Illustrator Frank Dickens (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published In 1982 : 1st. Paperback Edition : Pan Books : Top Leaf Edge Yellowing & Foxing : Small Top Corner Crease To The Front Cover + Light Face Rippling To The Covers : ( Mainly The Back Cover ) : Otherwise Fine : , Still Reasonably Crisp & Tight , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Clear Text & Illustrations : Overall , A Very Nice Book . …

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Published In 1978 : 1st. Edition : M. And J. Hobbs / Michael Joseph Books : Absolutely Hilarious : You'd Never Run Out Of Party Jokes With This Book : This Copy Is In Great Condition : Just Faint Face Rubbing To The Dust Wrapper : Price Un-Clipped : Still Reasonably Crisp & Tight , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text & Illustrations : Overall , A Very Nice Book .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 12mo; xvi, 496 pages; Contents clean and secure in contemporary 19th century red leather spine and corners over marbled boards with faded gilt lettering at spine; scattered light foxing; leather rubbed with small chips. Frontispiece illustration of young Martin after a drawing by Frank Stone. Date on titlepage 1850. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit is a novel by English author Charles Dickens, considered the last of his picaresque novels. It was originally serialised between January 1843 and July 1844. While he was writing it Dickens told a friend that he thought it was his best work thus far. Several characters in this novel gained popularity, including Pecksniff and Mrs Gamp. The main theme of the novel, according to Dickens's preface, is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using the members of the Chuzzlewit family, with two of Dickens's great villains -- Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit. Dickens introduced one of the first literary private detective characters, Mr Nadgett, in this novel. It was dedicated to Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, a friend of Dickens.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Very good- (very lightest top edge stain). First in the annual Cuneo Press Christmas Book series, with 42 illustrations by Caldecott on quality Linweave paper. Limited to 1000 copies, this volume includes Mr. Pickwick's Christmas and other classic selections. A very presentable copy in the red leather labels. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott illus. First edition. Binding is Cloth Bds.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. Unpaginated. Published in 2008. New Edition of the children's classic. One of Ralph Steadman's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the American Edition, which appeared one year later. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. "Signed Copy" yellow round sticker pasted in front. A brilliant production by Ralph Steadman: Oversize-volume format. Yellow cloth boards with black titles on cover and spine, as issued. Art by Ralph Steadman. Text by Frank Dickens. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Re-presents, in a lovely collectible format, Ralph Steadman's and Frank Dickens' "Fly Away Peter". About two lonely animal-outsiders who bond together: Jeffrey, a giraffe with a short neck, and Peter, a bird who cannot fly. "Jeffrey, the giraffe with a short neck, and Peter, the bird who can't fly, quickly become friends because they are both a little different. When they decide to play together, they are surprised to find that a game of hide-and-seek will not only involve all the other animals, but also help solve their problems" (Publisher's blurb). One of the greatest artists of our time whose work has appeared in The New York Times and Rolling Stone Magazine, Ralph Steadman is best-known for his legendary collaboration with Hunter S. Thompson, the late great American journalist. Frank Dickens is beloved for his cartoons, including the popular characters Bristow, Albert Herbert Hawkins, and Boffo. He has won eight Cartoonist of The Year Awards. An absolute "must-have" title for Ralph Steadman and Frank Davis collectors. This Autographed Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the half-title page by Ralph Steadman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Edition Thus/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: The British Edition precedes the American by a full year. Copies available online command as much as $175. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Two of the finest artists of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 184365122X. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Large hardbound edition published by The Westminster Press, ca. 1925. Beautifully illustrated with full color tipped-in plates protected by guard tissue. Moderate wear to tips of spine; bottom cover corners bumped. Gift inscription (dated 1927) on front endpapers; old newspaper clipping hand-dated "1932" pasted to front endpaper. A very attractive book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 275 x 210 mm. viii; 534 pp., 20 tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue-guards. Clothbound without dustwrapper. Some slight wear to spine ends, also a little faded, in other respects a good clean copy free from ownership inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Acorn Library edition first edition thus in fine condition in very good unclipped dustjacket with a few minor tears and wear and a little foxing to the dj. (Book ref 2831).

SECOND EDITION 1967 (first published in 1963), oblong 4to, 215 x 270 mm, 8½ x 10¾ inches, yellow boards, (32) pages. Enchanting coloured illustrations throughout, simple text. Lovely story about short necked giraffe and bird who can't fly who become friends. Tiniest bump to lower corner of upper cover, no inscriptions. Near Fine in VG+ DUSTWRAPPER (dw: price clipped, several very short closed edge tears with creasing at top and bottom edges, bright and clean). The first edition of 1963 is rather elusive. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition; Reprint. Reprint of 1911 edition. Full blue leather with gilt title, decoration, and page edges. Moire silk endpapers. Limited edition - limitation not stated. 21 tipped in color plates. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 572 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. Two columns of text per page. 12mo. xvi + 496 +(2)pp. Bw engraved frontis by Frank Stone. Contemporary half leather binding. Original brown leather spine with gilt raised bands+ red leather label with gilt lettering. Brown marbled paper covered boards with green leather corner protectors with blind tooling along edges. White eps. Neat contemporary ink signature on fep. Rubbing to outer edges of boards with chipping of marbleing, corners rubbed, very slight rubbing to marbleing on front & rear. Contents top corner of frontis stained light browning stain bottom corner prelims else contents clean & tight & unfoxed. But for the stain, an attractive copy. ***.VG.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition. Dust jacket has no wear, but is price-clipped. Jacket is in a new protective Brodart cover. Spine is tight. Pages are clean and crisp. No writing inside. Little to no wear. Near fine/fine condition. Early illustrations by Steadman, published the year before Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Thus. Upper parts of boards rubbed with some staining to vellum. Splits to gutters at hinges. Lacking ribbon ties. Minor foxing. Previous owners' names on blank recto of the limitation leaf and on rear endpaper.; This copy is number 36 of a limited edition of 350 copies. Signed by the illustrator on the limitation page "Frank Reynolds". No date [1913]. [8], 359, [1 (blank)] pages + 21 tipped-in colour plates (including frontispiece). Full vellum boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt and black oval silhouette portrait illustration in middle of front board. Page dimensions: 285 x 224mm. Top page edges gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Captioned tissue guards present to all plates.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New Edition 1967. (First published in 1963. Oblong 8vo. Bound in yellow cloth with black lettering on the spine. Dust wrapper printed in colour is price clipped. SIGNED BY RALPH STEADMAN in red ink on title page. Ex libris plate of C.H.L.Bledisloe on front blank verso of front board.The giraffe with the short neck, and Peter, the bird who can t fly, are delighted to become friends because they are both different. When they decide to play together to cheer each other up, they hardly expect that a game of hide-and-seek will not only involve all the other animals but surprisingly solve their problems. Rare. One of the first children s books that Ralph Steadman illustrated. Size 22 x 27cm (8.5 x 10.5 inches). Ralph Steadman (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: VG+/VG+. [6], 572 pp. 20 full-color tipped-in plates by Frank Reynolds. Captioned tissue guards. 4to. 11" x 8-1/2" Red cloth binding with elaborate gilt & black stamping. Pictorial eps. Buff printed dust jacket (professionally restored) A reissue of the magnificent 1911 Hodder & Stoughton edition (cf Gimbel B-191).…

Octavo. 609pp., and early copy, engraved frontispiece and title page, regular title page. A fine copy without foxing bound in 3/4 brick Morocco over light brown cloth, raised bands, spine ruled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers. A lovely copy.