John Crombie, First Edition (136 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. 111 pages. Boards have general shelf wear, rear cover had damp exposure and now has some streaks and some scrapes. Minor rippling to some interior pages, no sticking in text but front end papers had sticking along bottom edge, now small area of scrapes. Owner library plates on free end papers. (P1).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No. Sheila Bourne (illustrator). First Edition. Grey card cover with flaps with black titles to spine and black titles with purple border to front. On front paste down it is recorded that this is copy 49 of 225. 16 pages which concertina out from spine; pages have purple border and parts of black overcoat as illustrations. Cover is slightly shelf worn and stained. There is a minor mark at the bottom of the end page, otherwise a clean and unmarked copy. No.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited and Numbered First Edition. White paper covers with flaps. This is number 192 of 200. Pages are covers are clean, tight and unmarked with only the very slightest edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. 1979 Dobson hardback 1st Edition near fine clean tight binding with pictorial laminate covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good. Binding tight with very slight spine lean. Previous owner's initials in pen to title page. Otherwise, pages clean and unmarked. Some pages that were not trimmed at the printer have been separated inexpertly by a previous owner, leading to a few torn edges on the tops of a few pages. Selections from the Toronto bi-weekly periodical "City Hall" written by several prominent and primarily leftist Toronto politicians of the time including two future mayors.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : vii p., 1 l., 169 p. ; 19 cm. Subject : Literature History and criticism. 3 Kg.

Couverture souple. Condition: Trčs bon. John CROMBIE (illustrator). Edition originale, Édition limitée. Paris, aux éditions Kickshaws, 1983 In-12 ŕ l'Italienne (17 cm x 26 cm), 46 pp. environ. Non paginé. Broché ŕ couvertures souples. Exemplaire en trčs bon état. Édition originale numérotée 106/195 sur papier BFK Rives. Ouvrage typographique de la collection Kickshaws.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Bound in square wraps and limited to 200 numbered copies. From the collection of American books by Norman J. Sondheim, with his bookplate affixed.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description : vii p., 1 l., 169 p. ; 19 cm. Subject : Literature History and criticism. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Sheila Bourne (illustrator). 1st Edition. Spiral bound hand-printed limited edition of 650 copies. Children's book in rhyming verse. Written and designed by John Crombie. Graphics by Sheila Bourne. White art board covers. Red plastic comb binding (one tooth missing at top of spine). Otherwise in fine condition. No inscriptions.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good +. Limited Edition. Paperback with clear protective cover. No. 7 of a limited edition of only 30 copies. Fore edges of covers slightly scuffed. Clean inside. (h10).

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Paperback, spiral bound, in card sleeve. No. 31 of a limited edition of only 95 copies. This can be read both backwards and forwards, non-stop. It may also be opened out and displayed, unread. To promote a free, two-way flow of ideas by word and image. Slightest wear. An excellent copy. (h10).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Sheila Bourne (illustrator). 1st Edition. 55pp illustrated booklet printed in a limited, numbered edition of 490 copies. This is copy #127. Purple card covers with black lettering on front and spine. Drawings on front cover, title page and other pages by Sheila Bourne. In fine, unread condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. No dustwrapper, old damp-marking to brown boards but gilt titles on spine and black titles and borders on boards are still clear. Some wear to spine ends and corners of the bevelled edges of boards, but otherwise a good, internally clean and tight, copy of this small hard-cover book. Originally written a few years earlier but only published after the author's death, a long essay on the ethical aspects of George Eliot's seven novels and of her poem "The Spanish Gypsy". 114pp. Size: 12mo - over 6ž" - 7ž" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sheila Bourne (illustrator). 1st Edition. Paperback. Limited ed. 32/225. 19.0 x 12.5cm. Pp. 16 Fold-out pages, over-printed illustrations, card covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback, card covers. 15.5 x 16.5cm. [12]pp. Text printed in red, green and black. Number 159 of 200 copies. Slightest signs of use only. Contents clean and unmarked.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Bourne, Sheila (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1979. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. Limited to 150 copies. Pictorial green paper wraps. Black and white line drawings throughout. Lower front corner of both book and wrapper are very slightly creased. Else a fine copy. This is copy no. 69. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

kart. Condition: Gut. 1. Aufl. [46] S. ; 18 cm; Gutes Ex. - Elastische Fantasie ist das erste Buch von John Crombie aus dem Verlag ťKickshawsŤ, das in deutscher Sprache erscheint. . Allen Büchern gemeinsam ist das Bestreben, traditionelle Druckkunst mit innovativer Grafik oder Typografie zu verbinden. . (Nachwort) ISBN 9783980147286 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 99.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Preface by Sir Compton Mackenzie. Edited with an Introduction by Duncan Glen. Drawings by Leonard Penrice. Small quarto. Quarter calf and decorated papercovered boards. Moderate rubbing on the spine, else about near fine. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by Glen and Penrice.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Bound in square wraps and limited to 185 numbered copies. From the collection of American books by Norman J. Sondheim, with his bookplate affixed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Bound in wraps and limited to 300 numbered copies. A little minor wear, but generally clean and unread and and housed in a blue paper slipcase. From the collection of American books by Norman J. Sondheim, with his bookplate affixed. A beautifully produced book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Minimal wear to extremities - unmarked - very good+.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of this collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories by various authors. SIGNED by Deborah Crombie, John Connolly, David Morrell, Laurie R. King, Leslie S. Klinger, Dana Cameron, Catriona McPherson, Gary Phillips, Hank Phillippi Ryan and Meg Gardiner on the title page. Light bump to the top outer corner of the book. In near fine / near fine unread condition. Signed by Author.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Paperback. 16.5cm x 16.5cm. No. 85 of a limited edition of only 145 copies. Slightest wear to covers. An excellent copy.

Couverture souple. Condition: Trčs bon. Edition originale, Édition limitée. Paris, aux éditions Kickshaws, 1986 In-12 carré (17,50 cm x 18 cm), 28 pp. environ. Non paginé. Broché ŕ couvertures souples. Exemplaire en trčs bon état. Une petite bande d'insolation sur le premier plat. Édition originale numérotée 16/30 sur un beau papier de type Rives. Ouvrage typographique de la collection Kickshaws.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Trčs bon. Dust Jacket Condition: Trčs bon. 1čre Édition. livret d'art concept trčs rare , tirage 160 exemplaires exemplaire numéro 63 en état correct pour son age.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 12mo. pp 16. Original publishers grey strung wraps, lettered black. Born in England during the Second World War, John Crombie founded the Kickshaws association in 1980 with Sheila Bourne. Alongside his activity as an independent translator, he launched into typography, and imagined and produced, with or without Sheila Bourne, around 170 books in English or French, of a very personal design, often full of humor , and which he printed himself (140 with hand typography and around thirty produced by other means). Very good. Some lightly penciled easily erasable notes on a few pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Bound in square wraps and limited to 135 numbered copies. From the collection of American books by Norman J. Sondheim, with his bookplate affixed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paperback, card covers, plastic comb binding. 18 x 13cm. 69pp, [3]. 1988 First edition. Illustrated by Sheila Bourne. Number 429 of a limited edition of 500 copies. An excellent clean copy.

18,5x17 cm., unpaginated, colourful illustrated throughout, card covers; very good copy. New hand-printed limited edition of 250 copies with alternative original text of this great children book. Sprache: Französisch.