Acanthus (27 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tazuko Sugajima (illustrator). First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Acanthus (illustrator). Blue cover. 119 pages; full page, color photos; small b/w photos and other illustrations; the appendices have 3 patents, chronology, marks for heads, bodies, and shoes; bib.; index. The pages have light musty odor. The DJ has a 3/8 in. closed tear, and the lamination has several, long raised lines. Scans e-mailed upon request. Priority or international shipping will require extra shipping cost.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Acanthus (illustrator). Orange boards have light wear, light burgundy discoloring on back. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: vg. Acanthus / Tom King, dj (illustrator). 104 pages; b/w illustrations & decorations; contents clean, pp age-toned; light shelf wear to edges of color il'd dj. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Good. Acanthus (illustrator). Dedicated to relative, Elspeth Huxley (Also related to Thomas Huxley, Darwin's "bulldog.") 104 pages on the history of tea and its customs. Orange cloth, bright gilt title on front, very bright gilt on spine. DJ colorfully illustrated, teapot pouring steaming tea into decorated cup and saucer. DJ has slight surface wear to front tips, light crease and light thin scratch at top front, microtear and crease at spine bottom edge, illustration of Huxley on top back, tiny nick at bottom spine indentation, back lightly browned. Near Good DJ/Very Fine book.

Condition: Good. 1955. First Edition. 96 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards.

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated by Acanthus. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. As new. 194 pps.

Acanthus (illustrator). 8vo, pp. 104. Illustrated with drawings by 'Acanthus.' A nice copy in scuffed dj. All about tea: its history, properties, how to prepare it.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Acanthus (illustrator). Condition: Very Good/Good. 1956. No Edition Remarks. 103 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning and very light foxing to text block edges. Moderate tanning to free endpapers with inscriptions to front, and occasional notes in the margins. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket (10/6 net)has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Moderate tanning and creasing, with rubbing and marking. The previous owner had the interesting habit of cutting our relevant press articles and "tipping" them in to pastedown, end papers, etc. This book has this in the rear. I've left them in rather than rsik damage by removal, and to leave the additional historical context which may be of interest to the reader. In this case, one of the items is from the "Federation of Malaya", "Extract from the Panters' Chronicle July '52 - Tea in Burma and the Shan States". He also sometimes added his own notes written in pen or pencil - not often, but interesting. Clearly an academic gentleman !

Condition: Fair. 1955. First Published. 96 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Blue cloth. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Slight cracking to hinges, with exposed netting, rear board slightly loose. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing to spine ends. Fraying to cloth to edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Acanthus & Others (illustrator). 18x12.5cm. 80 pages plus colour covers. Includes a black & white female nude. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref A32. London Opinion and the Humorist. April 1948. Published by George Newnes Ltd, London. 9d cover price.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Acanthus & others (illustrator). 18x12.5cm. 80 pages including black & white photo of female nude. Cover price: 9d. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref A32. London Opinion and the Humorist magazine. May 1948.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Hynes, Acanthus & others (illustrator). 18x12.5cm. Cover price: 9d. 72 pages. Black & white nudes. CORNER CREASING. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Acanthus and Others (illustrator). 18x12.5cm. 80 pages plus colour covers. 9d cover price. Black & white photo of a female nude. Clean and tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Barry Appleby, Acanthus & Others (illustrator). Stapled booklet. 18x12.5 cm. Colour covers. 80 pages include a black & white female nude. Maze done in pencil. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched with TRACKING boxed in cardboard. ref.

Soft cover. Condition: Good Plus. Hynes, Acanthus and Others (illustrator). 72 pages. 18x12.5cm. Cover price: 9d. Black and white female photo nudes. Short tear to cover. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref.

Stapled Booklet. Condition: Very Good. Norman Thelwell; Acanthus and Others (illustrator). Stapled Booklet. 19.5x13.5cm. 88 pages plus colour covers. Black and white female nude photo. Clean and tight. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Hynes, Acanthus and Others (illustrator). 80 pages plus colour covers. 9d cover price. Black & white photo of a female nude. Clean and tight. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hynes (cover art and jokes), Starke, Acanthus, Ian Dickson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Original, September 1947 Men Only paperback in good clean condition throughout, including the cover which has a slight rear crease and a little shelf wear, and as usual, the 'yapp' edges are frayed giving a tatty appearance although actually still very good. No inscription and clean white pages, illustrated throughout in the text and with full page jokes (some in artwork colour). The famous Noel Coward caricature to front cover. Interesting ads and still humorous, now off-beat, content.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Acanthus (illustrator). First Edition. Hardback: illustrated in colour by ACANTHUS, no dustjacket, book is bound in cloth which is damp spotted on the top edges, a few other small marks, spine tips and corners are slightly bumped and rubbed, pages are a bit rippled on the top edges, the lower page edges are slightly finger creased and marked, still g. 4to, (30pp).

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back over black cloth spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 140 pp with thumb-nail biographies of 21 leading cartoonists together with 100 of their monochrome illustrations throughout. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with small chips to the corners, not price clipped, 7/6. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUMOUR (Satire, Cartoon).

VG. softcovers. no dj. internally, a good clean copy. illustrated by numerous b/w. drawings & cartoons; "The great country houses of England are unique. Set in huge and magnificent parklands, designed by outstanding craftsmen and filled with exquisite furniture and pictures they form a collection that for fascination and sheer delight is unrivalled in either hemisphere.

Paperback. Condition: New. Nuovo (New) .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Studio Publications; 1955. First edition. The Studio "How to Do it Series"- Number 56. Hardcover with unclipped dust cover. Dust cover intact but chipped to all edges, small tears and shelf wear. Dust cover is in fair condition only. The book has black cloth covered boards with silver lettering to spine. Previous owners name written neatly to FFEP. Binding tight and text clean.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. illustrated by numerous b/w. drawings & cartoons; "The great country houses of England are unique. Set in huge and magnificent parklands, designed by outstanding craftsmen and filled with exquisite furniture and pictures they form a collection that for fascination and sheer delight is unrivalled in either hemisphere. Two world wars have drained England and now the once-great families, no longer able to maintain their enormous houses and estates, must find some means of doing so. By inviting the public to see their houses they have opened a new and enchanting world, and many owners have gone to great pains to make these visits more exciting and pleasurable. This book is the story of one such family and one such house. Family and house are, of course, entirely fictional."; light wear at spine bottom; a scarce title; 63 pages. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Humour; Architecture; Fiction. Inventory No: CFT00018.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 64p paperback in white illustrated cover, very good condition, light sunning and marks to back cover, minimal wear, binding intact, pages clean and neat, illustrations and cartoons clear and sharp throughout, a very good copy; this is a rare presentation copy signed by the author, noted cartoonist Frank Hoar aka 'Acanthus', with two personal inscriptions and an attached compliments slip Language: English.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Acanthus (illustrator). First edition. A very smart first edition of this illustrated guide to tea drinking, signed and inscribed by the author. First edition. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper with an inscription that reads: "For Harold, with the author's warmest regards. Christmas 1956." Illustrated throughout. A guide to the drinking of tea with chapters on the story and history of tea in England, the growth of tea, buying and selling, tea and the doctor, "out to tea", tea things, and much more. Written by Gervas Huxley, a British author and the son of English biologist and anthropologist Thomas Henry Huxley. Illustrated by Acanthus. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Minor fading with the odd small mark to the cloth. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Minor age toning to the endpapers with the previous owner's bookplate to the front endpaper. Very Good. signed by author. book.