Artists Models, Signed (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small quarto; viii, 204pp. Hardcover. Bound in full purple cloth. Crown bumped, covers sun-faded at spine and boards, corners a bit worn, top hinge cracked. An auction listing/clipping is pasted to front paste-down. Below it a previous owner's bookplate, signed by Bulliet. Includes 33 illustrations, black and white reproductions of various artists and their subjects. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Substantial blue wrappers with cover label, slender 8vo., 22, (1) pages. One of 115 numbered copies set in Baskerville type and printed on Abbey Mills paper. Inscribed by the author. A very good copy with a faded spine. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD MINUS. Large (7"x8.5") light tan paperback, staplebound, 34 pages. Signed by author, number 76 of 100 copies. Nude female models and a few artists rendered in pen and ink. Cover slightly soiled and rippled due to exposure to moisture; bottom of pages rippled. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Signed Limited Edition of 310 copies, of which 250 are for sale in this country and 50 in America. This copy No.28. Slim 4to, pp80 plus the 20 black/white and brown illustrations complete with descriptive tissue guards. Hardcover no dust jacket. Binding of full vellum with gilt title sto spine and front board in very good condition with a little shelf wear to top & tail of spine and tips of boards with the odd small mark to vellum. Inside signed by Cecil Aldin to limitation page with a little foxing to first and last pages and the odd spot throughout, with the plates happily unaffected and in lovely clean and bright condition. A very nice tightly bound copy of these wonderful portraits. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Very good in wraps. First Edition. 24 x 29cm 112pp very good exhibition catalogue featuring colour reproductions of incredible posters. Signed on the title page by an unknown hand.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. H. F. & G. Witherby 1930 1st edition hardback. Full vellum with gilt titles. One of 310 (250 for sale in UK) signed by Cecil Aldin. This is no. 309. 80pp. Contents complete with the 20 full page drawings, each with captioned tissue-guard. Vellum boards marked. Corners a little bumped. Top corners curled in slightly. Binding is tight. No names or other markings. Many pages have light water stain to lower half of page but nothing too disfiguring. Slight surface damage to blank ep adjacent to half-title page. Please study images. Overall a good copy of this scarce signed limited edition book. 1.1kg packed. If ordering from outside the UK additional postage and tracking will be required and to be agreed thanks. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is limited edition number 229 of 310 copies produced with handmade paper and bound in full vellum. Signed by the author on the limitation page and with its own lovely, custom made slipcase. The boards are shelf rubbed and edge worn, with a few small scratches and surface damage to the front and back. Despite this, the boards remain strong and sturdy. Internally, there is some light, sporadic foxing throughout, but there are no other markings or inscriptions, and the pages within are neat and complete. The binding is secure. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good -. This signed edition on English hand-made paper is limited to 310 copies, of which 250 are for sale in this country and 50 in America. This copy is numbered 264; Signed at edition description. Boards bound in vellum with gilt-debossed titling to spine and front board. Pages have moderate to heavy foxing to pages following illustrated plates, and heavy foxing to front fly leaf and last two pages. All plates and tissue guards are attached and intact with light foxing to tissue guards. Endpages have light soiling to edges. Text block has light wear, fore edge and lower edge are deckled, and top edge is sprayed gilt but is heavily tarnished. Boards are moderately to heavily soiled with heavy foxing to spine and rear board, and bumping and creasing to ends of spine and corners. Binding is tight and square. Covered in a protective clear plastic dust jacket.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Aldin, Cecil (illustrator). First edition. 1st 1930. Very good condition with no wrapper. SIGNED/LTD edition of which 300 copies are for sale. Not a collection of lovely ladies but a collection of even lovelier dogs! 20 superb full-page sketches depicting models the artists has known in various doggy poses. White boards, gilt titles. Plates have captioned tissue-guards. 80 pages, top edge gilt others untrimmed. SIGNED by Aldin to limitation page. This is copy no. 46. Spine and corners bumped. Some foxing and slight grubbiness to covers. Evidence of removal of a name plate to front pastedown. Some pale foxing else contents clean. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched! SIGNED - please see description for details.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. ALDIN, Cecil (illustrator). Limited Edition. A sumptuously produced, full vellum bound, card slipcased book containing twenty beautiful full -page, tissued-guarded, half-tone printed signed sketches of different dogs. Number 111 of 310 copies, 250 of which were for sale in the UK and 50 in the USA. Signed by Cecil Aldin in blue ink on the verso of the half title. Printed on fine English handmade paper at the Riverside Press, Edinburgh. Near fine to fine. Lovely, fresh-looking vellum boards with very bright gilt lettering. Internally in beautiful condition with fresh-looking bright white pages and, unusually, only a handful of small faint spots. Grey card slipcase with label is near fine with just a couple of small blemishes. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. Edition limited to 310 numbered copies. In vellum. Top corners lightly bumped. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. 4 SIGNED LETTERS FROM FOUR OF THE MAJOR ILLUSTRATORS OF THEIR TIMES ALL OF WHICH APPEARED IN PARAMOUNT'S 1937 UNFORGETTABLE FILM ARTISTS AND MODELS being a 175 word TYPED LETTER SIGNED by Rube Goldberg hyping his desire to get his friend and fellow artist Bruce Barton elected to Congress; a 75 holographic letter SIGNED by John La Gatta to author Caroline Mytinger commentating on her book and remembering the time he used her as a model; an 80 word TYPED LETTER SIGNED to fellow illustrator John La Gatta by Arthur William Brown asking him if he could put off for a week his duties as a fashion show judge; a 90 word TYPED LETTER SIGNED by Russell Patterson to long time friend Don Dickerman of Pirate Restaurant fame commenting on his, Dickerman's, ability to still be able to build things, that he, Patterson, still has trouble getting around but finds time to still paint, acknowledges news about John La Gatta stating that he will write him, etc. A nice little grouping most suitable for framing individually or as a lot with perhaps a stlll from the film.

Vellum. Condition: Near Fine. Cecil Aldin (illustrator). A lovely work by Cecil Aldin on dog, complete with his original illustrations, a smart signed limited edition. A limited edition of three hundred and ten copies, of which this is numbered one hundred and eighty two.Signed by Cecil Aldin to the limitation page.In the original slipcase, in a very good condition.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and nineteen plates.Collated, complete.A charming work by Cecil Aldin, in which he discusses the various canine models he has used throughout his career, a lovely work for dog lovers.Aldin says that his workshop "is more like a dog-kennel than a portrait-painter's studio". Hischarming illustrations of animals, sports, and rural scenes contributed to many different publications ensured that Aldin was one of the most popular book illustrators of his time. In the original publisher's vellum binding, in the original slipcase. Externally, smart. A couple of very light spots to the boards, as is usual with vellum. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Slipcase is a little worn, with a small amount of loss to the spine. Light age-toning and marks to the slipcase. Slipcase is in a very good condition. Near Fine. signed by author. book.