Bates Edward Ardizzone (31 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). Book Club Edition. First printing from The Reprint Society. In very good plus bright green cloth boards, red title field to spine with gilt titles. The boards are flat, clean and tight; spine and edges firm. Slightly tanned free end papers (mostly on the rear); date in pen on front paste down. The text block is in very good plus condition with firm and even pages; fore and tail cut edges foxed and lightly tanned, pages otherwise unmarked. Illustrated in b/w by Edward Ardizzone. No dedications. Without jackiet.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). Originally published in 1939. 1947. A few small marks to fore-edge but otherwise very neat.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator) (illustrator). 155 pages. Spine bronzed, hinges very rubbed and worn, creases to covers' corners. Some staining to back cover. Page-edges and margins age-yellowed, feels fragile, but first thus in Penguin edition.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). Limited Edition. This copy is in fine, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to burgundy panel on the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dustwrapper has some mild edge wear and is sunned to the spine so best described as very good plus condition, it has now been covered in clear, removable, protective film. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. My Uncle Silas is a book of short stories about a bucolic elderly Bedfordshire man, written by H. E. Bates and illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Bates's Uncle Silas figure, and many of the lineaments of his character, were based on a real person named Joseph Betts, the husband of H. E. Bates's maternal grandmother's sister Mary Ann. Betts lived in a village in the Ouse Valley, was born in the early 1840s, and lived to the early 1930s. The figure he portrays is Rabelaisian and robust, a true countryman of pithy and roguish character, simultaneously earthy and whimsical, crabbed and wicked, yet full of humour and "strong original devilishness." Ref DDD 3.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). 1st Edition. DW spine sl tanned and sl. chipped at top - now protected.

Book Club Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 190 pages : illustrations ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction -- Short stories. 1 Kg.

Book Club Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 190 pages : illustrations ; 19cm. Subjects: English fiction -- Short stories. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). 14 delightful Short Stories of Uncle Silas, including "The Lily", "The Wedding" and "The Shooting Party". Beautifully illustrated with B&W Ink illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Frontispiece illustrated with Uncle Silas sitting with his glass yarning to a little boy. Green cloth cover with Gilt Lettering on Brown leather label on spine. 189 Pages, 220g, 71/;2" Slight fading to cloth at the back and a little bubbling at the bottom where the glue has failed. Hinges sound & Binding firm. Previous owner's name on ffep, otherwise pages in very bice, clean condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. Originally published in the UK by Cape in hard covers in 1939. First printing of the first UK paperback edition. Spine a little darkened with quite heavy reading creasing. Reading creasing down the left side of the front cover. light edge wear to covers. Previous owner's name in ink to the first page. Browning to the pages which are otherwise clean and unmarked. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Postage charge will be reduced by £1.50 when the order is processed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Turquoise boards with some fading. DJ tattered at top edge, discoloured on spine. B/w drawings by Edward Ardizzone (B94).

First edition. Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

First edition in publisher's original new format single colour card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 7'' x 4¾''. Includes short stories by Arthur Gordon 'Miracle at Greccio'; Peter Paterson 'Grand Curling'; C. S. Forester 'Between Eight and Eight'; H. E. Bates (Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone - DIZ) 'The Place Where Shady Lay' and 'Silas on the Wagon'; W. Somerset Maugham 'The Facts of Life'. Minor rubbing of the paper to the spine ends, tanning to the edges of the covers and in Good condition. We currently hold in stock over 100 other Argosy Short Story Magazine titles. Member of the P.B.F.A. SHORT STORIES (Novella).

1st edition thus. Hardcover. Fine green boards, with very clean pages, short ink inscription on fep, in a cream but now rubbed dustjacket, with some extremity wear and short splits in the spine and front folds. Full-page drawings throughout by Edward Ardizzone. These 14 short stories about the eponymous 'rural reprobate' were first published in 1939, and this reprint is quite scarce itself.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: GOOD (BELOW AVERAGE). No Jacket. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Penguin Edition. Grubby cover , browned pages. POSTED AT OUR STANDARD RATES FULLY INSURED (UK) ONLY. Please email for further details Size: Mass Market Paperback. Not Inscribed or Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Hardback. No Dust jacket. Bound in Green Cloth covered boards with gold gilt lettering on spine and black ink illustration on front cover. First Printing. Very Good Condition. Tight sound copy with slight bowing to boards, small owner's inscription on endpaper, top edge faded toward spine, lightly bumped corners, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: G. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). 1st Edition. Boards are clean, contents also clean, free from previous owner's names or inscriptions. Dust wrapper is age-darkened with some staining to rear panel, wholly complete.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Edward ARDIZZONE (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. DJ browning, chipped and taped. Prior owner's autograph. Some foxing to the endpapers. Slightly bowed. Initial price intact (10 s, 6 d). Protected in an archival wrapper. More images and/or description can be sent on request. Condition: Good in Good DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). 1st Edition. 191pp. Green cloth with gilt title to spine and a vignette by Ardizzone in black to the front cover. Spine badly worn and frayed but complete, edges bumped and worn and a couple of marks to boards. Light foxing to eps, ink inscription to ffep o/w contents clean, tight and bright. Not a bad copy apart from the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good++. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Edition. The jacket, now protected, is chipped at the edges with minor loss to both the edges, the head and tail of the spine as well as the tail at the back. Also at the back of the jacket the head is bumped. The front flap has a Myers price sticker. In its protective sleaving the jacket looks quite repectable. Further tales of Uncle Silas.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illus. with b.w. drawings, incl. frontis. 8vo. orig. cl. Occasional foxing, else v.g. in worn and marked d/w.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First edition. This uncommon first edition, first impression of H. E. Bates' richly illustrated collection of short stories about an elderly Bedfordshire man, in the original pictorial cloth boards. The first edition, first impression of the work, with no further impressions stated.With more than 40 charming monochrome vignette illustrations, including a frontispiece, by the British painter, printmaker, and war artist Edward Ardizzone.Uncommon.H. E. Bates was a British author known for his realistic short stories and novels that generally focused on life in early-to-mid-twentieth-century England. Bates' work often also reflected his fond experience of being raised in the countryside. My Uncle Silas is an excellent example of this, as a collection of short stories about a roguish elderly man from rural Bedfordshire. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with some handling marks and light rubbing, in addition to a touch of bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Neat gift inscription to the recto of front first free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages, barring light toning and the odd minor mark and age spot. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Not Price Clipped. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Edition/First Printing. Now in protected jacket, not price clipped, in superb condition. A collection of 12 Uncle Silas short stories including:- Sugar For The Horse, The Bedfordshire Clanger, Queenie White, The Blue Feather, The Foxes, The Double Thumb, Aunt Tibby, The Little Fishes, The Widder, The Eating Match, The Singing Pig and The Fire Eaters.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. 119pp. Bound in blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with line drawings by Edward Ardizzone. On front blank endpaper is the Surrealist bookplate of Andrew Murray. Twelve further stories about the old countryman with the gargantuan appetite and thirst. Dust wrapper has a lightly worn along extremities with a tiny tear/ nick along back spine at top , else fine, as is book. Size 20 x14cm (8 x 5.5 inches) Provenance: Andrew Murray, Director of Mayor Gallery, Cork Street, London. The Mayor Gallery exhibited Ardizzone s work in the 1960 s . Andrew Murray lent his personal collection of books and prints etc. to the travelling exhibition by Middlesbrough Museum in 1982.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Edition. 1st Edition 1939. Wonderful drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Endpaper foxed. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Edges rubbed, creased and nicked. Rear and spine lightly soiled/age toned. Small loss to spine tips. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18076.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Edition. 1st Edition 1939. Variant wrapper without red bordering to front picture. Wonderful drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Book is very good+ and bright. Corner bump affecting internal pages ad front top edge. Contents good. Endpaper foxed. The wrapper is very good and quite bright. Edges rubbed, creased and nicked. Rear and spine lightly soiled/age toned. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18076.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). 1st Edition. 4to. Bound in green cloth in original price pictorial dust-wrapper, not clipped. 4to. 190 pages. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. On front endpaper is the Surrealist bookplate of Andrew Murray. The dust wrapper top edge has been reinforced with sellotape which has some old light creases and a small piece missing at head of spine, and dusty with some light marks. The cover is clean but top corner does have a bump. Inside the end papers do have a scattering of foxing but otherwise it is very clean copy. One of Ardizzone's earliest books. In the various stories about uncle Silas which have appeared in his previous books and in periodicals, Mr.Bates has, as it were, photographed his subject from many different angles: this collections of the stories, more than half of which are here published for the first time, provides a full-size portrait. Size 26 x 20cm (10.25 x 7.75 inches) Provenance: Andrew Murray, Director of Mayor Gallery, Cork Street, London. The Mayor Gallery exhibited Ardizzone s work in the 1960 s. Andrew Murray lent his personal collection of books and prints etc. to the travelling exhibition by Middlesbrough Museum in 1982.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The First UK Printing published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1939. Large 8vo., bright green boards with vignette by Ardizzone printed in black to upper board; lettered in gilt with decorations in gilt to backstrip, including publisher's device to foot; housed in the unclipped pictorial wrapper (10s. 6d. net), printed in black and pink; with frontis replicating upper board; title vignette, and a further 27 full-page drawings by Ardizzone; The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition. Some light toning and spotting to the end-papers with some minor bubbling to the lower paste-down; a few faded light green splash marks to the upper text-block which have not encroached onto the pages ; boards a trifle rubbed along edges, with some dark spots and bruising to the spine tips; previous ownership inscription to foot of front end-paper; the Very Good WRAPPER evenly toned, a couple of small spots and stains and light nicks to ends of the folds; one slightly larger chip to head of spine, but not involving ant lettering; some marginal light red staining along the front flap fold; unlike many copies, no loss of pink colouring to the upper panel. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition, with a H/W letter by Ardizzone loosely inserted. Dated 13th Feb 1948, the illustrator writes that 'I am pleased that you like my work' , that he is going away, but the lucky recipient will receive a drawing from him once he returns: 'when I come back I will go through what small drawings I have + find you one'. A book of short stories by H. E. Bates, loosely based on Joseph Betts, the husband of his maternal grandmother. Betts was a humorous, pithy character, with many quirks, and the tales are drawn directly from Bates experiences growing up under his care, and listening to his stories, in the Northamptonshire countryside. Some of the stories had previously appeared in various other books and periodicals, but 11 were written and published here for the first time, accompanied by Ardizzone s charming illustrations. Five of the stories see the title character relating past escapades to his rapt nephew, while others simply describe wild adventures, such as Silas winning athletic matches through trickery. In all, 'they reveal a racy old countrymanone of the most delightful creations in modern literature, a character rich and full-flavoured as the wine he loved, an embodiment of all the independence, cunning, and passion for the earth which characterises the English peasant' (wrapper blurb). The character of Silas later resurfaces in stories such as those collected together in the 1957 Sugar for the Horse, and the 1961 publication The Vanished World. My Uncle Silas was the fifth work that Ardizzone had illustrated for another writer, and was published still relatively early on in his career, after the publication of his popular Tim books, but before his great success as a war artist. Scarce. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Edition. 1st Edition 1957. Presentation inscription to his friend Bertram Rota. Very rare signed. Illustrated with line drawings by Edward Ardizzone. Book is near fine and extremely bright. The wrapper has odd nicks/rubbing to edges. A nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18207. Signed by Author(s).