Bentley Nicholas Illustrator (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Bentley, Nicholas (Illustrator) (illustrator). Reprint. 59 pages. Light wear to covers' corners. Page-edges moderately yellowed with light foxing to early and late pages o/w pages clean and tidy.

Paperback. Reprint. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Bentley, Nicholas; B. T. B. (illustrator). First American Edition. Collects all of the author's weirdly twisted & humorous guides to moral education for children in one volume, with all of the original pen-and-ink illustrations by B.T.B & Nicolas Bentley interspersed throughout the 407 pages. First published in this format in 1931, this is a 1941 printing. Octavo (7" x 9") has burgundy cloth over boards, blind-stamped with title & illustration to front/lettered in gilt to spine. Dark topstain. Condition is VG+: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages off-white with light tanning around edges, unmarked save for former owner's name/address in pencil to ffep. Endpapers show offsetting. Mild rubbing to extremities & slight corner bumping. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $3.00 price intact to front flap) is Good+, with slight loss at both ends of spine, chipping at corners, light soil; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

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

Condition: Sehr gut. Original illustrated cloth, xvi, 316 pp., small signs of tape on end papers, otherwise very good condition. an introduction by E. C. Bentley, monochrome illustrations by Nicholas Bentley. First Edition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 560.

See his entry by Ruari Maclean in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Vere Henry Collins (1872-1966), was an author and grammatical stickler. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. With Bentley's distinctive stylized signature 'Nicolas Bentley'. After thanking him for his letter he writes (apparently with reference to a newspaper article): 'I am sorry if in using the phrase "I am afraid" I ruffled your grammatical sensibilities. I used it because I meant it. I am always afraid of hurting people's feelings, and I know that sometimes the return of a manuscript must give pain to an author.' He agrees that the phrase is used to often, as a substitute for 'I am sorry'.