Four Playmates (7 results)

hardback, 4to, 84pp, Chromolithographed colour illustrations, disbound, loose sheets with a few frayed edges, a large diagonal tear on one text page with old taped repair, contents otherwise clean and complete, gilt-patterned endapapers,red morocco leather over card covers, gilt titles, board edges worn, lacks spine and backstrip; Fair condition.…

hardcover. Condition: Fair. Bound in burgundy cloth, wear is quite heavy with bare spots painted in quite well, spine appears to be repaired. Missing the original paperback cover, the first page is the title page, soiled and chipped on the edges. Binding has been sewed in, another repair. Corners chipped, edges soiled, tears and chips throughout, page 47-48 quite torn and repaired, page 31 missing lower right corner - 7.5" gone. 69 pages, as called for. Folio sized - 10x15". All orders packed with care, most dust jackets protected by Brodart sleeve, independent bookseller since 2011.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 'Illustrated with 217 Pictures in oil colours by the First Artists'. Collection of classic nursery tales, including The Three Bears, Bold Robin Hood, Jack the Giant killer and others. With numerous images arranged in panels. 4to. Pictorial covers. Rubbing to edges. Light toning and spotting to page edges. Pen marks and writing to final page (not affecting text/image). Binding sound. Good overall. The First Artists (illustrator).…

Zeitschrift. Condition: Gut. Erotik, Vintage-Zeitschrift, Männermagazin, US-Magazin, 70er-Jahre Heft in Schutzhülle in gut erhaltenem Zustand B2684-86 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 220.

Ranchi, Bushey, Hertfordshire, one dated 15 November 1913. George Owen Wynne Apperley (1884 Ventnor - 1960 Tangier) was educated at Eagle House, Sandhurst and at Uppingham School prior to studying art at Herkomer Academy, Bushey, Herts. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, 1905 and then mounted his first individual exhibition in London, 1906. He was elected as a member of the Royal Institute of Watercolour Artists in 1913.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Folio Size,15 x 10 inches, Original decorated boards, Illustrated throughout with full page colour plates, 69pp, Later cloth spine & endpapers added, Some rubbing to edges of boards with small amounts of loss to paper on boards, Corners bumped, Some occasional light offsetting from plates, Occ finger marks or blemishes to pages, Occ repairs & small tears to bottom page margins with the odd repair a little crude [see last image for example] Overall some faults but nothing to serious & still in good-very good condition.…

Both of these poems appeared in Crow (1970); Hughes's fair copy of "Crow's Playmates" matches the published text; however, in the typescript of "Crow's Battle Fury", there is one five-line stanza in parentheses which does not appear in the published text; and is this stanza which bears Hughes's holograph corrections. Both manuscripts are in fine condition. Both manuscripts are in fine condition.…