Balston Thomas Ed (13 results)

Condition: Good. 1956. First Edition. 45 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered in removable translucent wrapper. Black and white illustrations throughout by Frank Martin. Black and white portrait frontispiece by Romney. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Wrapper torn in places.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, page edges foxed, no inscriptions, in a glassine dustjacket which is chipped and creased at the edges with minor loss at the spine ends.46 pages, illustrations on plates and in the text.

Hardback. Printed pages: 43. Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. First printing. Lacking jacket. Paper-covered boards with light marking and slight foxing. Good solid binding. Very clean text throughout. Inscribed and signed by the author to front free endpaper, he has also made a few corrections to the text. Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5 x 7.5 inches (13 x 19 cm). Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition thus. Wood engravings by Frank Martin. Small 8vo. Publisher's cream boards, gilt and blue lettered, a bit foxed to extremities, and a little mild foxing internally, though mostly clean, original glassine wrapper, this rather chipped and with a couple of tape repairs, good only, held in a plastic sleeve; "much of Susanna Whatman's Housekeeping Book was written in 1776 during the first year of her marriage to James Whatman, the papermaker. As Mistress of Turkey Court in Kent, Mrs. Whatman wrote down detailed household instructions for her servants, adding to them wherever necessary throughout the following twenty-four years. The Housekeeping Book, which is now published for the first time, gives a fascinating picture of life 'below stairs' in one of the great eighteenth-century houses.". Frank Martin (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,200grams, ISBN.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xliv., 355 pages, colour frontis., nine pages of half tones and over 1000 engravings, list of galleries holding works, list of books illustrated. Bound in the publisher's black cloth, gilt block to upper board, gilt titling to spine. In the original transparent wrapper printed in red. Original 6 page prospectus laid in. Minor wear, some spotting to prelims. 290mm. x 230mm.…

VG bright tight copy in publishers decorated boards. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Frank Martin. Attractive item. ISBN B001668KG8.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, from the library of Simon Brett, wood engraver, and with a signed letter from Patience Empson to Brett, loosely inserted (dated 1988). Glassine style wrap lightly scuffed. Green colour to upper face of page block, now a little faded. Binding firm. Brett label to inside front cover. Contents bright with no markings. Short introduction, followed by the recollections but the main body of the work is given over to the illustrations and artwork. 355pp. Interesting provenance. Further details available on request. Extra postage required for delivery outside the UK. (Ub5).…

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE COMPILER THOMAS BALSTON, LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION, octavo, patterned cloth boards, black lettering & decorative rule to title sticker on front board, deckled page edges, 24pp, plates, pocket at rear with plates looselt enclosed, VG ( light fading to spine and adjacent boards, slight soiling to rear board, owners signature in pencil to pastedown, light creasing to fore edge of plates in rear pocket).…

Limited Edition. Small Octavo. pp. x, 24. No. 33 of just 50 copies printed for the Double Crown Club. In paper covered boards with title to upper board. Internally clean and crisp, with noticable browning to spine. Very good overall. Together with an introduction and notes on the periodicals, as well as portraits of the authors by Albert Rutherston.…

Condition: Near Fine. dj. First edition, first printing. THE COMPREHENSIVE GIBBINGS Robert Gibbings led the wood engraving revival in Britain in the early twentieth century, increasing renown for the art form through his own strongly lined work, as well as serving as a founding member of the Society of Wood Engravers and owner of The Golden Cockerel Press. Published the year after Robert Gibbing's death, Empson's collection offers the most definitive gathering of Gibbing's wood engravings, featuring over 1000 prints with numerous engravings published for the first time. Sunned top edge, gently browned endpapers, still near fine, in near fine acetate jacket with pressed tips and corners. Publisher's full black cloth stamped in gilt, in publisher's acetate jacket, stamped in red, top edge stained green. Numerous black-and-white and color wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. 355. frontis & numerous illus. throughout (some full-page). original cloth (back cover bit rubbed). First Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A first edition of this densely illustrated title, in the original plastic dust wrapper. A first edition, with the original protective plastic dust wrapper, which is printed with title text. Featuring the work of Irish artist and author, who wrote titles on travel and natural history. Slotted into the work are two prints of Peter Reddick's Untitled Landscape, between protective card - both signed by Reddick, and one dated 1980. Th influential wood engraver Peter Reddick is most known for his illustrations in the work of Thomas Hardy and Anthony Trollope. He was a Gregynog arts fellow between 1979 and 1980. Also slotted inside is an additional print, small and unidentified, and a 1958 article on the death of Robert Gibbings. Featuring a colour frontispiece and one-hundred-and-seventy-fourdouble-sided pages of monochrome illustration. Collated, complete Bound in original black cloth. In original transparent plastic dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Moderate damp stains to boards and spine. Dust wrapper smart. Mild shelf wear. The odd mark to dust wrapper covers. Internally, firmly bound. Moderate strain between pp.350-351. Very mild cockling. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Very Good. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). book.…