Ayrton Michael Illustrator (21 results)

- Hardcover
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Michael Ayrton (illustrator).
Published by Heritage Press, 1980
- Hardcover
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.Chaparral Books
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.
Euripides: Medea, Hippolytus, The Bacchae
Euripides; Vellacott, Phillip [Translator] Ayrton, Michael [Illustrator]
Language: English
Published by The Easton Press, 1980
- Hardcover
Seller: The Book Bin, Salem, OR, U.S.A.The Book Bin
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Add to basketHardcover. 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.
Language: English
Published by Heritage Press, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. With the Heritage Club Sandglass. In slipcase.

Medea, Hippolytus and the Bacchae
Euripides; Philip Vellacott (Translator) and Michael Ayrton (Illustrator)
Published by Easton Press, Norwalk, 1980
- Hardcover
Seller: Lost Paddle Books, IOBA, Albany, CA, U.S.A.Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
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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
- First Edition
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA
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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 o…n spine. A very good- hardcover with good DJ, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Michael Ayrton (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Heritage Press, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. With the Heritage Club Sandglass laid in. In fine slipcase.
Published by John Lehmann, 1950
- Hardcover
Seller: The Oregon Room - Well described books!, Phoenix, OR, U.S.A.The Oregon Room - Well described books!
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. 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.
Language: English
Published by Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1967
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. A superb copy, unclipped and in a Brodart cover.
More imagesEuripides, including Medea, Hippolytus, and The Bacchae
Euripides; Philip Vellacott (translator); Michael Ayrton (illustrator)
Published by The Easton Press, 1980
- Hardcover
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.My Book Heaven
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Published by Hutchinson, London, 1960,, 1960
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United KingdomBRIMSTONES
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Add to basket1st 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.
The Aaeschylus Oresteia; Agamemnon; The Libation-Bearers; The Furies
E. D. A. Morshead (translator);Rex Warner (Introduction);Michael Ayrton (illustrator)
Published by The Heritage Press
- Hardcover
Seller: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, U.S.A.Kennys Bookstore
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Add to basketCondition: 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.
The Aaeschylus Oresteia; Agamemnon; The Libation-Bearers; The Furies
E. D. A. Morshead (translator);Rex Warner (Introduction);Michael Ayrton (illustrator)
Published by The Heritage Press, 1961
- Hardcover
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, IrelandKennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd.
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Add to basketCondition: 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. . . . .
More imagesPublished by Sylvan Press, London, 1945
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, CanadaReeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB)
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Add to basketHardcover. 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; spi…ne 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
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.Nicholas J. Certo
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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-autho…r- 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).
Medea; Hippolytus; The Bacchae. Newly Translated. [SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR]
Euripides; Philip Vellacott (translator); Michael Ayrton (illustrator)
Published by Limited Editions Club, London, 1967
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. 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 Micha…el 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.
Published by Sylvan Press London, 1945
- Hardcover
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.Nicholas J. Certo
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Add to basketHardcover. 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 pr…ess volume. Images on request.

Published by Faber and Faber Ltd, London
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: CURIO, Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, United KingdomCURIO
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Add to basketSoft 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. Bo…oklet is very good, envelope is fair. (7/4).
More imagesTHE ORESTEIA [Signed by Illustrator]
Aeschylus; Morshead, E. D. A. [Translator]; Warner, Rex [Introduction]; Ayrton, Michael [Illustrator]
Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1961
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.Second Story Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. 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 Ayrto…n and enumerated on limitation page in rear of textblock. Shelved on the Front Table. 1409718. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
More imagesPublished by U.K / Frederick Muller Ltd, 1945
- Hardcover
Seller: Bookenastics, Devon, United KingdomBookenastics
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Rare to have all 7 volumes of this set. This is the fifth book from 'New Excursions Into English Poetry' series. Classic poetry & 16 Lithographs by Michael Ayrton. This is a cloth-bound 1st edition hardback from 1945 in good condition-the cloth of the cover a rubbed. (112 pages & 16 pages of illustrat…ions & 8 pages of introduction). The first book from 'New Excursions Into English Poetry 1700 - 1860' series is 'English Scottish And Welsh Landscape' / Classic poetry. With 12 lithographs by John Piper. These were edited by W. J. Turner & Sheila Shannon. // This is a cloth-bound 1st edition hardback in good condition-the spines cloth is a little rubbed & I suspect there has been a book-plate taken out. (121 pages & 12 pages of illustrations & 6 pages of introduction). The second book is 'Visionary Poems And Passages Or The Poets Eye' with poems chosen by Geoffrey Grigson & 16 Lithographs by John Craxton. This is a cloth-bound 1st edition hardback from 1944 in good condition-the cloth of the cover a little marked. (121 pages & 16 of illustration & 6 pages of introduction). The third book is 'Sea Poems' with poems chosen by Myfanwy Piper & 16 Lithographs by Mona Moore. This is a 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket from 1944 in good condition-the dustjacket is 'price-clipped' & the 'D/J' spine&edges are a little chipped. (120 pages & 16 pages of illustrations & 8 pages of introduction). The fourth book is 'Soldiers' Verse' with poems chosen by Patric Dickinson & 12 Lithographs by William Scott. This is a cloth-bound 1st edition hardback from 1945 in good condition-the cloth of the cover a little marked. (119 pages & 12 pages of illustrations & 8 pages of introduction). The sixth book is 'Travellers' Verse' chosen by M. G. Lloyd Thomas & 16 Lithographs by Edward Bawden. This is a 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket from 1946 in good condition-the d/j edges are slightly chipped. (120 pages & 16 pages of illustrations & 8 pages of introduction). The seventh book is 'Poems Of Sleep And Dream' chosen by Carol Stewart & 16 Lithographs by Robert Colquhoun. This is a 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket from 1947 in good condition-the d/j edges are chipped. (127 pages & 16 pages of illustrations & 7 pages of introduction). This is a heavy set over 2.2kg, so there will be an extra postage charge.

Published by Printed heading Bradfields Toppesfield Nr Halstead Essex 28 May 7 June 1954 and 6 Feb. 1955, 1954
Seller: Richard M. Ford Ltd, London, United KingdomRichard M. Ford Ltd
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Add to basketTotal 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 o…f 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.