Brockway Michael (30 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: Fair. 1952. First Edition. 116 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Limited Edition no 75 of 300. Green cloth. Rebound. Ex-library with usual stamps, inserts and markings. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Condition: very good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 51, wraps, illus., footnotes, slight wear and soiling to covers. Electric Industry Restructuring Series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Sir William Russell Flint, R. A. wrote the Preface to this book with red cloth covers and gilt lettering on the front board and spine. This edition was limited to 350 copies and this numbered 338. There are 116 numbered pages followed by unnumbered pages with plates. The first four are in color and are tipped in the remaining images are in black-and-white and are printed as part of then page. The spine ends are stiff but the edges and tips of the boards show light wear.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited/Numbered. xi p13-116 (1p) (28 leaves plates) D-J (piece missing top, bottom spine, in archival wrapper) Short gift inscription FEP With reproductions in colour and B/W, #99 in an edition of 350 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Charles Knight, R.W.S., R.O.I. by Michael Brockway. Publisher: F. Lewis Publishers Limited, 1952, First and numbered Limited Edition of only 350 copies. Good hardback with no jacket. Boards are marked, rubbed and bumped. There is a stain to foredge with some red marks. Spine has some fading. Inscription and bookseller's label inside front board. Scattered foxing throughout. Binding firm. Last few pages have a little water damage where pages have been stuck at some point and left marks. One of the pages has a horizontal reaired tear. None of the plates or text are damaged. 116 pages plus Illustration section with 4 colour plates and 52 b&w plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Simon Brett. Peter Reddick. Jane Lydbury.Harry Brockway. Peter Forster.George Tute & Michael Renton (illustrator). Folio edition. This Foilo Edtion of " William Shakespeare's Sonnets " the boards are covered in blue cloth with a dark gilt decoration front and back with title in gilt down the spine. The text block is illustrated with engravings. This book is in an unread condition. The cardboard slipcase is covered in a dark red paper and is in very good condition. Book price includes postage- UK only.

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 22 x 29cm good hardback with dust jacket, price clipped and with minor loss to bottom right corner of jacket. Contents include techniques describing the water colours and oil paintings of the British landscape painter.

1st edition, hardback, 4to, 116pp text, 4 colour plates, 48 b/w plates, clean and sound, signed by the artist.on half-title, no further inscriptions, owner's bookplate on endpaper, red cloth gilt, slightly soiled, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Knight, Charles (illustrator). First edition. 116 pages in text. 29 x 22 cm. Limited edition, copy 225 of 300. Four tipped-in color plates and 52 in black and white. List of Subscribers. English water color painter. Flint called him" a good and important influence," in carrying out a fine tradition and sense of style in his art. Bookplate. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in nicked dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Charles Knight, R.W.S., R.O.I., by Michael Brockway, with Preface by Sir William Flint, R.A. F. Lewis Publishers Limited. The Tithe House, Leigh-on-Sea, England. 116 pp. + 52 plates (4 in colour). Small 4to. Ex library, with stamps on recto and verso of title page and rear pastedown. Original red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board, and publisher's wood-engraved colophon on title page (a fist holding the foot of the 'F' of the publisher's initials). The first 4 plates are in colour, printed onto photographic paper pasted onto the same cream, rough-grain 'parchment' paper the text is printed on, whereas the rest of the plates are b/w and printed directly onto the page which is of white photographic paper. Limited edition: 268/350. Front board slightly bowed, DJ price-clipped and very slightly chipped at extremities. Forward by famous watercolorist and illustrator William Russell Flint. Charles Knight (1901-1993), not to be confused with the dinosaur painter of the same name, was important for continuing the nineteenth-century English watercolour tradition through much of the twentieth century. This is a fine and rare monograph dedicated to his life and work.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A fantastic collection of essays in support of the Labour Party and socialism, and in opposition to the Conservative Party, published in the lead up to the 1945 British general election. The first editions of these work in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Previous owner's ink inscription to the front paste down of Brendan and Beverley, and to the front free end papers of Can the Tories Win the Peace? and Vote Labour? Why?.A fascinating collection of political pamphlets, written mostly to win support for the Labour Party, to aid socialism, and to discredit the Conservative Party. These tracts were written before the 1945 general election and offer an insight into political issues at the end of the Second World War and the rise of left-wing support.John Strachey (1901-1963), Konni Zilliacus (1894-1967) and Jack Lawson (1881-1965) were British Labour Party politicians. Michael Foot (1913-2010), at the time of the publication of his political pamphlet, was editor of the Evening Standard, but later became Leader of the Labour Party.The set comprises:Death Pays a Dividend by Fenner Brockway and Frederic Mullally (1944) Why You Should be a Socialist by John Strachey (1944)Brendan and Beverley: An Extravaganza by "Cassius", pseudonym for Michael Foot (1944)Can the Tories Win the Peace? And How They Lost the Last One by "Diplomaticus", pseudonym for Konni Zilliacus (1945)Vote Labour? Why? by "Licinius", pseudonym for Jack Lawson (1945) In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the fore edge, affecting the occasional page. Dust wrappers are bright and smart, with a little sunning to the spine of the wraps. Two small marks and two closed tears to the rear of the dust wrapper of 'Brendan & Beverley'. Fine. book.

1st edition dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 116 + (56)pp., col. & b/w pls., catalogue, index, Inc. 4 tipped-in colour plates. Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket with slight chipping.