Ayrton Michael Illustrator (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Michael Ayrton (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in green cloth and housed in a sturdy mustard yellow slipcase. Gilt lettering on spine somewhat faded. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text and illustrations unmarked. Slipcase shows faint wear. 11x8; 184pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Three plays in one volume. Dark green leather bound boards. Boards very good with gentle shelf wear. Minor scuffing and rubbing to back panel. Spine square. Binding tight. Pages crisp and clean. Interior unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. With the Heritage Club Sandglass. In slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. Reprint Edition. In green leather with gilt to type/design motif and page ends. Ochre marker ribbon and endpapers. Tight and clean with previous owner's bookplate to half-title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Good Dust Jacket. First Edition. Stated 1st edition with no other printings listed. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Text and illustrations appear unmarked and clean. Light shelfwear, very light spotting to edges of text block. Unclipped DJ has wear and creases and a nickel-sized abrasion on spine. A very good- hardcover with good DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Michael Ayrton (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. With the Heritage Club Sandglass laid in. In fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1960 Capricorn/Putnam hardcover, VG/NO DJ, missing dustjacket, spine has slight cock, black lettering on spine reads fine, no markings found, tanning to edges of textblock & pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A superb copy, unclipped and in a Brodart cover.

Owner Embossed Stamp. Near Fine condition.

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, 60pp, illustarted, slight browning, clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper edges rubbed and a small closed tear on front panel, not price-clipped.

Condition: Very Good. 1961. First Thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo. a good copyAn imprint of George Macy Companies, Ltd., Heritage Press was founded in 1935. The Press printed more affordable classic volumes that were previously published by Macy?s Limited Editions Club and covered a broad range of topics primarily within the Western canon. In addition to Macy, directors of the Heritage Press included Cedric Crowell, General Manager of the Doubleday Bookshops; Frank L. Magel, head of Putnam Bookstores in New York; and A. Koch, head of Brentano Stores in New York. Though many of Macy?s other imprints, including The Heritage Club, The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, and The Junior Heritage Club, were sold by subscription only, Heritage Press editions were sold through bookstores. Macy combined his publishing enterprises in 1944, though each imprint maintained its specific target audience. The archives of the George Macy Companies, including both the Limited Editions Club and The Heritage Press, were purchased by the Ransom Center in 1970. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condition: Very Good. 1961. First Thus. Hardcover. Large 8vo. a good copyAn imprint of George Macy Companies, Ltd., Heritage Press was founded in 1935. The Press printed more affordable classic volumes that were previously published by Macy's Limited Editions Club and covered a broad range of topics primarily within the Western canon. In addition to Macy, directors of the Heritage Press included Cedric Crowell, General Manager of the Doubleday Bookshops; Frank L. Magel, head of Putnam Bookstores in New York; and A. Koch, head of Brentano Stores in New York. Though many of Macy's other imprints, including The Heritage Club, The Heritage Illustrated Bookshelf, and The Junior Heritage Club, were sold by subscription only, Heritage Press editions were sold through bookstores. Macy combined his publishing enterprises in 1944, though each imprint maintained its specific target audience. The archives of the George Macy Companies, including both the Limited Editions Club and The Heritage Press, were purchased by the Ransom Center in 1970. . . . .…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Ayrton Edition illustrated throughout by him; dark navy blue publisher's cloth; lettering in gilt on spine; vignette in gilt on front cover; this edition is limited to 1,000 copies of which this is number 242; xxii, Dramatis Personae (2), Half Title (2), 1-88; hinges tight; spine is square; top edge gilt; fore edges untrimmed; preceding text is an essay by George Rylands "On The Production of The Duchess of Malfi " and an essay by Charles Williams "On The Poetry of The Duchess of Malfi "; SIGNED illustrator Michael Ayrton at the foot of the frontispiece opposite page 1; light sunning on spine and at top of front cover. Michael Ayrton (illustrator). Signed by Artist.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. NOTE this volume is hardcover, it may be the deluxe edition as referred to with a different ISBN. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton. English verse translation by William Packard and John D Mitchell. Inscribed on title page "For devoted friend, rascal co-author- admired "chef" for the sauce Richard Philip-- John Mitchell 1978." FINE in dust wrapper with 1" closed tear at front flap fold, some soil to the rear panel along spine fold. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Quarto. xx, 184, (2)pp. Tan cloth over brown boards, brown spine label lettered in gilt. Housed in publisher's brown cardboard slipcase, light brown spine label lettered in gilt. Illustrated with 15 full-page tinted plates. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #1363), signed on the limitation leaf by Michael Ayrton. Slipcase with a 1/4" paint spot and extremities of fore-edge chipped & one top joint starting to separate, but still sound. Very good- to very good+ condition.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Paperback copy with sewn spine, no dustjacket as issued. In original envelope. 4pp. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no underlined or highlighted text, no notes in margins, no creasing to spine. Some rubbing and small tears to envelope. Booklet is very good, envelope is fair. (7/4).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Deluxe limited edition of 200 copies this being copy #145. Light foxing to prelims, leather chipped and worn at spine ends (moreso at spine head) top edge gilt, bound in full red leather, cover decoration and spine titles in gilt. A flawed but still atractive copy of this fine press volume. Images on request.…

Hardcover. Limited Edition #713/1500. Quarto, 177 pages. In Very Good condition and housed in publisher's Very Good red cloth slip case. Bound in publisher's quarter red leather and brown cloth boards. Brown label with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing at head and tail of spine. Small stain on front free endpaper. Signed by Ayrton and enumerated on limitation page in rear of textblock. Shelved on the Front Table. 1409718. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

1st Edition, one of 15 copies from an edition of 125; this number V, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR WITH AN EXTRA SIGNED LITHOGRAPH OF AN UNUSED VARIANT OF THE FRONTISPIECE. Original quarter morocco, cloth boards, marbled endpapers by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, printed on hand-made Pachuco Cadava paper from Amalfi. Some general light spotting but a Fine copy. With the Michael Ayrton designed bookplate of Arnold Haskell to the front pastedown. Loosely inserted are 1. original prospectus for the book, 2. letter from the daughter of Martin Shuttleworth, literary critic, writer and editor regarding the provenance of this copy.…

Total 3pp., 12mo, fold marks, pinholes in two,good condition. The letters illustrate how difficult it was to get money out of Driberg. [28 May] Ayrton is about to go to America and must "gather all available resources to keep things going here [.] Could I therefore have some of the money owing for the portrait of Constant? All of it would be splendid but even some would help." [7 June] He thanks Mrs Driberg for payment of half. [6 Feb.] "Forgive my bothering you but I am a bit pressed for money at the moment and you still owe me half the price of the Lambert portrait whihc is Twenty Pounds. May I have it?" Driberg has annotated the notes with words on the nature and date of reply, amount paid and amount owed. See Image. Three items.…