Musrum by Eric Thacker: First Edition (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Graphic novel, first trade edition (hardback). 8vo (25cm by 19cm), 160pp. Text illustrations. Original brown cloth spine, marbled boards, gilt titling to the spine, title label to the front board, acetate dustwrapper. Book and dust jacket in fine condition, no marks or inscriptions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1st edition. Heavy, extra postage may be required if posted outside South Africa. Boards edge worn, sunned, knocked and marked. Mild tanning. Minor marks throughout the pages. However, it is in good condition, excellent binding and intact. MK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear and scuffing to boards due to age and use. All pages are intact, binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

1st edn. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed paper-laid boards (prelims spotted - otherwise VG). Pp. 159, with b&w illus throughout (no inscriptions).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Surrealist graphic novel profusely illustrated by both authors, with many Escherian quirks. CONDITION Black spine with gilt title, Green art paper bds with paste on paper title flag (bottom front cnr bumped o/w unworn) 160 pages with b/w illustrations. (Light dust spotting to ends and edges) Clear acetate DJ has loss top and bottom front. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. - 1st Trade Edition. Pale green marble boards with lettering to the front and gold lettering to the brown cloth spine. Bend to the front board. Top of the closed page edges sprayed purple. Clear mylar dust jacket which has chips and slits to the top and tail of the spine. No inscriptions, 160pp, clean and bright pages with black and white illustrations throughout. (Any digital image available on request).…

First Edition. Fine in the original gilt-blocked, cloth-backed marble boards complete with the original fine price-labeled glassine dust wrapper. Highly uncommon in such positive condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages; Francis Williams Award for Illustration, 1972. Artist's book. Text and images. Physical description; [160] p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Subjects; English literature. Experimental writing in English, 1945 - Texts. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First trade edition. Small quarto. Boards slightly bowed, light foxing on the endleaves, and one corner with a tiny split, very good or better, in a very good clear acetate dust jacket, with a few cracks along the edges, and a small publishers sticker on the front fly. A surrealist graphic novel.…

First Edition. Fine in the original gilt-blocked, cloth-backed marble boards complete with the original fine price-labeled glassine dust wrapper. Highly uncommon in such positive condition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 159 pages; Francis Williams Award for Illustration, 1972. Artist's book. Text and images. Physical description; [160] p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. Subjects; English literature. Experimental writing in English, 1945 - Texts. 1 Kg. …

Hb. Condition: VG. None. First Limited Edition. Signed by both authors with No: 245 of which 250 were signed out of 350 copies Limited Editions. Light rubbing and faint dusting of a little soiling to cover. Light sunning strips to front & rear cover head margin & along spines front margin.1cm small divot to lower front cover. Maroon head edge. Extremely faint tiny smudge to fore-edge. Very clean content, b&w line drawings, binding tight. 160p Large folio 26cm x 35cm. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 250x190x20mm+576g . . 500g Postage Incorrect see below for 1kg . . Jonathan Cape. London. 1968. First Edition. 1st Printing. . Pp159. Green Marbled matt hard boards. Brown Cloth Spine. Gilt lettering to spine. Glassine dust jacket price labelled. Book block foxed - seen when book is closed. Jacket has minor losses to spine and front corner. All reviews I have read, wonder why this amazing book has not been reprinted. It IS rather extra-ordinary. . . Australia_Post_Zoned_International_Shipping_Rates_FOR_THIS_PARCEL . . AP-Zone1_NZ:_AU$33.00 . . AP-Zone3_Canada_USA:_AU$49.40 . . AP-Zone4_UK_Europe:_AU$56.60 . . Domestic_tracked_OR_registered_flat_rate_FOR_THIS_ITEM_Within_Australia:_AU$18.20. THACKER, ERIC; EARNSHAW, ANTHONY (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. Trade edition, with marble boards and cloth spine. Title label to front, gilt lettering to spine. In the original glassine dust wrapper with price label. Illustrated by Anthony Earnshaw. Pages are age tanned but clean. Binding is tight. 8vo. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Limited Edition. Hardback. Large 4to.pp. 160. Limited edition of 500 copies: this being No.255. Fiction. Fantasy:"Musrum condemned an adulteress to the electric blanket. Musrum is lying in wait for you inside these covers. Musrum's first important invention was the Crispine alphabet. It consisted of only one character which has not as yet been deciphered." Title page illustration of many mushrooms. Surrealist-style illustrations by Anthony Earnshaw in black and white throughout. /Eric Thacker was an English surrealist, jazz enthusiast, and clergyman - a lifelong friend of artist Anthony Earnshaw. Very good-minus. All edges rubbed. Slight fading. Sound. Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. GP-556. Illustrated. Stated first printing. Near fine in a very good (short closed edge tear on rear panel, a bit of light foxing on verso) dust jacket.; 160 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition Beige cloth backed boards, purple wood-veneer sides, printed paper title label to front, top edge dyed purple, beige endpapers. , an excellent copy of the 350 limited edition copies. Musrum is an extraordinary piece of late-60s mythography with a small cult following - it starts as a semi-Biblical and highly lysergic creation myth centered around its eponymous hero, Musrum, and proceeds into an epic conflict against his ruthless adversary, the Weedking. It was produced via an exchange of letters between the author Thacker, a Methodist minister from a town outsider Rotherham, and the illustrator Earnshaw, a teacher at Bradford College of Art (and an atheist).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Folio. Measuring approximately 10½" x 13¾". Cloth and papercovered boards with printed cover label and spine gilt. Boards with some sunning and spotting on the edges, corners and a couple of small areas on the board edges just worn through, very good, possibly lacking a dust jacket. The text is fine. Copy 419 of 500 copies printed. A surrealist graphic novel. …

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. The first trade edition of this well regarded fantasy book written by Eric Thacker and Anthony Earnshaw. The first trade edition.In the original publisher's glassine wrap.A cult classic fantasy book by Eric Thacker and Anthony Earnshaw, telling the story of Musrum's kingdom and his battle with Weedking.Illustrated throughout by Earnshaw. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with paper to the boards, in the original glassine wrap. Externally, fine. A few light marks to the glassine wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. Anthony Earnshaw (illustrator). book.…

1ST EDITION. A FINE HARDBACK COPY WITH BROWN SPINE AND GREEN BOARDS. SIGNED AND DATE BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST.