Bertram Abbott (12 results)

Green Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. 277 pages. old name on front endpaper.

Brown Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Textblock is very clean and tight. Binding edge and corner worn; some light wear around the spine. 158p. Size: 8vo - Over 7 3/4" -9 3/4 " Tall. Paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Stain to spine of jacket. Discoloration to jacket at back and front. Otherwise this book is in excellent condition. Owner's name in the front. Contains 16 black and white plates, and 11 drawings by Paul Nash.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. ~Bookplate of Ernest Percival Pearce. Foxing to endpapers. Tape traces to inside front board. Dustwrapper priceclipped but unfaded. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Hardback. Size: xviii, 277pp; illus.

Hardcover, 22 cm, 277 pp. Ills.: black and white illustrations. Cond.: goed / good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback with protected dust-wrapper. 22 x 15cm. xviii, 277pp. With 16 plates and 11 drawings by Paul Nash in the text. D/w a little grubby, spine slightly age-discoloured with small tear to top edge. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 16 inserted black-and-white plates, 11 drawings by Paul Nash in the text; light green buckram, spine gilt, decorative printed dust-jacket. Spine of dust-jacket just slightly dusty. A very good to fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. "Poet & Painter: Being the Correspondence between Gordon Bottomley and Paul Nash, 1910 - 1946", edited by Claude Colleer Abbott and Anthony Bertram, Oxford University Press (Geoffrey Cumberlege), London, 1955, 1st edition. Octavo (220mm x 150mm), 277 pages. Original publisher's green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering at spine. White dust jacket with red design, unclipped and now in protective acetate sleeve (removable). Features 16 black and white illustrated plates, as well as 11 drawings by Paul Nash in the text. Comprises 270 pieces of correspondence between Bottomley and Nash, accompanied by an introduction and notes from the editors. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Seller inventory #315.

1955. Oxford University Press. Hardback. Book - Good. Ex-lib.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xix, 277 pp. With 16 plates & 11 drawings in text. Original green cloth, d.j.

Small archive, extraordinarily offensive to modern eyes, which reveals the avid consumption of racialised performances in 20th century Britain and America. Created by a committed fan of the blackface minstrel, George Henry Elliott and an American blackface performer from an earlier generation, Eugene Stratton, this collection contains a Bertram Abbott's handmade booklet with its sewn card binding and 8 photographs of Elliott, an inscription from the performer and a long cutting from the Empire News telling his story, as well as a handwritten letter to Abbott, dated 1928, from John R Acery of the Ardwick Empire, Manchester where Elliott had performed. Additionally there are signed photographs of Elliott, in blackface, with his wife and two fold-out soft cover, hand crafted booklets. The first features images of Eugene Stratton; the second, George Elliott. George Henry Elliott (18821962) was a British music hall singer, dancer and a significant figure in the history of blackface minstrelsy who joined the Primrose and West Minstrels. His career which spanned over 60 years illustrates how deeply blackface and racial stereotypes were embedded in mainstream family entertainment and how for decades white audiences viewed these acts as harmless tradition while systematically ignoring their origin in racial derision. Eugene Stratton (1861-1918) who spent his performing life playing roles in blackface, came to Britain with an American minstrel troupe in 1880 and worked in the UK for more than a decade. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.