Beasts Saints, First Edition (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Root, Kimberly Bulcken (illustrator). First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Root, Kimberly Bulcken (illustrator). 1st Edition. hardback , pictorial glazed boards, a very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a well preserved pictorial dust jacket which has faded to the spine. Illustrated in colour by Kimberley Bulcken Root, 127pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ex-library marks, rebound; pages yellowed; a solid binding. The dust jacket is chipped and torn along the edges and the flaps; tape stains/residue. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Children's; Inventory No: 226835.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Gibbings, Robert (illustrator). First Edition. Used - Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Kimberley Bulcken Root (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st edition 1993. Firmly bound and very carefully read. Both book & unclipped jacket are in excellent clean condition. No inscription or ownership markings. Notears or loss. Illustrated in colour,

Original decorated cloth. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. With frontispiece, decorated title, plates, vignettes & illustrations after Robert Gibbings. Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Slight browning to endpapers. Spine and part front cover faded. Slight wear & slight soiling to spine, covers & corners. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 151 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First U.S Edition. Near Fine Card Stock Covers. First Edition. 12mo Blue Thick Paperback. Essay "Beasts And Saints: A Key To The Lion In Chretien's Yvain" Essay by Helen C.R. Laurie within this complete 389 pp. Bulletin. Great resource of names of Arthurian Editors, Collectors, authors around the world, bibliographies and reviews of current (1987) Clean NOT a library copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Peterson, Russell (illustrator). First Edition Stated. Stiff clean unmarked book with slight shelfwear to illustrated boards. Saint-illustrated endpapers. Scarce first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). 1st Edition. A nice tight copy, red cloth with black decorations, spine sunned, 151p. Lovely woodcuts by Gibbings. This collection of stories are of the mutual charities between saints and beasts, from the end of the fourth to the end of the twelfth century translated from the original latin and illustrated with many wood cuts.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Woodcuts by Robrt Gibbings (illustrator). 1st Edition. A lovely book of storiy1s translated from the 4th to the 12th centuries accompanied by wonderful fantastical woodcuts by Gibbings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First edition, as stated. A re-telling of four legends, Saint Jerome and the Lion, Saint Roch and the Dog, Saint Francis and the Wolf and Saint Macarius and the Hyena presented in the style of old illuminated manuscripts. Tight binding. No chips, tears, creases or written inscriptions on pages. Dust jacket is NOT price-clipped and is in a clear, protective, and removable mylar sleeve. A bit of surface wear to jacket and a few small nicks around edges. Size: 8vo (8" to 9").

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. Red boards, faded and tatty. Neat gift inscription dated 1934 to ffep. Woodcuts by Robert Gibbings. Some foxing to pages. Binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cara Lockhart Smith (illustrator). First Edition. A hardback book in very good condition, dated 1980. Jacket is in very good condition and is protected with a new, clear, loose fitting, sellophane wrapper. Book is illustrated by Cara Lockhart Smith.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). 1st Edition. xx, 151 pages. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: Margaret / with my love and admiration / H.W. [later ownership inscription beneath, and another to outer edge of front pastedown]. Top edge red. Jacket toned, price clipped, chipped at head of spine, and with light soil. Small ding to top edge of lower board. The book is tidy. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Cory, Fanny Y. (illustrator). First Edition. 226pp Illus Wear to extremities and backstrip; previous owner's name on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Gibbings, Robert (illustrator). 1st Edition. Translations by Helen Waddell. 151 pages. Frontispiece and title page beautifully illlustrated with black woodcuts. More great illustrations throughout text. Pages good condition, no marks. Previous owner's inscription on top of ffep. Endpapers very lightly yellowed. Foredges Red cloth with embossed floral design in corners and wonderful black illustration on upper cover. Spine faded. Edges and corners lightly worn. VG. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). First edition. A bright first edition collection of pre-twelfth century tales of animals and saints, translated from their original Latin, with the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original red cloth binding, complete with the scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.An attractive first edition of this work, with detailed illustrations from sculptor and wood engraver Robert Gibbings. A collection of stories illustrating the bonds between saints and animals, spanning from the late fourth to the twelfth century, translated from Latin by author, playwright, and scholar Helen Waddell. Focusing exclusively on tales of pre-Franciscan saints, Waddell deliberately uses accessible language. Detailed notes on her sources are provided at the end of the volume. The collection is organized into three thematic sections: The Desert Fathers, The Saints of the West, and The Saints of Ireland. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, Very smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading to head and tail of spine. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Endpapers slightly age toned with slight offsetting and one or two spots. Dust wrapper, generally smart. Loss to spine. The odd chip and closed tear to extremities. Slight age toning, more so to spine, with one or two slight handling marks. The odd spot to perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to first few leaves and one or two spots to fore edge. Very Good Indeed. book.