Kemp Alan Text (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. In VG+ DJ (in protector) ; Signed and inscribed to another person by artist. Green cloth hardcover. Color illustrations, New Orleans painter's work depicting the city over the years ; Folio; 128 pages; Signed by Artist.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED. Dark green cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil, oblong format. As issued. Color illus. dust jacket VG+ with minor sunning along spine panel, crease along a portion of bottom rear edge, now in mylar. 1st ed. 128 pp., illus. w/ color plates. Inscribed by Flattmann on half-title, full signature, personalized "To Noel, / With Best Wishes," dated 2004. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine/Slipcase Near Fine. Calburn, Simon (illustrator). 1st (standard). 184pp.incl.index; HB tan w/brwn.-pic.cover; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ color pic.cover w/brwn.&blue-slight rub w/spine sunned; Slipcase color pic.cover; slight rub. "This monograph on the twelve owl species that inhabit the southern African subregion has been written by a leading specialist on birds of prey and illustrated by one of South Africa's best-known bird artists." 18 lg.paintings, 40 colour sketches & numerous pencil drawings.

Sub-title reads: A collection of 68 water-colours by C. G. Finch-Davies, originally commissioned to illustrate Lt.-Col. Boyd Robert Horsburgh's 1912 volume "The Game-Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa". Number 1954 of an edition limited to 5026 copies. 4to; original purple cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper, and matching laminated pictorial slipcase; pp. 190; full-page colour illustrations to rectos, and modern descriptive text to facing versos. A few minor fox spots to edges and reverse of dustwrapper, else fine. "Gamebirds & Waterfowl of Southern Africa is the showcase for 68 exquisite watercolours by the late Claude Gibney Finch-Davies, whose life - and the tragic circumstances surrounding his death in 1920 - is described in a comprehensive biography contained in this volume. Originally, the paintings were commissioned by Boyd Horsburgh, to illustrate his book 'The Game-Birds and Water-Fowl of South Africa', published in London during 1912. It was widely acclaimed and brought Finch-Davies recognition as an outstanding bird artist. All 68 illustrations are exceptional in that they have coloured backgrounds, whereas Finch-Davies's other paintings (numbering over 1000) have simple, pencilled-in ones.".

Condition: Gut. 102 Seiten mit 49 Farbtafeln und zahlreichen Kartenskizzen, farbig illustr. Orig.-Karton, in englischer Sprache - guter Zustand - 1987. HS 3260 Buchversand erfolgt aus Deutschland. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 350.

First Edition. Number 481 of an edition limited to 1700. Very good indeed, clean and tight, in a dust jacket that is also very good indeed but has a short closed tear, now protected. Africana. Hardback. With dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited. 489 pages (complete). Hand-numbered 30 of a limited collectors' edition of 250 copies. Signed by Alan Kemp on the title page. Inscribed to Roydon C Peden (whose ex-libris plates and stamp appear on the front pastedown and frontispage). Half leather. Marbled boards. A wonderful copy. The book is housed in an earth coloured slipcase (a little scuffed). The leather lips are worn. The case is sound, assured. The boards and leathered corners and spine are wonderfully handsome and agleam with health. The paper trims have sparse, very, very shallow handling marks. The early pages have thin rims of discolouration about the edges. This is the limit of distraction. The contents are terrifically clean and clear, bright, vivid, visceral, fresh and bright, smart, serene - as if almost new throughout! fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.