Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Wilfred Jones (illustrator). Llimited Edition. Rochester: Printing House of Leo Hart, 1932. 8vo. Unpaginated. Quarter vellum & tan paper boards, spine letters red, Chinese script in red on front cover, top edges gilt. Four small holes in spine, rest of book in fine condition. Lacks slipcase. #547 of 950 printed on Ikawara paper signed by illustrator Wilfred Jones, typography by Will Ransom, Chinese characters by San Ho. Thirteen colorful illustrations including endpapers first printed in black and white and finished by hand in color, all humorously presented in text and image.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Illustrator.
Published by Printing House of Leo Hart, Rochester, 1932
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Jones, Wilfred SIGNED (illustrator). Limited First Edition. Tan paper covers with yellow spine has light foxing to spine and fore edges. This book is #441/950 printed on Okawara paper under the direction of leo Hart . Illustrations are by Wilfred Jones (SIGNED ON LIMITATION PAGE) with typography by Will Ransom and Chinese characters by Sang Ho. The pages appear unread. Title on spine has some flaking to the T and O and light soil at top. Slipcase is heavily worn and rubbed. Signed by Illustrator(s).
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. A clean, tight, limited edition (578/950) tight hardcover--vellum spine, paper covered boards--with (uncut) double leave signatures, and color illustrations printed on Okawara paper. Very good condition book in slipcase which has split lower edge. e42 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.
Published by Leo Hart, Rochester, NY, 1932
Seller: Feldman's Books, Menlo Park, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good to Fine in VG Box. Wilfred Jones (illustrator). Limited Edition. Number 864 of 950 copies, signed by Wilfred Jones. Color plates.
Seller: John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Signed
Rochester: Leo Hart, 1932. 8vo, 35 pp. Printed in black and red. Quarter vellum with decorated paper covered boards in a matching paper over card slipcase. A fine copy, slipcase rubbed and lightly worn. § Number 742 of 950 copies, signed by the illustrator Wilfred Jones. Printed on Okawara paper and produced under the direction of Leo Hart at his printing house in Rochester, New York, with typography by Will Ransom and the Chinese characters by Sang Ho.
Limited edition, signed by the illustrator, of Lamb's diverting and digressive essay on the Pig, for whom he has much appetitive affection but no pity whatever. A deluxe and colorful production, with illustrations mimicking Lamb's pseudo-historical account of the ancient Chinese invention of the titular culinary technique, developed and refined "I forget in whose dynasty." 8'' x 6''. Original decorative yellow, orange and gilt paper boards, in matching slipcase. Edition of 950 copies printed on Okawara paper, with illustrations by Wilfred Jones, typography by Will Ransom, and Chinese characters by Sang Ho. This copy numbered 767 and signed by Jones at colophon. 35 pages. Light edgewear and mild scuffing to boards; spine lightly sunned with touches of soil. Slipcase scuffed. Very good plus in very good slipcase.
Published by The Printing House of Leo Hart, Rochester, New York, 1932
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Signed
Color illustrations. Signed by illustrator Wilfred Jones. Limited Edition, 879 of 950 copies. Quarter vellum in slipcase. Handmade paper, partially uncut. Food appreciation writing by 19th-century English essayist Charles Lamb. Very good, bookplate on verso of front free endpaper; shelf wear to slipcase.
Published by The Printing House of Leo Hart, New York, 1932
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Wilfred Jones (illustrator). Signed by artist. Book is fine with original glassine cover, split at spine edge with a few tears to top and bottom front edges. Boards and interior are unused with gorgeous vivid illustrations. Slip case intact with rubbing to surfaces and light wear to edges and spine ends.
Published by The Printing House of Leo Hart, Rochester, New York., 1932
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
First edition with these illustrations. Octavo. pp [iv], 37. Colour illustrations printed in pochoir by Wilfred Jones. Pigskin-backed paper boards, lettered in red. Printed on oriental Okawara paper. Typography by Will Ransom, Chinese characters by Sang Ho. A somewhat bizarre stab at orientalism. The pictures were first printed in black and then the vivid Japanese watercolours were done by hand by a team of young artists who copied from originals done byJones. One of the figures depicts George Bernard Shaw squeezing his nose. One of 950 numbered copies signed by the artist.Fine in publisher's very good patterned paper-covered card slipcase split at one edge.
Published by Leo Hart, Rochester, 1932
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Leather & Boards. Condition: Near Fine. Wilfred Jones (illustrator). 1st of This Edition. 8vo. Gilt lettered quarter blue morocco over patterned textured tie dye paper boards. Top edge gilt. Blue "starry night" endpapers. Unpaginated. Edition limited to 950 copies of which this is a REVIEW copy signed by the illustrator. 13 pages of striking colour plates. This is a specially bound copy and is rare thus. Near fine with clean sharp interiors.