Bannet Ivor (12 results)

Condition: Good. 1949. First Edition. 265 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Boards are slightly bowed.

Condition: Good. 1949. First Edition. 265 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Light thumb-marking present. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Rubbed dark marking overall, with some water stained marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. The hinges are in good condition. Photograph available on request.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Clifford Webb (illustrator). Single folded sheet printed a s 4 pages incorporating a specimen page and an engraving by Clifford Webb, very good condition, edges creased, fold creases towards the lower edge of the sheet, relevant pencil note on final page.

unknown_binding. Condition: Good. First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Good condition, in a slightly scruffy dustjacket with 1/2" tear at lower rear fold. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.

Condition: Fair. 1948. Limited Edition. 253 pages. Half bound brown leather with brown patterned paper covered boards with gilt lettering. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Copy no. 176 of 500. Contains black and white engravings by Clifford Webb. Clean pages and engravings with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and paste-downs. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Binding remains firm. Notable liquid stains to p144-145 but text remains legible. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor loss to spine ends; slight peeling to spine and board edges. Moderate tanning to boards. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Small surface scrape to spine.

12 wood engravings by Clifford Webb and 3 maps in pen and ink by Mina Greenhill. No. 128 of 500 copies (the first 80 copies were bound in full morocco). Printed in Poliphilus type with Centaur initials on Arnold's mould-made paper. Large 4to., bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in original quarter brown morocco with marbled paper covered boards, gilt lettering and cockerel on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine very mildly faded and edges a trifle browned, otherwise good. The text is an historical novel by Ivor Bannet about what Sandford calls "the true nature of the 'gentle' sex". Webb's engravings are vibrant and exciting as his black and white contrasts are far more marked than is usual. Booklabel of the American collector Clarence Hanson.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No. 462 of an edition of 500 copies. Printed on Arnold mouldmade paper, 12 wood-engravings, some full-page, by Clifford Webb, and reproductions of 3 pen-and-ink maps by Mina Greenhill. 253 pp. 7 ¾ in. x 11 ¼ in. Brown cloth spine, hinges and fore-edges, rest of binding is paper of lighter-brown shades over boards. Gilt titling on spine, fore-edge untrimmed. Some light tanning (foxing) to some prelims and to final blank pages. Rear paste-down has a small sticker with the name of a N. Y. bookseller. Lower corners have small bumps.

1st edition 1/2 leather Nice copy large octavo 253pp., frontis., illusts., No. 238 of 420 numbered copies on Arnold's hand-made paper. Bound by Sutcliffe & Sangorski in half brown morocco over marbled paper.

No. 40 of only 80 special copies, signed by the artist and author. 12 wood engravings by Clifford Webb and 3 maps in pen and ink by Mina Greenhill. Printed in Poliphilus type with Centaur initials on Arnold's mould-made paper. Large 4to., bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in original full brown morocco, with designs by Clifford Webb blocked in gilt on both covers, marbled endpapers, gilt lettering and cockerel on spine which is in compartments with raised bands, top edge gilt, others uncut, board edges tooled in gilt, turn-ins with single gilt fillet. Some very mild offset from turn-ins, darkening to extremities and some scuffing to the joints, otherwise a very good copy. The text is an historical novel by Ivor Bannet about what Sandford calls "the true nature of the 'gentle' sex". Webb's engravings are vibrant and exciting as his black and white contrasts are far more marked than is usual.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. The First UK printing published by The Golden Cockerel Press, London in 1948. Number '36' of only 80 specially bound copies signed by both the author and artist to the limitation page. The BOOK is in Very Good++ or better condition. Full brown morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with five raised bands, gilt spine titling and large gilt designs by the artist on the upper and lower covers. Gilt ruled turn-ins. top edge gilt and others uncut. 3 maps by Mina Greenhill and 10 wood engravings by Clifford Webb, 8 full page. Some discolouration and light marking to the outer fore edge of the front board and some light fading to the outer fore edge of the rear cover with a neat previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Loosely inserted is the 4 page publisher's prospectus. The book is protected in loose Mylar archival cover. A very handsome production - 'Clifford Webb's wood engravings seemed to me the finest yet produced by this master of black and white.' (COCKALORUM 181). More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Author(s).

287/420 COPIES, 12 wood-engravings by Clifford Webb including frontispiece, 3 maps in pen and ink by Mina Greenhill, pp. [viii], 252, imperial 8vo, original quarter brown Cape leather by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, matching fore-edges, marbled boards very lightly dustsoiled, bottom corner of lower board slightly pushed, t.e.g., others untrimmed, very good. (Cockalorum 181).