Philip Aver (13 results)

card cover>. Condition: Fine. Philip Van Aver (illustrator). First Edition. 24p. string bound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Philip Van Aver(Jacket Art) (illustrator). First Edition. McAuslan in the Rough by George MacDonald Fraser (First US Edition) A firm copy. Moderate sun tanning to edges. Crease to upper front cover. Pictorial dust jacket. Minor sun tanning to spine. Minor edgewear. In clear, protective cover. Not price-clipped. Stated First American Edition. BOOK.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Philip Van Aver (illustrator). One of 750 hand-bound first editions. Fine condition, in Mylar.

Condition: Very Good. First edition, 8vo.,pp. unpaginated, plain paperback, with pictorial dust-jacket, b/w frontispiece; dust-jacket toned to spine and extremities, lightly chipped to head of spine, a very good copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Philip Van Aver (illustrator). 1st Edition. (18 pages), very good condition in paper covers, covers browned and slightly creased, one of an edition of 750 copies. Book inscribed by the author to Charles Tomlinson in 1983 with his inscription on the half -title page ("For Charles/from/Jonathan/1983"). Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Philip Van Aver (illustrator). 1st Edition. 4pp folded white card printed black on white (measures 225mm x 290mm). A Blue Tunnel Publication. Undated but assume mid-1970's. Contains a 4-line poem by John Lewis and a display of 24 small b/w illustrations by Philip Van Aver depicting New York City. In fine condition. Now protected in a clear archival envelope with a card backing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Philip Van Aver (illustrator). First Edition. One of 300 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem on hand-made paper in the summer of 1970. Bound in ivory/tan burlap cloth with spine title label and pictorial upper-cover label, 4to, unpag. Illustrated by Philip Van Aver. A lovely fine press edition from the Grabhorn-Hoyem press. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

First Edition. First edition thus. Each brief Mother Goose rhyme is accompanied by a small but elaborately detailed illustration by Van Aver. Colophon states 300 copies but Harlan's Grabhorn-Hoyem bibliography notes there were only 200 copies and that of those only "a few" were bound in blue decorated boards. This copy is one of those few in blue but without the printed spine labels as called for by Harlan. 4to 1/4 medium-blue cloth with light-blue paper boards printed in darker blue. Cloth at spine slightly toned otherwise near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Philip Van Aver (illustrator). Limited to 300cc. Illustrated by Philip Van Aver.

First Edition. MOTHER GOOSE NURSERY RHYMES, Grabhorn-Hoyem, 1970, first edition, a fine copy with untrimmed fore edge and b.p.e.'s. The colophon page states a limited edition of 300 copies but the Harlan bibliography of Grabhorn-Hoyem lists only 200 copies. That bibliography further states that only "A few copies [were] bound in blue decorated boards, blue cloth back, title in blue on front cover and in blue on blue label on spine." This is one of those copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. Van Aver, Philip (illustrator). First and Limited Edition. First edition in book form, one of 205 copies, quarto size, 22pp., signed by Brother Antoninus, with prospectus. A heart-wrenchingly beautiful paean by one famous poet, Brother Antoninus (William Everson, 1912-1994), to another, John Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) upon his death. "The great tongue is dried. / The teeth that bit to the bitterness / Are sheathed in truth. / For the poet is dead." For those who may not know, the Auerhaun Press was founded by Dave Haselwood, who relates its beginnings in the opening pages of the "Auerhahn Press Bibliography" thus: "During the Summer of 1958 I drifted around San Francisco talking endlessly with painters such as Robert LaVigne and Jesse Sharpe & poets Lamantia, McClure, Wieners and reading all the live poetry & prose I could get my hands on. It was at this time that it occurred to me that the press could mean a great many things, some personal, some in a larger context: - I had reached the point where complete physical involvement in something important to me was absolutely necessary. The press could fill that requirement" (pp. 5-6). Andrew Hoyem joined the Press and became a partner; his meticulous attention to detail and skill at design and layout are evident here, which would become hallmarks of his work at the Arion Press. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in quarter purple leather over ivory paper-covered boards, white paper spine label with gilt lettering, title page in purple and black, the introduction ("Note") and poem both with a two-line purple initial capital, each stanza of the poem interspersed with a small purple circle, signed by Brother Antoninus on the blank following the last page of the text; binding quarto size (10 3/4" by 8 1/8"), unpaginated with twelve leaves; one of 205 copies, unnumbered. The dust wrapper of plain white, the prospectus a single sheet folded once to four pages, an illustration on the front page in purple by Philip Van Aver, text on the third page with purple initial capitals, the second and final pages blank, measuring 8 9/16" by 5 1/2" when closed. ___CONDITION: Volume near fine and could likely be deemed fine, the boards clean other than light offsetting where the paper meets the leather and a tiny speck at the fore-edge bottom corner of the front board, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some light offsetting to the paste-down endpapers and a few very small spots of foxing to the same, else fine. The dust wrapper a bit better than very good, mostly clean other than a few light, stray marks, light edgewear mostly at the head and tail, but with a fair amount of sunning to the spine and back panel; the prospectus fine, clean, utterly without wear or soil. ___CITATION: Auerhahn Press bibliography, no. 24; Bartlett and Campo, no. A20. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note the following: (i) additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs, please inquire for details; and (ii) any taxes, duty, or tariffs charged by your country will, of necessity, be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

21 illustrations by Philip Van Aver. One of 300 copies. Printed in Goudy Open type on English handmade paper. Quarto., original full linen binding with printed paper label on spine andupper cover. A very good, fresh copy. Most of the copies were bound differently with the title and illustration on a white label pasted on. In 1966 Edwin Grabhorn had ceased printing due to ill health and Robert, with his new young partner Andrew Hoyem, started a new Press in Commercial Street, San Francisco.

Pp. [46], printed on rectos only, illustrated; demy 4to; full natural burlap, with printed paper title labels on spine and upper board; uncut; Grabhorn-Hoyem, San Francisco, 1970. Edition limited to 300 copies.