Ralph Lavers (8 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Ralph Lavers (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback Maroon cloth White titles and decoration vi + 116 pp. Illustrated with 8 clour plates and many black and white illustrations Good condition. Corners rubbed Original gift inscription on insdie cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 3rd Printing. Hardcover with dustjacket, "Eager young archaeologists explore the buried secrets of Egypt's past," the former owner's name is present on the first blank page, and mild tanning is present on the first and last blank end-paper, the binding is clean, tight and attractive and the contents are fine, the jacket has moderate scuffing on the rear panel and a 3/4-inch deep edge-chip at top of spine, also a few other tiny areas of wear, the jacket is also clean and quite presentable, the original price (3.50) is present and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Ralph Lavers(Jacket Design) (illustrator). First Edition. So Moses was Born by Joan Grant (First Edition) A firm copy with a touch of fade to the spine top and bottom at the very edge. A bright jacket with rubbing to the extremities. Not price-clipped. Clear protective cover. First printing. First published in 1952, stated. Original blue cloth, spine lettered and stamped gilt. The seventh "Far Memory" novel. BOOK.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ralph Lavers (illustrator). Condition Notes: Matt paper dust wrapper has insignificant edgewear and is a touch faded with heavier toning to the spine, loss to the spine ends and some further nicks and creases. Previous owners' name to the first blank. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over red boards with yellow titles to the spine & upper board; Measures 8¾" x 5½" (0.7 kg); pp 115; Includes: Line drawings; Colour plates (8 including the frontispiece); Black & white plates; || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #198937 ||.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original cream cloth, spine lettered in red. Bumped. Edges toned, else, clean and bright, esp. for the war economy paper. In the original buff typographical dust jacket, printed in orange and navy with illustrations by Ralph Lavers: joints delicate, spine sunned, toned, chipped and nicked, losses to spine ends. Very good/ fair A robust copy of Grant's 1945 historical novel, like her others, apparently drawn from memories of her numerous past lives, and whose story belongs "to a much earlier epoch than is covered by the recorded history of the North American Indians". Joan Grant (1907-1989) was an English historical novelist and reincarnationist: "a hippy avant la lettre" (Armitstead, 2007). Claire Armitstead (2007) 'Mind Over Matter', The Guardian.

8vo. pp 115. Original publisher's burgundy cloth, illustrated and lettered white at the spine and front cover. Illustrated in colour and b/w throughout with colour frontispiece. Slight marking to cloth, otherwise sound, close very good with clean text and plates.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Paperback copy with stapled spine, no dustjacket as issued. 31pp. B/w illustrations throughout (both full page and within text). Not library copy, no inscriptions. (37/2).

2nd edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 115pp., col. frontis., col. pls., illusts., With 8 fine coloured plates by Ralph Lavers. Dust jacket chipped at edges with minor loss o/w very nice copy.