Peter Shepheard (32 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by SHEPHEARD, PETER drawing.Photos,map (illustrator). 1st Edition. GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S3.00) DUST JACKET, tasteful personal bookplate (Quail bird)"Mary C.J.Goni".else , solid, bright dj.Back cover of JUST GOOD book has old 4x2" lightening stain to dark blue hard covers. ; SILVER spine titles on BLUE cloth hard covers.DJ Back panel shows 4x5" photo of author & biog. ; 156ps pages; . Life of birds native to PACIFIC OCEAN .INDEXED, APPENDIX.BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Tuesday, May 26 (holiday SALE item)* 135 pp., Hardcover, endpapers and pastedowns age-toned else text clean & binding tight (lacks dust jacket). - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peter Shepheard (illustrator). 1st Edition. Decorated stiff card covers with repeat design to the clipped dust-wrapper. In excellent condition. A smart copy.

Condition: Good. 1958. Third Impression. 144 pages. White dust jacket with black lettering over yellow cloth. B&W illustrations and photographs throughout. Clean pages. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Minor tanning to spine and board edges. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine and edges, with staining and soiling to DJ.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gift inscription inside, otherwise unmarked. Light wear to jacket edges. Top edge lightly spotted. A very good, clean and bright copy.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN:0356026477.

Condition: New.

Peter Shepheard (illustrator). Barclay-Smith, Phyllis. A book of ducks / with plates by Peter Shepheard. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd., 1951. The King Penguin Books ; 58. First edition. Hardback, VG, in unclipped dustjacket, a little grubby in places, sunned to spine with light damage to head of spine. Illustrated boards replicating the dustjacket design. Binding strong. 34pp. + unpaginated colour plates; b/w illustrations. Contents clean and bright. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. We do not use AI and all images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Book is in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Shepheard, Peter (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp xv, 99. Frontis, map, plates ans drawings. Original cloth. Unclipped d/w. Bookplate to front paste-down endpaper. With a holograph letter of 26 lines, on 2 sheets, signed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peter Shepheard (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very Good In A Like Jacket Pp 99 Frontis Illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1954 Second impression of the 1953 first edition. Cream hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers and some foxing to endpapers and top edge of textblock. After the introduction, there is some light water damage to top inner corners of pages throughout (see image for an example). Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear, light soiling, a small chip missing to base of front cover of jacket, and a couple of small tears. The inside of the jacket has some watermarks corresponding to the light water damage on the top inner corners of the pages). 144pp. 291 b/w photographic illustrations. This is a truly inspirational book for anyone interested in modern garden design; examples by some of the best 20th century international landscape architects are included, such as C.Th.Sorensen (Denmark), Richard Neutra (USA) and Roberto Burle Marx (Brazil). Numerous plans are included and whenever possible details are given of the material used in the construction of pathes, walls, terraces etc. and the names of the plants which are grown. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Cream Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 144 pages, b/w illustrations, 291 plates. Architects/ Designers include Asplund & Lewerentz, Roberto Burle Marx, Thomas Church, Karl Koch, Richard Neutra, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Christopher Tunnard, Tayler & Green, Ralph Erskine, Sven Markelius, etc. Architect Sam Scorer's copy, with his signature to front endpaper. Some wear, soiling, bumping to covers, contents fine, edgewear, soiling, some losses to unclipped dustjacket. [751] Size: 290mm. x 225mm.

Illustrated boards. Condition: Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Peter Shepheard (illustrator). First Edition. A King Penguin hardback book with illustrated boards and matching dust-jacket. 34 pages and 16 coloured plates. Unclipped dust-jacket is worn on spine with some repair to extremities. Endpapers darkened.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good DJ. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Includes 16 full page color plates (each of a different species of duck). Increasingly hard to find in presentable condition. Ownership signature at the ffep, hint of sun at spine, else tight, bright, and unmarred. DJ priceclipped, light sun at the spine and foredge, else bright and clean. Color pictorial paper boards. 12mo. 34pp plus np plate pages. Illus. (color and b/w plates).

Boards in d.j. Illus. Peter Shepheard (illustrator). Octavo, illustrated boards, illustrated dustjacket, 16 colour plates, 31 pages of text plus the plates. Very good condition in like (price-clipped) dustjacket. An attractive King Penguin book, illustrated to the boards and dustjacket with a repeated pattern of owls. The colour plates are by Peter Shepheard (1913 - 2002), later Sir Peter Shepheard, the British artist, architect and landscape architect.

Condition: Good. 1953. First Published. 144 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over yellow cloth. Black and white illustrations and photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1955 1st edition. King Penguin number 74. Illustrated paper covered boards, unclipped dustjacket with same design. 16 colour plates. Condition: Very good book in very good dj. Light edgewear. Pencil inscription to ffep. Pages and plates clean and bright. Dj with minimal foxing to title square. In removable plastic sleeve. Size: 7.5x5in / 19x13cm. 31pp. Weight: 150g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 144 pp. Illustrated generously with b/w photographs and plans. Marking to jacket and a little chipping to its extremities. Gift inscription. On the design, planning and planting of the 'modern' garden, drawing on examples from around the world. A VG first edition copy in its dustjacket. 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Description and photos on demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Peter Shepheard (illustrator). 1955. Includes hand-signed duplicate title page by illustrator Peter Shepheard. Internally clean and very presentable throughout, with some minor bumps at edges but no significant creases or marks. Covers are lightly rubbed around outer edges, more significant rubbing at bottom corners from general handling and storage but still attractive. Dust jacket is a little used with a few small nicks at the corners repaired and reinforced with conservation tape, fitted with a protective plastic sleeve. Why do most sellers not describe their actual item? Buy with confidence, support a genuine Independent Bricks & Mortar Real Bookshop and help to preserve our High Streets as interesting places to shop. We are Maynard & Bradley CAMBO & PBFA (now lapsed) members here in Leicester City Centre, UK Size: 125 x 185 mm. 45. Item Type: Book. Illustrator: Peter Shepheard. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Animals & Birds; Britain/UK; 1950s; Inventory No: 53854.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Fabulous vintage garden design book in good condition with dust jacket. Architects/ Designers include Asplund & Lewerentz, Roberto Burle Marx, Thomas Church, Karl Koch, Richard Neutra, Brenda Colvin, Geoffrey Jellicoe, Christopher Tunnard, Tayler & Green, Ralph Erskine, Sven Markelius, etc.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Various [inc. Rose Elleby; Clarke Hutton; Peter Shepheard] (illustrator). Fourteen volumes within the charming King Penguin book series, small beautifully illustrated guides to a variety of topics for both children and adults alike. Fourteen volumes of the King Penguin educational series of books published by Penguin. Edited by Elizabeth Senior until 1945, followed by Nikolaus Pevsner thereafter. Published between 1943-1953, with the series running from 1939-1959. First editions included.In the publisher's original pictorial paper boards, with Crown and Garden Birds in the original unclipped dust wrappers, and Mexico and Ducks in the original clipped dust wrappers.Originally inspired by the German Insel-Verlag books published before the war showing small illustrated works for special projects, Penguin made their own series in Britain, leading to a popular and charming series that introduce subjects to both children and adults alike.- Edible Fungi, written by John Ramsbottom, with colour plates by Rose Ellenby. Contains in-text illustrations and sixteen colour plates of different types of fungi to try. Collated complete. (1943).- The Bayeux Tapestry, written by Eric Maclagan, with a frontispiece map of the English Channel. Contains in-text illustrations and eight colour plates of the first scenes from the tapesty, and ten monochrome plates from the final scenes of the tapestry. Collated complete. (1943).- Fashions and Fashion Plates: 1800-1900, by James Laver. Contains sixteen colour plates of various examples of late Georgian and Victorian fashion. Collated complete. (1943).- Fishes of Britain's River and Lakes, by J.R. Norman. Contains in-text illustrations, and sixteen colour plates of different types of fish to the rear of the book. Collated complete. (1943).- Popular English Art, written by Noel Carrington and illustrated by Clarke Hutton. Contains thirty-two plates, including sixteen in lovely watercolour. Collated complete. (1945).- Poisonous Fungi, written by John Ramsbottom, with colour plates by Rose Ellenby. Contains in-text illustrations and sixteen colour plates of different types of fungi to avoid. Collated complete. (1945).- Heraldry in England, written by Anthony Wagner. Contains in-text illustrations and sixteen colour plates of different various coats of arms. Collated complete. (1946).- Flowers of Marsh and Stream, written by Iola A. Williams. Contains in-text illustrations, and sixteen colour plates of different flowers to the rear of the book. Collated complete. (1946).- A Book of English Clocks, written by R.W. Symonds. Contains in-text illustrations and seventy-two plates on various different clocks produced in England. Collated complete. (1947).- Unknown Westminster Abbey, written by Lawrence E. Tanner, with photographs by R.P. Howgrave-Graham. Contains sixty-four monochrome photographic plates of various features of the Abbey. Collated complete (1948).- The Crown Jewels, written by Oliver Warner, with colour plates by Paxton Chadwick. Contains sixteen colour plates on the different regalia within the Crown Jewels. Collated complete. (1951).- A Book of Ducks, written by Phylis Barclay-Smith, with illustrated plates by Peter Shepheard. Contains in-text illustrations and sixteen illustrated plates of different ducks to the rear of the book. Collated complete. (1951).- Garden Birds, written by Phylis Barclay-Smith. A 1952 reprint first published in 1945. Contains in-text illustrations, and twenty colour plates of different birds found across British gardens. Collated complete. (1952).- Magic Books from Mexico, with an introduction and notes on the plates by C.A. Burland. Contains in-text illustrations and colour plates depicting scenes from Mesoamerican books. Collated complete. (1953). In the publisher's original pictorial paper boards, with Crown and Garden Birds in the original unclipped dust wrappers, and Mexico and Ducks in the original clipped dust wrappers. Externally, smart, with the odd small mark to boards, very light to Ducks, Birds, Crown, Tapestry, Poisonous and Flowers. Slight fading to spines, a little heavier to Edible, and to boards of Tapsestry, Crown, Clocks, Abbey, Edible, Fishes, Fasion, and a little heavier to extremities of Heraldry and English Art. Signs of edgewear, and slight rubbing to joints of Poisonour and Flowers, a little heavier to Fish, Bayeaux, Clocks and Fashion, with slight rubbing to paper pictorial decoration at joints. Wear to spine labels of Art, Fishes, and Tapestry. Dust wrappers are generally bright and clean, with slight fading to wrapper and wrapper spines, and a couple of small marks to Crown and Mexico. Wrapper has failed to Birds, with significant loss to wrapper spine. Small chips to head and tail of wrapper spine of Crown and Ducks. End papers are bright and clean, with the odd small mark. Slight offsetting to end paper hinges of Ducks, a grazed spotted mark to front pastedown of Clocks, and minor offsetting and spotting to end paper hinges of Crown. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free end papers of Crown, Abbey, Edible, Poisonous, Mexico, and Fashion. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. book.