Lear Edited Holbrook Jackson (6 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Jacket. First Edition. The copyright page has 'First Published in 1947'. No additional printings are indicated. Illustrated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edward Lear (illustrator). Fifth Impression MCML. No dust jacket, decorated cloth covered boards have slight edgewear, small stain top edge, gift inscription in pencil front end page, pages lightly tanned, otherwise without flaw. 6 X 9" 288 pages, from 1947, 5th impression. Contents : Introduction - Edward Lear: Laureate of Nonsense by Holbrook Jackson; A Book of Nonsense (1846); Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871); More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc (1872); Laughable Lyrics, A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, Etc (1877); Nonsense Songs and Stories (1895). All delightfully illustrated by Edward Lear.

Hardback. Condition: Good. DJ; Price clipped; Heavy. DJ torn on spine. 288 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lear, Edward. (illustrator). First Edition. xxix, 288pp, bw ills. Decorative boards in jacket. Several very small chips to jacket, minor foxing to endpapers, prev owner name on front free endpaper. Published to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Lear's Book of Nonsense, this volume collects all of Lear's nonsense books in one book including A Book of Nonsense (1846); Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871); More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany etc (1872); Laughable Lyrics, A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, etc (1877) and Nonsense Songs and Stories (1895). Size: 8vo.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Faber & Faber Edition. Hardcover. The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear. Two previous owner names to inside cover, one crossed out. Slight foxing to end inside covers. This collection of the Nonsense of Edward Lear forms a complete reproduction of the four volumes of nonsense published during the author's lifetime, together with a few hitherto unpublished pieces included in the selection called Nonsense Songs and Stories, edited by Sir Edward Strachey, in 1895. In this collectiin there appearwed for the first time the characteristic self-portrait in verse reproduced in the present volume. Illustrations throughout. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

First Edition thus. Pictorial cover design by Barnett Freedman Fine copy in very slightly worn dust-wrapper.