Bunty, Signed (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, warmly inscribed on title page by author, a presentation copy. Book and dust jacket have some light edge wear. A dual-language book: English/Maori. Illustrated with b & w photos. Includes bibliography, nominal roll of D Company, 28th Maori Battalion and index. During WWII, the Maori Battalion served in Egypt and Italy. A totally volunteer force, they received more individual bravery decorations than any other New Zealand Battalion. Much of the book is based on interviews with Preece, one of the last surviving members of the battalion. Nice copy, and quite scarce. BP. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s) A fine book published without a DW in a fine Slipcase, this is the TRUE first edition/TRUE first impression of a truly legendary publication. At the rear of the book it states that this is of an edition of only 300 copies all bound in quarter cloth and a Paul Nash pattern paper newly put together from one of the drawings he made for Images of War 1919. As Ronald Blythe says in his introduction "The passion for landscape united these four friends. At the very end of the book it states "Few books can have been so satisfying to put together as this one for both Author and Publisher". The book was signed for me by Ronald Blythe at the Ilkley Lit Fest in the early part of this century when he was touring with the late Roger Deakin. The book is signed without inscription on the title page. Signed simply "Ronald Blythe". ISigned by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 144pp; b/w illustrations; no d/j, grey boards with rubbed edges, small stain to front bottom edge, previous owner's name sticker to fep., blue title to spine, spine tanned. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Mustard yellow cloth with color image of Uncle Wiggily on the cover, lettering in red on the cover, black on the spine. Colors are faded and the binding is somewhat shaken. Backing linen visible at the gutter at the front endpaper. 161 pages. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated only 1920. List of UW books on the copyright page lists only 11 titles, ending with this one. Contains 31 stories. Plates are in red and green and brown ink. Signed on the front endpaper by Howard R. Garis, who also signs as Uncle Wiggily. Another name written beneath in another ink. Please email with questions or to request photos. Signed Uncle Wiggily books are scarce in any condition. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the author and printed on Chariot cream cartridge paper (of 600). Small 4to. Stapled wrappers. [iv], 24pp. Slight rubbing to the oversized wrappers, the fore corners just gently bumped, and with a few areas of soiling (primarily towards the tail edge of the upper wrapper), the lower wrapper also with a few peripheral spots, but Very Good all in all. Uncommon, particularly in this limitation. Signed by Author(s).

1st edition. Hardcover. Large 4to, one of 300 copies produced, in fine slipcase. Fine blue patterned boards, from a Paul Nash drawing made for 'Images of War' in 1919, with burgundy quarter binding, beautiful clean pages. Signed by Ronald Blythe on the title page. In 1977, after the deaths in short order of his closest friends, John and Christine Nash, Blythe discovered a tin trunk full of letters in the brick oven at their house. These were letters which they, along with Paul Nash and Dora Carrington, had all exchanged before the First World War and then during the 1920s. They had met at the Slade School of Art. In his Introduction Blythe says that 'What emerges from this youthful correspondence is a vivid and sometimes painful account of artists finding their feet and then being caught up in the miseries of the First World War, and eventually finding very different paths'. This correspondence forms the basis of this wonderful book, together with a wealth of illustrations, including colour reproductions of some of Paul and John Nash's famous war paintings, a number of their drawings and sketches, incuding several tipped-in/fold-out plates, and pencil drawings and woodcuts by Dora Carrington, along with photographs, vignettes and ephemera. Ronald Blythe, author of the celebrated Akenfield, and a passionate advocate for the beauty of the landscape, has fashioned from these letters and images an absorbing picture of artistic life in early 20th-century Britain, in a magnificent piece of book production.