Published by Blackwell's/A. & C. Black/Penmaen Press/Perdix Press, Oxford/London/Great Barrington, Mass./Salisbury
Seller: Robert Wright, trading as 'The Bookman', Norwich, United Kingdom
US$ 13.60
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketUnbound. Condition: Near Fine. Illus. by MICHAEL McCURDY; HOWARD PHIPPS (illustrator). Four items of publishing ephemera, comprising: [1] - printed Post Card (for customers to order book catalogues) issued by Blackwell's of Broad St., Oxford; not dated (circa mid-1900s); unused; [2] - 'Books for Sportsmen: Fishing, Golfing, Shooting, Bowling, Cricket, Winter Sport' (concise catalogue of books pub. by A. & C. Black, Soho Square, London); not dated (circa mid-1900s); folded leaflet, [4]pp; printed in two cols.; illus. monochrome drawing; [3] - 'Penmaen Press, Great Barrington, Massachusettes' (catalogue of titles available); printed March, 1983; folded leaflet; illus. repro. of bw. engraving by Michael McCurdy; [4] - 'Journeyman by Walter Partridge; a printer's impressions through eighty years in a rapidly changing world' (prospectus for Partridge's autobiography pub. by Perdix Press, The Close, Salisbury); pub. 1991; folded leaflet[ [4]pp.; illus. bw. photo., and bw. repro. of wood engraving by Howard Phipps. No inscriptions. All items very clean/crisp/bright. Lightweight items, hence overseas customers will have SHIPPING CHARGES REDUCED subsequent to ordering. All items in Near Fine condition. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Ephemera.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Small quarto. (30)pp. Five wood-engravings by Phipp accompany Gant's thirteen pastoral poems. Bound in flax canvas with illustration to front cover and leather title label to spine. Fine. One of 175 copies, signed by both the poet and the illustrator.
Published by The Folio Society, London,, 1991
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
First printing: seven volumes, octavo; hardcover, green moire silk cloth boards with silver gilt spine titling; 2,441pp. [172pp. + 386pp. + 226pp. + 450pp. + 421pp. + 508pp. + 278pp.], with seven wood-engraved frontispieces and many illustrations likewise. Mild wear; spines sunned. Near fine in a matching gilt titled slipcase. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.