Bernard Sleigh (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. misc. xvi, 153, (2, catalogue) pages with 101 illustrations (including 78 by named artists.) Binding tight. Top and bottom of spine worn; wear to edges of spine and corners; scratches on front cover; spine is toned; margins of some pages toned; penci…

Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight). Small quarto: blue cloth, stamped in gilt; 154 pages First Edition. Laid in are an 8-page promotional brochure laid in (some wears & browning); a four-page exhibition program; an unused Christmas card in envelope; and an engraving of the Empire State building (some browning). With…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket ( as Issued ). 1st Edition. Illustrated by Bernard Sleigh and printed under the direction of Leonard Jay at the Birmingham School of Printing. Decorative boards. Tight and bright copy, unfaded and clean. Fresh boards, lightly rubbed corners. Scuffed top edges. Sharp text block, tight…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London, J.M. Dent, 1926. First Edition. First Impression. Hardback. A very good copy. A rare fantasy work. Bernard Sleigh is perhaps best now remembered for his maps of Fairyland (primarily Ancient Mappe of Fairyland - though at least one earlier map…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Special Edition. 1926 Aldine House Hardback 1st edition 1st impression. Very good+ gilt decorated vellum binding by Frank Garrett of Birmingham, with his gilt stamp to rear turn-in. Decorative Title page and frontispiece - a woodcut by the author. Rare fantasy title. Berna…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Birmingham, City of Birmingham School of Printing, 1936. First Edition. First Impression. Paperback. A very good copy. Uncommon. Subtitled: being the further history of the lives of the Reverend James Manshull and his faery wife, as related in the ?Gates of Horn? With a woodcut engra…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. xvi, 18pp, black and white vignette on title page. Printed red cloth-covered boards. Rubbed spine ends. Bottom corners bumped. Cloth worn through on places along bottom. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. 4to. An elegantly designed volume with printed page borde…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Small 8vo. Blue cloth, lettering to front board and spine, lettering dulled, corners and spine ends with light wear and lightly bumped, boards a little mottled and the spine sunned. Light foxing to the prelims, small bite at the corners of p. 17 and p. 5, binding tight and square. No du…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Limited edition. Embellished with seventeen wood engravings by Bernard Sleigh & I.A. Ellis. Limited to 250 copies. (xiv) 114pp, 2 full page & 15 woodblock ills. in text. Presentation vellum binding, cloth ties, title on spine. Top edge gilt, vg condition. OCLC: 11895180, with no Australian librar…

ff. (16). 12 illustrations, engraved initials printed in green. Linen backed boards of green paper decorated in white, the title label on the front cover has lost one end with loss of the leaf device, the top corner of the rear board is worn to the card, a very faint mark at the top corner of the latter half of the text, the fir…

Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. Book measures 19x13.cm. xvii, 244,[1]pp, illustrated frontis. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt lettering on top board and spine. Cloth lightly rubbed, minor abrasion wear, slightly faded. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, light crease line, [ not…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The Gates of Horn by Bernard Sleigh (First Edition) A firm copy with mild wear to spine edges and corners. Sunning to spine. Mild offset tanning to endpapers. Owner's name to front free endpaper. Not price-clipped. A pictorial jacket with losses to uppe…

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Bright blue cloth boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine. Pictorial dust jacket with text. Both color and black and white illustrations throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Foxing to dust jacket spine and fore edge; chips to dj…

First edition. First edition. 5 x 6 1/2 inches. Oblong. with linen spine and green color pictorial paper-covered boards picturing a wonderful scene of deer pulling a carriage with faeries dancing about and flying over a rising moon, with a different or continuing illustration of the rear cover. A beautiful and very scarce allego…

First edition, one of 475 copies, this copy out of series. An attractive and uncommon example of work produced by the Birmingham Group, an informal collective of painters and craftsmen associated with the later stages of the arts and crafts movement. Bernard Sleigh (1872-1954) was an English artist best known for An ancient mapp…

Bernard Sleigh. The Gates of Horn, Being Sundry Records from the Proceedings of the Society for the Investigation of Faery Fact & Fallacy. London: Aldine House, 1926. First Edition. "A tongue-in-cheek collection of stories purportedly written far a (mythical) society, but actually poking fun at A. C. Doyle's acceptance of fairie…

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. {Size: 14.60 x 22.86 cms} Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded…

Full Leather Bound. Condition: NEW. Language: English. {Size: 14.60 x 22.86 cms} A Unique Premium Leather-Bound book for elite readers/collectors of old rare books. An Original Leather is being used for binding this book with Golden Leaf Printing and designing on Spine, front and Back of the book with edge gilding. WE HAVE MULTI…