Language: English
Published by Duckworth, 1949
Seller: A.O'Neill, Basingstoke, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 11.06
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edward Lear (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very good book, dw has tear (untidy repair) Illustrated see photos.
Published by Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 3 Henrietta Street, London First Edition Thus . 1949., 1949
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
US$ 19.35
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original printed paper covered boards, navy cloth spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6ĵ''. Contains 32 pp with 12 splendid full-page colour illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to the boards and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Small colour book plate opposite the title page with the printed name 'William C. Pelster' illustrating a Yellow-naped amazon parrot drawn for Mr Pelster by William T. Cooper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ORNITHOLOGY.
Published by Duckworth & Co. Ltd., London, 1949
First Edition
US$ 34.55
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 32pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Free endpapers lightly browned. A very good copy in lightly spotted, rubbed and creased price-clipped dust wrapper. Brian Reade's definitive essay on Lear's early efforts as a bird illustrator, accompanied by twelve coloured lithographs (selected from the original folio of forty-two lithographs, published at the artists' own expense in 1932).
Language: English
Published by Pion Limited, London, 1978
ISBN 10: 0850860741 ISBN 13: 9780850860740
Seller: The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint edition of the 1832 publication, including a 15 page essay by Brian Reade on the illustrations as an insert. (10) pp. + 42 color plates on heavy paper, elephant folio, 1/2 morocco, cloth, gilt -stamped raised bands, limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is #428. Overall good to very good condition. Shipping outside the United States may incur higher shipping charges. Inventory #25419-2.
Seller: Prior Books Ltd, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
US$ 621.85
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Number 420 of just 500 such copies; publisher's dark red half Morocco binding, gilt titles to spine and top edge gilt, in better than very good shape, firm and square with strong joints, no cracks, no defects, just mildly rubbed. Contents crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Includes 42 full colour parrot plates and a loosely inserted booklet by Brian Reade: 'An Essay on Edward Lear's Illustrations'. Size: Folio (545mm x 360mm). Thus a very tidy and presentable book.