Illus Colleen Browning (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover with DJ. Red cloth over boards with black lettering. Pink pictorial DJ toned, with edgewear and general rubbing. Large chip in front cover at top edge, taking out most of the title and part of the cover illustration. Chips and tears at spine. Binding clean and tight. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1960. No page numbers. Clean and bright with color illustrations throughout. Overall very good condition. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

IN SLIPCASE, imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

1st edition thus. Stories from the Middle Ages in Italy for juvenile readers, beautifully illustrated. Nice bright tight clean copy. 6-1/4 x 8-1/4, 168 pp, full-page color illus. VeryGood+ ex-library copy with almost no library markings. Hardcover in yellow cloth illus boards; no jacket but jacket blurb is pasted inside.

Large octavo (27cm). Publisher's deep red full leather binding, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and boards; silk moiré endpapers; integral ribbon bookmark; all edges gilt; 516pp. A fine, unread copy. A collectible edition from the "100 Greatest Books Ever Written" series. Introduced by R.W. Stallman and illustrated throughout by Colleen Browning. COAN p.117.

Hardcover. First Edition thus. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Association copy. This volume was previously owned by the producer of Jane Campion's film version of the book. Accompanying this volume are two different promotional packs (both for different film competitions) including various images, bound materials and, in one, a cd of the soundtrack, a copy of the Oscar Screeners' Version VHS tape and a copy of the script. A very handsome copy with a remarkable collection of ephemera. Light wear to tips (through on one), else tight, bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows light shelf wear, two seams partially split (not through), else tight and clean. Quarterbound, red coated cloth spine, marbled paper boards, black ink label, gilt lettering. 8vo. 516pp. Illus. (color plates). Signed (by illustrator) limited edition of 1500 volumes, this being number 1192. Very Good+ in Very Good Slipcase.