Michael Holroyd Intro (12 results)

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Erte (illustrator). 1st Edition. VG++, Shelfwear, mild soiling/VG, Price-clipped, edgewear, tears, abrasion, foxing, browning. 'An Entertainment'. With 17 two-colour illustrations. Expanded condition report/photo on request.

Octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Ian Ribbons (illustrator). pp. 301. 8vo. Decorated beige cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Pencilling to margins, light shelfwear; very good- in good slipcase showing some discolouration and joints are just beginning to split at edges.

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently, they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG+) light foxing to page edges; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Square 4to in vibrant pink faux cloth, gilt lettering to spine, and gilt embossed decoration to front cover, 47pp, illustrations by Erte throughout . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW very clean, bright and tight copy (hint of tanning to leaves) in a near FINE complete Dust Jacket (small and barely noticeable surface scuff to front panel, looks fine in its removable transparent protector) ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs, Illustrated books etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Red/gilt hardback cloth cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 310mm x 210mm (12" x 8"). ix, 1054pp; viii. Volume I: A-J; Volume II: K-Z. The Register covers all publicly- available collections in the British Isles. It includes letters as well as manuscripts and gives summary descriptions. The appendix in volume II includes the full addresses of Institutions. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas.

Hardcover. Small 4to. pp 48. Original publisher's pink cloth, lettered gilt on spine and front cover (all edges gilt). Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Edition of 250 copies, this being no. 6. Attractive bookplate of the film director, Bryan Forbes on the front pastedown. Fine in Very good plus slip-case.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Erte (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this entertaining story composed of letters between two curious teenage girls. The first edition, first impression of this work.With the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.With charming illustrations by Erte, a Russian-born French artist and designer in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume and set design.This work contains letters between country girl Esmerelda and London resident Ermyntrude as they swap stories of forbidden mysteries with humorous codes for the unmentionables.Written by Lytton Strachey, an English writer and critic and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. In the original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with minor bumping to the spine head and tail. Dust wrapper is sunned, with a moderate-sized closed tear to the flyleaf and edge wear. A couple marks to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with a contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Near Fine. book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). A very smart set of four first edition volumes on notable figures Lytton Strachey, Gertrude Bell, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf. A four volume set of works on notable figures.In the original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers.Comprising of:(1971) Lytton Strachey by Himself: A Self-PortraitEdited with an introduction by Michael Holroyd. The first edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece. The diary of Lytton Strachey, an English writer and critic who was a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and the author of Eminent Victorians. He established a new form of biography in whichpsychologicalinsight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.(1978) Gertrude BellBy H.V.F. Gertrude Bell. The first edition. Illustrated with 8 double sided plates and in text illustrations. A work on Gertrude Bell, an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, andarchaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping theMiddle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as anArabistdue to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.(1992) Vita and Harold: The Letters of Sackville-West and Harold NicolsonEdited by Nigel Nicolson. The first edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 double sided plates. Vita Sackville-West was a prolific author and garden designer, whilst Harold Nicolson was a British politician, writer, broadcaster and gardener. The two were married.(1994) Virginia WoolfBy James King. The first edition, first impression. Illustrated with 8 double sided plates. A work on Virginia Woolf, an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-centurymodernistauthors. She helped to pioneer the use ofstream of consciousnessnarration as a literary device. In publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent. Minor shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrappers are very smart, with just slight shelf wear to edges. Mark to spine of 'Lytton Strachey' wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.