Bate W J Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press. 2000 Hardcover. 1584560231 First edition 320 pages, illustrated [in both color and in black-and-white], notes on contributors. Fine condition except for a small line of sticker residue to front pastedown. See photos. clphE.

First edition (as stated upon copyright page). xvi, 320 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed with minor bumping. Dark purple cloth with vibrant gilt stamping to spine; a few small patches of discoloration at rear board's bottom edge. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. With List of Illustrations, Notes on Contributors, Preface, Introduction by editor Catherine J. Golden, and Index. Features eight essays: "Pictorial Shakespeare: Text, Stage, Illustration" by Jonathan Bate; "Taglioni's Double Meanings: Illustration and the Romantic Ballerina" by Sarah Webster Goodwin; "Politics of Humor in George Cruikshank's Graphic Satire" by Robert L. Patten; "Cruikshank's Illustrative Wrinkle in Oliver Twist's Misrepresentation of Class" by Catherine J. Golden; "Rossetti and the Art of the Book" by Elizabeth K. Helsinger; "Love, Death, and the Grotesquerie: Beardsley's Illustrations of Wilde and Pope" by James A. W. Hefferman; "Dream Blocks: American Women Illustrators of the Golden Age, 1890-1920" by Ruth Copans; "'We All Sit on the Edge of Stools and Crack Jokes': Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press" by David H. Porter. ISBN 1584560231.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover first printing in brown boards has minor shelf-wear, tight, bright, and unmarked. Unclipped jacket in new mylar cover has slight edge-wear to top and bottom. Previous owner's signature inside front cover. A very nice copy, not ex-library.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The Modern library 1960 hardback no jacket gilt titles to black blocks on spine and front green cover, viii 536 pp, neat name to fep, just a few pencil annotations and some shelf rubbing to covers Otherwise inside in GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour dispatch. If not pictured in this listing, a scan of the actual book is available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!