Lewis Mare (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Light blue cloth, lettered/illus. in red. 1st ptg.: Nov. 1939. Prefatory note by Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI and later known as "the Queen Mother" (parents of Elizabeth II), with contributions by 50 British authors and artists in aid of the Lord Mayor of London's Fund for the Red Cross and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Published on the eve of, and mostly occasioned by, British involvement in WW2. 255 pp., illus. Cover cloth faded somewhat unevenly,tanned spine panel and text block edges. Firm binding, unmarked interior. Top corner of title page neatly clipped (not affecting lettering), perhaps to remove a gift inscription, otherwise complete and intact, lacking dust jacket. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Richard Powers (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition/printing. Book is in Very Good condition (some rippling tops of pages and one pencil mark). No dust jacket as issued (school literature text book). Richard Powers interior art!

Garenloos. Condition: Lichte gebruikssporen. Thijs Schaap en M.L (illustrator). 75 pp. Z/w illustraties. Kaft plaatselijk verschoten (vooral langs de rugkant). Ezelsoortjes voorkant kaft rechts onder en boven.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Vol. III, No. 1. Tall octavo. 184pp. Printed blue wrappers. Last two leaves detached from textblock (but present), sunning and a thin strip of paper remnants on cover, toned spine with a tear at the foot, good only. Contributions from: Wyndham Lewis, E. Martindale, Norman Douglas, Henry James, Walter de la Mare, C.E. Montague, and more.

Pictorial Card. Condition: Very Good Contents Near Fine. No Jacket. Photo's Supplied By Duchess of Bedford,Lord Delamare,The Hon Walter Rothchild,Major Nott,Ottomar Anschutz,Lewis Medland,Carl HagenbeckCharles Reid & Dr R.W. Shuffeldt (illustrator). 1900/1901 Part X. This is Part X from the Original Series Published Complete in 24 Fortnightly Parts in 1900/1901.The set Includes A Coloured Plate with Every Part.Each Part Contains a Concise Description of the Beasts , Birds , Fishes , Reptiles , Insects etc with Authentic Anecdotes.Please Email for further details Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition Anthology of 45 poets selected of work representative of the poetic impulse at 1952. Edited biy Clifford Dyment, Roy Fuller and Montagu Slater. Very Good: end papers tanned. Bookplate of well known collector Rolland Comstock on front pastedown. Former owner signature on front endpaper. Very Good dust jacket tanned at edges and small stains along top edge of back cover. Protected in mylar cover. Ships same or next business day. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 167 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 217-260; xv-xxvi. Publisher's card wraps printed in red and black, price of one shilling net to upper. Some spotting to edges and covers, staples rusted, lightly handled. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very nice book, tight and square with bright covers and spine, clean unmarked interior. Sturdy binding. The unclipped jacket is bright, some edge wear and mildly faded spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The building, construction, and sailing of model racing yachts. Discusses racing classes. Profusely illustrated with boat plans (several fold-out plans), diagrams, charts, photographs.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 154 pages. Edmund Blunden "The Ivy Bush" / Laurie Lee "First Love" / Stevie Smith "Touch And Go" / John strachey "A Bath With The Colonel" / Edwin Muir "'Royal Man'" / Roy Fuller "Winter Night" / Walter de la Mare 2 poems / Osbert Sitwell "A Short Character Of Walter Richard Sickert" / Logan Pearsall Smith "Tavistock Square" / Elizabeth Bowen "Notes On Writing A Novel" (U.P.).

68pp. 8vo. Original cloth in slightly chipped dustwrapper. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Gertrude Elliott (illustrator). 68 pp. NO number line or printing indicated, but ' 1947, 1949 ' cited on CP: presumed First Edition, First Printing; ' J195195 ' printed at lower left inside front cover [which also appears on later editions with later printing identifications] and ' 463: 195 [underlined]' at top right front cover corner; endpapers illustrated with multifarious animals. NO dust jacket. 1" piece of cellophane surface missing in gutter front cover at 3 3/8" down from top right spine edge, with 1/8" hole at middle of it (NO impact on binding (7 sites of sewn threads along inside front cover hinge); nugatory cellophane 1" tear on rear cover gutter at 3" down from top left spine corner (NOW reglued so as to be virtually undetectable; small rubbing wear at cover and spine corners; text lightly age-toned around perimeters and on text block edges: describes worse than it is, but there you have it: Strong binding (stretched only a bit at first few pages front and back, else tight); corners still sharp (NO bumps or curls); NO previous owner names; NOT ex-Library. Clean text. Solid copy. Arguably, Holiday or Birthday Gift-Giving Quality, especially, given that the book is more than 60 years-old or near 75 years-old. The way to read Classic Children's Poetry from many well-known Children's Poets.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None (as issued). Delamare, David (illustrator). 1st Edition. SIGNED by Publisher Wendy Ice, wife and co-collaborator of the ARTIST, David Delamare, who died prior to publication. One of the most extraordinary illustrated editions of Alice ever produced (and I'm a collector of such editions, with over one hundred in my possession, so my judgment is based in honest assessment). 96 illustrations. The book is beautiful, absolutely new and unread, pristine. In a matching illustrated slipcase. With ninety-six illustrations. Olive green cloth with a circular illustrated paper label on the front board. Gilt stamped lettering on spine and front board. Red satin page marker. 133pp. Quarto [29.5 cm]. You'll feel as though you've received an Admit One pass to the Library of Alexandria or the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, once this treasured tome arrives at your door! NOTE: The upper edge of the slipcase has a rather unfortunate small bump. Signed By Contributors.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. David Delamare (illustrator). First edition thus. Deluxe Standard limited issue of the 150th anniversary edition. Signed in black ink on the title page by the widow of David Delamare, Wendy Ice, who was also publisher, editor, and designer. The book features 96 color illustrations. Thirty-four of the images by David Delamare are based upon traditional oil paintings. Sixty-two images are pencil drawings, later colored digitally by Delamare and Wendy Ice. The historically authentic text was carefully researched and discussed by scholar Selwyn H. Goodacre, Wendy Ice, and an international team of volunteer proofreaders. The innovative layout features at least one illustration on every page spread of the story and page breaks that are designed to facilitate reading aloud. 142 printed pages with 96 color illustrations on acid free paper. Bound in gray cloth with lettering and border stamped in gilt and with paper circular illustration of Alice pressed onto the front cover. A fine bright new copy within a fine example of the publisher's slipcase. Signed by Author(s).

FIRST EDITION. Limitation leaf blank, half title. Sewn as issued in orig. blue wrappers; a little dulled. A nice crisp copy. 67pp. Limited to 90 copies, of which 75 were offered for sale; this copy is out of series. A sharp and detailed appreciation of Carroll's work.

Pp. 68; demy 8vo; orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, the boards faintly soiled, edges and spine slightly faded and browned, also a trifle rubbed; fore and bottom edges uncut; Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1932. First trade edition thus. Lewis Carroll Handbook 509a. The text was originally published in 1930, as the last essay in The Eighteen-Eighties: Essays by Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature. Edited by Walter De La Mare.

1st edition. Small 4to. Unpaginated. Every page multi colouredwith coloured longhand text. Publisher's original blue paper coveredpictorial boards, white lettering on font & spine, white scrolling lines +rainbows + peacocks + ships design front & back. Dw repeats cover design, price clipped. White eps. Neat 3 line ink dedication on fep. Covers faint rubs top/bottom spine & corners. Dw 1cm loss top of spine, heavy rubs rear top corner, slight rubs bottom spine & front top corner. Contents slight browning eps, small mark rear ep else clean tight & unfoxed. Bright attractive copy. VG+/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. David Delamare (illustrator). SIGNED by Wendy Ice. 133pp. Quarto [29.5 cm]. Olive green cloth with a circular illustrated paper label on the front board. Gilt stamped lettering on spine and front board. Red satin pagemarker. In a matching illustrated slipcase. All enclosed in publisher's cardboard clamshell with an illustrated paper label on the front panel. With ninety-six illustrations. A labor of love initiated in 2008 and--after a series of setbacks--approved for binding by illustrator David Delamare on September 16th, 2016. Tragically, David passed away early in the morning of September 19th. In his absence, the book is signed by the publisher and co-collaborator, David's wife Wendy Ice, on the title page. First printing of 150th anniversary edition.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. David Delamare (illustrator). SIGNED. 133pp. Quarto [29.5 cm]. Olive green cloth with an illustrated paper label on the front board. Gilt stamped lettering on spine and front board. Red satin pagemarker. In an illustrated slipcase. All enclosed in publisher's cardboard clamshell. With ninety-six illustrations. A labor of love initiated in 2008 and--after a series of setbacks--approved for binding by illustrator David Delamare on September 16th, 2016. Tragically, David passed away early in the morning of September 19th. In his absence, the book is signed by the publisher and co-collaborator, David's wife Wendy Ice, on the title page. First printing of 150th anniversary edition.

FIRST EDITIONS, each with a full-page colour-printed illustration and a monochrome tailpiece by the respective artists, all but the Eliot with a title-page design also, each pp. [4], crown 8vo, original sewn wrappers of different colours, all in their original printed envelopes, these with some very light soiling and some very gentle fading, a couple with small tears to flaps, the booklets fine. The publisher's revival of its festive poetry series drew from a roster of poets and illustrators no less impressive than the first; Eliot, Campbell and de la Mare appear in both, as do David Jones and Edward Bawden.