Brook Greaves (21 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. R.B. Brook-Greaves (illustrator). First Edition. From the Latin of Juvenal. Introduction by F.A. Wright. With eight somewhat repulsive (it's all a matter of taste) collotype illustrations by Brook-Greaves. Heavy rubbing through cover cloth at lower corners; extremities otherwise lightly-to-moderately worn. Spine cloth slightly faded and with a couple of very small darkened spots. Few tiny scars to illustration adjoining p. 85 where illustration adhered to and then pulled away from text page. Interior otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 12 colored plates by Yarrow Jones and figures from pencil sketches by Brook-Greaves (illustrator). 1st. First American Edition; maroon w/gilt titles & decorations; modeerate wear at spine/tips; 269 clean, unmarked pages.

Cloth. Condition: G/NO DUSTJACKET. Half-tones (illustrator). New York, NY: Rarity Press. G/NO DUSTJACKET. 1932. . Cloth. 8vo., xliv, 95 pp., Bumped, slightly yellowed. .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24-48 hours. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding sound. Some rounding to spine and light wear on cover. Missing dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. R. B. Brook-Greaves (illustrator). 1st Edition. Juvenal. Woman a Satire from the Latin of Juvenal. NY: Rarity Press, 1932, 1st. edition, 95 pp. *** Juvenal liked women OK, just not wives. In this satirical work he found wives to be idle, stupid, deceitful, cruel, selfish, and licentious. There was no social media in his times, so he did not get canceled for this work. Introduction by F. A. Wright. Frontis. and seven (7) collotype plate illustrations by R. B. Brook-Greaves. The writing style is poetical, which was very fashionable then. The original color illustrated dust jacket by Brook-Greaves (not price clipped) is in a clear protective cover. This book is in my inventory and the images are of this particular item. *** Bound in plum cloth boards and spine with small silver illustration on front cover. Covers are clean with very light wear. Jacket has light soil, moderate chipping at spine ends and at corners, some rubbing along folds. The contents are clean and complete in a good binding. VG+ in G dust jacket. *** 9.5 inches tall by 6.5 inches.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. E. Yarrow Jones and R. B. Brook-Greaves (illustrator). First Edition. An extended, informative and absorbing dissertation on the childhood/youth of animals. Burgundy cloth binding with gold gilt lettering and illustration of lion, lioness and cub on cover. Uncut side and bottom edges. 269 pages. Supported and enhanced by 12 full-page coloured plates from paintings by E. Yarrow Jones and numerous figure pencil drawings by R. B. Brook-Greaves. Scuffing and minor damage to top and bottom of spine binding and a small bump indentation on bottow edge, elsewise a bright, clean, tight copy! LRS2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. Octavo. Eight collotype plates. Condition: lower 1 1/2" of dust jacket spine torn away; minor wear & nicking to DJ; pages slightly toned; else very good in good DJ. 95 pages.

Brook-Greaves, R. B. (illustrator). One of 500 numbered copies. Small 4to, pp. xliv, 132. Index of names. Introduction by F. A. Wright, illustsrated by R. B. Brook-Greaves. Patterned paper, used as end-papers also; three-quarter turquoise leather, stamped in gilt. TEG. Ex library with stamps, bookplate under a pocket, labels. Cover worn at edges, o/w a VG tight copy.

Hardcover Bound Soft Cover. Condition: Good. E. Yarrow Jones and R.B. Brook-Greaves (illustrator). 12 color illustrations tipped in. Strong thick brown paper stock. Exterior has moderate to significant wear, including scuffs, rub marks, spine edge splitting, dampstaining on rear that has caused some page rippling around edges. Book.

Publishers Illustrated Covers. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. E.Yarrow Jones and R.B.Brook-Greaves (illustrator). First Edition. A serious treatment of the subject without being overly technical. 12 good colour plates by Yarrow Jones with tissue guards and numerous b/w illustrations throughout the text. 269pp. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed. Inscription to front end paper. Size: 245x160mm.

4To Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ltd Ed. 132pp. Limited numbered edition, #391 of 500. Paisleyed boards, leather points and spine, golden lettering on spine. Text and artwork is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are intact, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate++ overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, board edge and corner rubbing, foxing and blush on textblock edges and throughout.

4To Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ltd Ed. 132pp. Limited numbered edition, #364 of 500. Paisleyed boards, leather points and spine, golden lettering on spine. Text and artwork is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are intact, textblock is square with pointed corners. Moderate++ overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, board edge and corner rubbing, foxing and blush on textblock edges and throughout.

4to Hardcover. Condition: Good. Brook-Greaves, R.B. (illustrator). 132p. A limited-edition copy, numbered, with only 500 printed. Warm pages are unmarked with b/w illustrated plates and scattered foxing. Bound in three quarter leather with marbled boards, five raised bands on spine, gilt lettering, and rubbed extermities. Binding is tight, hinges are securely attached. Ex-libris bookplate present on ffep.

Condition: Very Good. First edition thus, undated but was also published in 1932 in America, probably at the same time. Limited to 500 copies on deckle-edged antique laid paper watermarked Zephyr, copy no. 141. Hardcover book . Recent rebinding by A. Nardi of Sao Paolo in half dark brown leather and marbled boards, with gilt title and decorations to spine in compartments, top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. xliv + 132pp, quarto. With original green paper front wrapper bound in. With 8 collotype illustrations in guarded plates by R.B. Brook-Greaves. Introduction by F.A Wright. A few small marks to covers, lightly bumped corners and light rubbing to edges; otherwise bright. Occasional foxing & marks to pages, heavier to prelims and at end leaves, a few pencil marginalia and neat ink numbering of commentary sections. A Very Good copy. Pictures available.

First Edition Thus. R. B. Brook-Greaves collotype illustrations. Interesting look at Roman era women. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. R. B. Brook-Greaves (illustrator). First edition. A limited edition work on Juvenal's satirical poetry, with eight collotype illustrations by R. B. Brook-Greaves. The first edition.Limited to five hundred copies, this being no. 196.With eight collotype illustrations by R. B. Brook-Greaves. Collated, complete.On the satire of women in Juvenal's Roman poetry, with an introduction from F. A. Wright. In the publisher's original cloth quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright with light scattered spotting throughout, heaviest to first and last leaves. Near Fine. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. R B Brook-Greaves (illustrator). An unusual work consisting of Roman poet Juvenal's reductive views of 'Woman', accompanied eight full plate illustrations. With eight plates of collotype illustrations depicting female nudes from artist R. B. Brooks-Greaves. With a tissue guard to each plate bearing an informative description of what is depicted, as it relates to the views of Juvenal. Collated, complete.This is no. 21 of 500 copies on deckled-edged antique laid paper.Roman poet Juvenal's satire on women, subtitled 'a satire in the form of an epistle, addressed by Juvenal to his friend Postumus on hearing of his intended marriage'.With a lengthy introduction from F. A. Wright, a British translator whose most notable work was 'Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle'. The introduction covers misogyny in literature and the role and rights of women in Roman society. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards. General shelf wear, with light bumping to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the occasional light mark. Very Good. book.

108 [1] pp. With tipped-in color plates and text illustrations in black and white by E. Yarrow Jones and R. B. Brook-Greaves. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed boards with applied color illustration on front panel, in dust jacket illustrated with the same color plate. First edition. Faint reddish stain near the red cloth backstrip along short sections of the joint area; very slight wear to binding; clean, tight and sound in a slightly dampstained dust jacket which is missing the bottom four inches of the backstrip.

Condition: New. Jones, E Yarrow; Brook-Greaves, R B (illustrator). Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Jones, E Yarrow; Brook-Greaves, R B (illustrator). Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Jones, E Yarrow; Brook-Greaves, R B (illustrator). PRINT ON DEMAND.