Lewis Baumer, Signed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lewis Baumer (illustrator). Limited Edition. Limited edition of 350 copies signed by the artist, this copy is No 142. 4to xviii+ pp 483, collated and complete with 20 tipped-in coloured plates engraved and printed by Henry Stone & Son ltd with descriptive tissue guards. Hardcover issued without dust jacket, bound in full vellum with gilt titles to spine and front board and illustrated colour portrait to front board. Binding in very good condition with some marking to vellum and sadly missing ribbon ties. Inside all rough cut pages with top edge gilt in very good condition with a little toning and the odd mark. Thackery's famous Vanity Fair "a novel without a hero" follows the notorious Becky Sharp as she attempts to infiltrate stuffy Victorian society. Illustrated with great humour by Lewis Baumer, celebrated artist and cartoonist who worked for over 50 years for Punch magazine. A lovely copy signed by the artist. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Baumer, Lewis (illustrator). Thackeray, W. M. Vanity Fair Hodder and Stoughton 1913 (N.D.) bound in Vellum, a limited edition of 350 signed by the artist Lewis Baumer. Pp 483. All illustrations in place beneath tissues. Faults - areas of vellum on front board stained tan in places. Faint water stain top pages . Original roundel illus on front board missing. Ribbon ties missing. On two pages edges (rough cut) a small black ink mark. From the library of Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle (although not inscribed to that effect). Scan on request. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Baumer, Lewis (illustrator). First Edition. Folded letter, SIGNED by the author (ALS) and dated May 28, 1922, is loose in the book. 227 pages plus advertising. Pages are in very good, clean condition; fore-edge yellowed, top edge gilt. 12 illustrations, inclufing the frontispiece. Brown textured cloth with gilt titles. Light wear at head/tail of spine and corners. Spine a little faded. Binding tight. VG. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hard. Condition: Good. Lewis Baumer. (illustrator). Limited Edition. Good+. Publishers cream mock-vellum, with gilt lettering and an oval portrait of Becky Sharp in a decorative gilt cartouche. Very minor marking to covers. Silk tie detached and missing half its length, but easily replaced. Illustrated endpapers, foxed as is fly-leaf. All other pages bright and clean. Illustrations very bright. Top edge gilt. Uncut pages. Two of the contents pages are unopened. 483pp. 20 tipped in colour plates by Lewis Baumer. LIMITED EDITION of 350 signed and numbered by the artist, of which this is no. 168. Signed by Illustrator(s).

SIGNED by Baumer on the colophon. 4to. 483 pp. (many pages uncut). 20 tipped in color plates with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's full vellum binding with gilt illustration & lettering to front cover & spine; oval color plate affixed to front; deckled page edges; color illustrated endpapers. Boards are slightly bowed; lacking ribbon ties; some scuffing to covers; upper front hinge just starting; a very good copy; still a lovely binding. Vanity Fair follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars. It is sometimes considered the "principal founder" of the Victorian domestic novel. The story is framed as a puppet play, and the narrator, despite being an authorial voice, is somewhat unreliable. The serial was a popular and critical success; the novel is now considered a classic and has inspired several audio, film, and television adaptations. - wiki. Deluxe Edition Limited to 350 copies of which this is Number 164 SIGNED by Baumer.