Percy Issue, First Edition (6 results)

Softcover (Perfect Bound). Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 189 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 pound or less. Category: Literature & Literary; Religion & Theology. ISBN: 0870491547. ISBN/EAN: 9780870491542. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request.

Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. New; pristine. See scans and description. Hobart, Tasmania: Poet Press, 2019. Issue #23, "Being Human: All About Us", of New Philosopher (NewPhilosopher) magazine, the award winning, zero-advertising publication which in fact launched in Australia in 2013 at the Byron Bay Writers Festival. but is now based in Hobart, Tasmania. Quarto, illustrated perfect-bound wraps, 130 pp. New, and without flaw. See scans. In sealed protection, on premises. Multiple thoughtful writers on the issue theme question - "What Does it Mean to be Human?" - include Peter Strain; Sherry Turkle; Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore; Roy Scranton; Oliver Burkeman; Martha Nussbaum; Dan Ariely; Antonia Case; Ai Weiwei; Anee Wojcicki; Bernard-Henri Levy; Maxim Loskutoff; Tim Dean; Andre Dao; Allison Arieff; Ayobami Adebayo; Matthew Beard; Will Storr; Simon Critchley; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Carrie Jenkins; Cameron Raynes; Pico Ayer; Helena Norberg-Hodge. Evocative art, as well. Please review scan of contents page for more specifics. A scarce genre collectible, in perfect condition. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, not a bag. LPR45.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 4to. Stapled wrappers, slightly chafed and with a little tenderness to the natural fold. Very good. This issue also includes contributions by Graham Greene (his regular cinema feature), Elizabeth Bowen (her regular theatre feature), and Evelyn Waugh (three book reviews).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Small 4to. 87pp. Lettered and decorated card wrappers. Some light toning to the wrapper margins, and a little chipping to the spine ends. A very good copy in toned and slightly soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a little corresponding loss to the spine panel ends. Four page 'A&I 7 Stop Press' news-sheet laid-in, as issued (primarily of significance because it includes the results of a competition set by Ian Fleming in the same insert included with the fifth issue of this periodical). This issue also includes contributions by Gerard Hopkins ('The Sketchbooks of Claude Lovat Fraser'), Roland Knaster ('Watchpress: A Neglected Conceit'), John Keir Cross ('The Drawings of Robin Jacques'), and A. F. Johnson ('Some English Decorated Initials'), plus several pages of book reviews. The penultimate number of Harling's short-lived quarterly magazine of typography and graphic arts which ran between 1946-1948, and was the precursor to his equally short-lived follow-up 'Image. A Quarterly of the Visual Arts' (1949-1952).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of the first edition, designed by John and Griselda Lewis, and printed and bound by the Scolar Press on Glastonbury Book Antique Laid paper in an edition of 200 numbered copies (this being #190). This copy inscribed by the author on the half-title. 4to. 200pp. Quarter leather with patterned paper sides, lettered in gold at the spine and with two gilt rules. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with scores of reproductions, many full-page and some in colour. A fine copy. No dust wrapper called for, but housed in the original slipcase which also houses a four-colour Bawden lithograph in a separate folding portfolio, signed, titled and numbered by the artist, and printed in an edition of 200 copies by the Curwen Studio. Folding prepublication prospectus laid-in. A superb copy of a delightful production. Inscribed by Author(s).

8vo., First Edition, First Issue, with lithographed frontispiece (uncoloured as usual), engraved map and 19 splendid aquatint plates ALL FINELY COLOURED BY HAND; attractively bound in twentieth-century green straight-grain half morocco, green cloth sides, back with five raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered in gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy with virtually no trace of the usual offsetting. A crisp, clean copy of the First Issue, with plate 12 reading 'Bunbridge' [for 'Bembridge'] and plate 3 reading 'Ryde' [for 'Ryde Plate 1']. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Abbey, Scenery, 351; Bobins II, 628.