book, signed by the publisher and including the blind embossed stamp of the Side Real Press. This is a specially printed addition not included in most copies. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Side Real Press hb 2013, no jacket as issued - slight spine lean, otherwise tight binding and clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Large paper edition / Limited edition 1/1499. Review copy - this being one of ten unnumbered copies struck for reviewers according to a statement on the limitation page. Fully embossed covers. Illustrated with erotic line drawings by Egan Beresford in a style similar to the work of Beardsley. A near fine copy without dust jacket (as issued). LR. Egan Beresford (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. 4to., pp. v,19. paperback, printed yellow wrappers, 5 full page b/w plates; slight crease to upper corners, minor area of loss to upper corner of front wrapper, rubbing to extremities, wrappers partially worn along spine, light surface soil to wrappers, internally clean, overall a very good copy. …

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 125, [1]. Frontispiece, decorative title page and numerous illustrations throughout text; full-page drawings pp. [92]-125. Publishers' brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cover cloth a touch rippled to boards, witha pale stain at head of spine/upper board. Contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Collected verse and prose by satirist and artist Beresford Egan (1905-1984), completed towards the end of the Second World War. …

First edition, first printing. Original white cloth with titles in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout with Beresford Egan's artwork in black and white. A very good copy, the binding square and firm. there is some light spotting and marking to the prelims, the contents are otherwise clean and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and water marked dustwrapper. Not price-clipped (42s. on the front flap). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. Beresford Egan by Adrian Woodhouse (First Edition) Limited A tight bright copy. A sharp dust jacket. Two faint patches of fade to the red on the cover otherwise bright. Fresh Brodart cover. Copy #195. Limited Edition. One of 750 numbered copies. Red cloth, pictorial gilt, silk ribbon marker. Pictorial dust jacket. Beresford Egan(Cover Artist) Beresford Egan(Interior Artist) (illustrator). BOOK. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK Edition, First Printing. no date [1943], illustrated, original orange boards, title to spine. Internally clean pages, tightly bound. In original jacket which is not price clipped. Chipping to spine and corners of jacket. Very scarce.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lovely, clean copy, 4to, green/black way lines on front covert, 1st edn, inscribed to a dead person, 158/1499cc. Surreal b/w ill. by Egan, 158/1499cc. Slight stain at fore-edge of early page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large folio. Brown Leather with gilt lettered front cover and spine. This edition, printed at the Boltolph Printing Works, consists of sixteen hundred copies, the first hundred being on special paper, numbered and signed. This is number 25 Slight warp to back cover with soiling to cover, else. Beresfor Egan (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…