Capt Sieveking (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 48pp. Large Quarto within illustrated paper boards bumped to the extremities. Unmarked internally without inscription. Overall a nice copy of a SCARCE book condition commensurate with its age.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Nash, John (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardback, spine repaired, original pictorial boards. 25cm x 19cm. 47pp. Illustrated by John Nash, which is his first book. Edited by Paul Nash. 1st edition 1919. Boards are rubbed and worn. Archival tape repairs to page 41/42. A decent copy. (ar4).

Board. Condition: Good/Very Good. John Nash (illustrator). pp 48 undated - believed to be 1919. A firm textblock with slight browning in a moderately/worn marked cover. Pics available. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardback. Condition: G++. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 2nd Edition. Pictorial boards. All sound but text edges and covers a bit dust marked. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Nash. (illustrator). 48 pages each illustrated and with humorous verse, 2nd edition (issued weeks only after the 1st). A book of verse with the earliest illustrations for a book wholly drawn by JOHN NASH (artist RA & designer). The book is also a very advanced format with illustrated paper boards much like a 1930's cartoon book. . With an introduction about the verses by G. K. Chesterton an intro about the drawings by Max Beerbohm and an aside about it all by Cecil Palmer. Some wear to paper boards, corners edges and spine extremes, small surface loss top of front cover. Contents VG. slim square quarto. September 1919. The author is interesting. he was a captain in the 1st war, he was a POW. Went on to write science fiction stories and was at the BBC until 1956. He wrote at least 200 radio plays and one TV horror drama in 1930 with Aleister Crowley. His godfather was G. K. Chesterton and he wrote several novels on telepathy and eugenics. This was HIS first work also.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition, published in the same month as the first. Large 8vo. 47, [1] pp. In the publisher's illustrated, paper-covered boards. Text generally bright and clean, covers in very good condition with a little edge-wear and corners bumped. Neat ink signature to ffep.

Second edition. With an Introduction about the Verses by G.K.Chesterton and an Introduction about the Drawings by Max Beerbohm and something about all concerned by Cecil Palmer. 25cms x 18.5cms. Pp.48, humourous verse and cartoons throughout, owner's details to inside front cover, endpapers browned, occasional light spotting, inner hinges cracked but holding. Illustrated paper covered boards grubby with edge wear and losses to corners, spine cracked and worn. Scarce. G-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London, Cecil Palmer & Hayward, [1919]. Quarto, 48 pages with numerous illustrations. Pictorial papered boards slightly worn and tanned; neat ink ownership details on half-title; textblock a little cockled; a very good copy. 'With an introduction about the Verses by G.K. Chesterton. And an introduction about the Drawings by Max Beerbohm. And something about all concerned by Cecil Palmer. Edited by Paul Nash' (from the title page).