Playtime Book, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 95 Pp. One Of One Hundred Copies Of The Signed, Limited Edition In Blue Cloth And Grey Boards With Paper Label, This Copy With Numbering Statement Crossed Out, Signed By E V Lucas And Ernest H Shepard With Inked Note Below "This Is A Presentation Copy For G Oliver Anderson". Decorative Bookplate "Ex Libris G Oliver Anderson" With Illustration Of A Medieval Teacher Reading To His Students Who Are Sitting Around Him. Anderson Was A Partner With Methuen. Book Is Near Fine, Light Rubbing At Corners With 1/2" Loss Of Paper At Bottom Of Two Lower Tips Along Bottom Edges. Dj Complete, Browned At Edges, 1" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Spine Edge And Another At Top Of Rear Flap Fold, 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Opf Front Panel, Minute Loss At Lower Bottom Front Tip, At Center Of Bottom Of Spine Edge, And At Top Of Rear Spine Edge. Signed by Author(s).

First edition. Royal octavo. 95 pages. Cloth-backed pictorial paper boards. The verses are copiously illustrated throughout in black and white. Loosely inserted is a flyer for the exhibition of the original drawings at the Sporting Gallery, Covent Garden, in December 1925.Signed on the title-page by the artist and the author.Spine slightly faded. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition. Scarce signed limited first edition of these illustrated children's verses, printed on handmade paper and signed by both the author and illustrator. 8.5'' x 7''. Original quarter blue cloth with grey boards. Printed paper label mounted to front board. In original pale blue printed dust jacket. 95, [1] pages. Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies printed on hand-made paper; this copy no. 55. Signed by Shepard and Lucas at colophon. Black and white illustrations by Shepard throughout. Offsetting to endpapers. Light soil and a few small closed tears to jacket. Contemporary bookseller label to jacket spine. Near fine in very good plus jacket. Signed.

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. Tall octavo. 96pp. Free endpapers with a bit of offsetting else a fine, unopened copy in a lightly edge toned, near fine dust jacket and lightly wrinkled else about fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies on unopened handmade paper, Signed by Lucas and Shephard. A handsome copy, presumabely rare in the original glassine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION ONE OF ONLY 15 COPIES. 1 vol., 8-7/8 x 7-1/4", this being copy # 7 signed by Lucas and Shepard, printed on Japan vellum, bound in the original white vellum, yap edges, title and author gilt to front cover, unopened, with the original card slipcase, the book is FINE and the original card slipcase is VERY GOOD. Published the year before the publication of "Winnie The Pooh". Signed by Author(s).

8vo., 96pp., printed on quality Japanese vellum paper, finely illustrated throughout by Ernest H. Shepard, original, bound in fine cream vellum boards with title and author's name printed in gilt on upper cover. A remarkably fine bright clean copy. This is the superior SIGNED LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION OF ONLY 15 COPIES, signed by both E.V. Lucas and Ernest H. Shepard and printed on Japanese vellum. A charming collection of poetry and verse by the prolific Edward Verrall Lucas with Ernest H. Shepard's wonderful illustrations. Shepard is best known as the illustrator of books by A. A. Milne, including Winne the Pooh.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition thus. Thin, square 8vo. Illustrated throughout with drawings by Shepard. Original light blue cloth over gray boards, upper cover with printed label, uncut. Original plain printed dust jacket (unclipped; slight darkening). Very good-fine. No other signatures or bookplates. #26/100 numbered copies, signed by both Shepard and Lucas on limitation page. Signed by Author(s).

E.H. Shepard. Signed, Limited Edition. 1 of 100 copies on hand-made paper. Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. 1 vols. Square 8vo. Original cloth and boards, paper label on front boards, dust jacket. Very minor water stain to lower extremities, dust jacket soiled and a bit chipped. Preserved in a cloth slipcase. Otherwise Fine Illustrated by E.H. Shepard. 1 vols. Square 8vo Signed, Limited Edition. 1 of 100 copies on hand-made paper.