Wake by Keith Shackleton (10 results)

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. First Edition, 1954. No dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to corners. Light foxing to the page edges. Otherwise a clear, bright copy within.

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 127 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white and colour illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to half title page. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Minor sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Condition: Good. 1954. First Edition. 127 pages. Dust jacket over grey cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean pages with mild tanning and heavy foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Mild crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Heavy rubbing and marking all over. Notable droplets to spine.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Clean crisp copy with no markings., Tears and damage to jacket.

28x22. 128 pags. 1ªEd. Muy ilustrado. Cartoné ed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 9 x 11 in. Gray cloth boards with gilt titles and blindstamped boat. Lavish B&W and color illus. by the author. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends bumped with some wear, covers have a few spots/smears. Binding tight with a little give to the front hinges, text spotless. Naut. RGR.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: G. Keith Shackleton (illustrator). 1st. Here is the ideal book for those who love small boats and particularly those drawing their motive power from the sea breeze. The author/artist was an accomplished small boat sailor and also a noted artist, particularly of bird life. In "Wake" he draws together both areas of expertise with his experiences, observations and encounters on the water blended together through his art. Each of his 16 full colour art plates provides an evocative and atmospheric backdrop for a chapter, furthermore, each chapter is illustrated with his lovely black and white drawings,128 in all. A truely lovely book in words and pictures. 128 pages, map e/papers. Grey hard covers with gilt front/spine titles, impressed front decoration, VG with light wear spine extremities, lower corners. Text block excellent, no inscriptions. G colour art DJ price clipped, has several tears and chips, but little loss of surface.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original granite grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, nautical map lining papers. 4to. 10½'' x 8¼''. Contains 127 pp illustrated by Keith Shackleton with 16 full-page colour plates, and many full-page and part-page lino-cut monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing to the corners, not price clipped, 31s 6d. Member of the P.B.F.A. SAILING BOATS (Yachting).

Lutterworth, London, 1954. Illustrated with color and b&w plates, and text figures. 8.75" x 11.25". 127 pp. Grey cloth, decorated endpapers. The text primarily on small boat sailing around England, including punt gunning. Very good in very good wrapper.

1st edition chipped dust jacket Nice copy quarto 128pp., frontis., col. & b/w ills., Illustrated by the Author. Not price clipped.