Thacker Eric and Anthony Earnshaw (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Graphic novel, first trade edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), 160pp. Text illustrations. Original brown cloth spine, marbled boards, gilt titling to the spine, title label to the front board, acetate dustwrapper. Book and dust jacket in fine condition, no marks or inscriptions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First trade edition. Small quarto. Boards slightly bowed, light foxing on the endleaves, and one corner with a tiny split, very good or better, in a very good clear acetate dust jacket, with a few cracks along the edges, and a small publishers sticker on the front fly. A surrealist graphic novel.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed copy. A famous British surrealist book. The book is widely celebrated for its highly stylized text and elaborate, psychedelic illustrations. Blurring the lines between an aphoristic novel, a fantasy epic, and a graphic artwork, it won the prestigious Francis Williams Award for Illustration in 1972.One of the weirdest titles we have ever seen. Full of obscure line illustrations, usually featuring a dog's head, and the word Musrum. Case bound in quarter buckram and Japanese wood veneer paper.Text block printed on pure white Mellotex cartridge.This copy is number 19 out of 250 of the special limited edition.The upper board has a spot to the top edge (6mm) and light patchy sunning. Patc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New York, 1968. First edition, first printing. 4to. Cloth, dj. 159 p. ; illus., maps ; 26 cm. Binding firm, leaves bright. Gentle warp, with some chipping, to dj at extremities. Musrum concerns the demigod by that name, king of Intersol, and the hunt spanning the musroid cosmos for his rival, Weedking. Earnshaw was a British surrealist painter who met Thacker, a Methodist minister, in the 1940's. Their collaboration also yielded a sequel, Wintersol, exposing the depredations of Father Christmas.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. GP-556. Illustrated. Stated first printing. Near fine in a very good (short closed edge tear on rear panel, a bit of light foxing on verso) dust jacket.; 160 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Folio. Measuring approximately 10½" x 13¾". Cloth and papercovered boards with printed cover label and spine gilt. Boards with some sunning and spotting on the edges, corners and a couple of small areas on the board edges just worn through, very good, possibly lacking a dust jacket. The text is fine. Copy 419 of 500 copies printed. A surrealist graphic novel. …

1ST EDITION. A FINE HARDBACK COPY WITH BROWN SPINE AND GREEN BOARDS. SIGNED AND DATE BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST.