Angus Peggy (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 182 pp. Burgundy boards decorated in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates and line drawings. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; previous owner's name inside. Stories about Sir John Gielgud, told by: J. C. Trewin; Angus McBean; Emlyn Williams; Christopher Fry; Alec Guinness; John Mortimer; Peggy Ashcroft; Harold Hobson; Irene Worth; Peter Brook; Michael Billington; Alan Bennett; Michael Coveney; and Derek Granger; followed by a postscript, a chronology and an index. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A clean and sound copy. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. International Priority Air Mail shipping available for this item.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Good+ dust. Very good and clean, but the book is curved overall from poor storage. Likely will flatten out with time under weight. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 163 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Stated. Very Good/Very Good with light edge wear to dustjacket and no marks to text. Poetry/Anthologies; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. 163pp. Faint dampstain on top fine page edge near spine, cover corners slightly bumped, still a near fine copy in a good or better dampstained, faded, and lightly edgeworn dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 163pp. Page edges and endpapers foxed, decorative bookplate on front pastedown, a very good copy in a very good foxed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Wear to edges and corners of dustjacket, edges creased and worn, some small rips and nicks, back edge of spine worn, Underjacket in good condition, some light wear to edges and corners, Internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition hard cover book in good- condition with dust jacket also in good- condition. Extensive foxing to jacket with shelfwear to all edges and fading to spine. Nasty bump to foot of spine with chip to foot of front board. Spotting to edges of text block with foxing to front and rear endpapers and to page edges. Pages tanned. 8vo. 163pp. …

First Edition. Literary poetry collection with an introduction by Cecil Day Lewis A few light spots to jacket otherwise VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 4to. 176pp. Decorated boards. With endpapers decorations, a photographic frontispiece of the artist at work, and over 125 photographs and reproductions, predominantly in colour. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. A monograph on the Chilean-born British painter and designer, who studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1920s alongside Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, and Enid Marx.…

37 x 27 x 8cm slipcase holding two items - the deluxe edition of the book, hardcover, 242pp; and the portfolio containing the CD and reproductions of Peggy Angus material. The CD contains interviews with Peggy Angus. The design of the book and the letterpress printing has been carried out by Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen at Incline Press in Oldham. Published in an edition of 350 copies, of which this is no. 69. The author, Carolyn Trant, was one of Peggy Angus' students. From the publisher's description: "The title of our book, Art for Life, is taken from a prospectus she prepared advertising her Community Art School at the Camden Studio Workshops in the 1970s and sums up Peggy's belief that art was as much about birthday cakes and bonfire celebrations as it was about museums. As those who knew her will appreciate, Peggy's output is much too large to be contained between the covers of a simple book. The pages are filled with photos, reproductions and prints. The book needs to be specially housed. In consultation with Stephen Conway, a slip case has been devised to hold the book and a specially-designed portfolio. This will contain four facsimile sketchbooks and a CD of Peggy taken from the tapes Carolyn made while working on the book with her. On the CD are a few of her stories of life in the 1940s, opening [with], of course, Peggy singing Raggle Taggle Gypsy O." A beautifully-produced publicati.…