Beowulf by Gavin Bone (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 1st Thus. 84pp, plus colour plate frontispiece and five further colour plate illustrations. Slim 8vo. In worn and soiled cloth boards, fabric cracked around spine. Ex library, with most of the markings removed (remnants of label on loose endpaper, stamps on copyright page), else internally neat, clean and tidy. With an introductory essays and charming period illustrations.…

Condition: Good. 1946. 1946 Reprint. 84 pages. Beige pictorial dust jacket over beige cloth. Pages are lightly tanned at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards have slight shelf with bumping to corners.Spine ends are notably crushed with considerable tanning. Slight forward lean to text block. Boards are noticeably bowed. The unclipped dust jacket has heavy edge wear, tears and chips. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Considerable loss to all parts of the dust jacket.…

Condition: Good. Original cloth, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, 8vo.; Dust jacket damaged.

First Edition. Good copy in the original cloth. Writing to spine faded. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Boards and end papers stained and sun-toned. Text and images remain clean. Physical description; x, 84 p. : ill. ; cm. Subjects; Epic poetry, English (Old). Monsters ; Poetry. Dragons ; Poetry. 1 Kg. …

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

OLn. 2, N. X,83 S., ee. farb. Abb., Wegen der PPWR-Bestimmungen (Verpackungsmittelverordungen der EU) liefern wir nicht in Staaten der EU, mit Ausnahme von Österreich. Due to PPWR regulations (EU Packaging Directives), we do not deliver to EU countries, with the exception of Austria. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 230. …

First Edition. Good copy in the original cloth. Writing to spine faded. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Boards and end papers stained and sun-toned. Text and images remain clean. Physical description; x, 84 p. : ill. ; cm. Subjects; Epic poetry, English (Old). Monsters ; Poetry. Dragons ; Poetry. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing/vg hardback in poor torn chipped dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Reprint. 84pp. Beige cloth wth tite to the spine. Illustrated throughout. A former owner's name to the front free end-paper otherwise unmarked. Altogether a nice copy. The Author (illustrator).

Original Paper Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Posthumously published version of Beowulf with a fourteen page introduction and seven colour plates. Gavin Bone died in 1942. Two page preface by his mother Gertrude Helana. The boards have a very heavily browned spine and patches of dark browning around the edges of the front and rear panels. This copy was owned by Cecil Leslie who has written a short religious quotation on the front free endpaper with name and date underneath. Page edges browned with some scattered spotting. The endpapers have some spotting and there is spotting to the pages at the front and rear of the book. Light spotting in a few places through the book but the pages are otherwise generally clean and unmarked. The jacket has one inch missing at the top of the spine and three inches missing at the bottom. Chipping around the edges with two half-inch closed tears to the top edge of the front panel. Quite heavy browning and spotting. First printing. Bone, Gavin (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo, first edition, pp,x,84, coloured frontispiece and five coloured plates, gilt titled light tan cloth which has toning and some dust-soiling, pictorial unclipped dust-jacket which has toning, brown spotting, some small tears and a little loss, slight foxing to endpapers.…