Mark Kemp Venables (4 results)

Hb. Condition: VG. None. First Limited & Numbered Edition. First Limited & Numbered Edition Number 93 of 100 copies.Hand-set in graceful Caslon-type. Illustrations, cut by himself on lino blocks , and printed from inside his 110-year old house. Finally stitched and bound the volume so well that it opens flat. The book took eight years, from handsetting and machining. First half of the book describes Venables war service. Second part describes his family life on a New Zealand farm. Clean burnt orange cloth on boards with black title and illustration of a soldier on front of cover. Soft touch of a lttle rubbing to spines frontside edge. Eps: illustrated from lino block woodcuts. Clean contents. Binding is VG+ albeit only slightly cocked. Landscape. 77p. Mark K. Venables (illustrator). Limited Edition.…

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by Author to front end page. Written for the Jubilee of Seddon Memorial Tech (later Auckland Technical Institute). Includes 10 year historory of Venables Mout St Johns Press. Venables served in the Medical Corps of the New Zealand Army in the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia in WWII. During this time he produced many watercolours of soldiers, aircraft, landing craft and the paraphernalia of war. He exhibited in the 1952 Exhibition of Official War Paintings by New Zealand Artists. CONDITION Stapled wraps, 36 pages with illus Venables through out, a little bumped to cnrs and age discoloured to covers otherwise nice copy internally Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 159 pp., illustrations. spine is skewed, inscribed by author on 1st blank page, limited edition number 52 of 150. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. Numbered Signed. Limited Edition of No. 123 of 150 Signed by Author to half title. Memoriers of his travels through the Museums and Galleries of Europe with his winnings of the Keith Holyoak award 1971. Venables served in the Medical Corps of the New Zealand Army in the Solomon Islands and New Caledonia in WWII. During this time he produced many watercolours of soldiers, aircraft, landing craft and the paraphernalia of war. He exhibited in the 1952 Exhibition of Official War Paintings by New Zealand Artists. CONDITION End pages and cover are illustrated by linocuts. pp 189 with 49 hand printed illus including some colout illus and coloured lino cuts. Nice crisp copy with hand printed Navy Leatherette bds, small nick to head of front eps near spine, DJ hand printed in archival cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author.…