Bussell Jan (41 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Sorry, No international shipping on this item.Ex-Library hardcover no dj (red boards) with all the usual markings, attachments, and library wear. Library stamp inked out on edges. Text block clean and unmarked. Tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, publisher's boards, dustwrapper, 143pp., plates & figures. First edition. Bound upside-down. VG/VG: clean and sound book with light soiling to the edges; price-clipped wrapper with touches of wear, fading, light soiling.…

Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with silver gilt. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Colour frontispiece. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Small bookshop label to front pastedown. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Boards are slightly bowed.…

Condition: Good. 1947. Second Impression. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good to Very Good with some foxing to endpapers in Good to Very Good DJ with small abrasion from removed sticker.

Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 163 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Inscription to front endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight forward lean to text block.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Faber & Faber, London, 1956. Hardcover, 143 pp. 1st edition. With drawings by Francis Gower and black & white photo illustrations. Nonfiction; a book about puppets. Very good with a blindstamp on corner of front free endpaper. Otherwise clean. Two nicks to boards, and rear board has a few scattered pale blemishes. No dust jacket. …

Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 163 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with tears, chips, and some areas of loss. Noticeable rubbing and marking. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Faber and Faber, 1953. First edition, 1953. Turqoise cloth, includes black and white photo illustrations, with dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and has some modest uneven fading, light edgewear, very little paper loss. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A Very Solid Clean Book With Previous Price At Top Corner Of Ffep. Otherwise Unmarked. Maroon Cloth Covered Boards With Gilt Title On Spine. Dj Is Complete, Not Price Clipped. Illustrated With Puppet Head. Sticker Pull On Tail Of Spine And Chipping To All Edges. Rubbing Along Fold But Dj Is Still In Very Reasonable Condition. Francis Gower (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Publishers cherry red linen-backed boards with silver puppet emblem to upper board. Original unclipped dust jacket with small loss to foot of spine and some edge creasing. Pp143. Hardcover, 8vo. Francis Gower (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. First edition. The spine of the dust jacket is missing. A good condition book with firm binding. …

Super 8vo 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 costs.…

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.…

First edition; 8vo., red cloth covered boards, hardcover; Bussell describes the puppets puppet masters and puppet theatres of many countries; a fine, clean, tight copy in a fine dustjacket.

hardcover. Faber and Faber 1956. in-8. 144 pages. Faber and Faber 1956. in-8. 144 pages. Nb de volume : 1. Cartonnage de l'éditeur sous jaquette, bon état, ex-libris et petite note en page de garde . With drawings by Francis Gower. With drawings by Francis Gower (illustrator).

1st edn 3rd printing. 8vo. Original silver decorated pink cloth (top edge dust stained, endpapers lightly spotted - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (small tears and nicks at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 143, illus with coloured frontispiece, b&w plates and with b&w drawings by Francis Gower (previous owner's neat gift inscription on front endpaper).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Faber and Faber, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 5 ½ x 8 ½". 143 pp. Very good in a good price-clipped dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected in mylar. Rubbing to the dust jacket's extremities. Previous owner's bookplate on the front free endpaper. The text appears unmarked. The binding is solid.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Jan Bussell, The Puppet theatre,1946,pp143, original pink/red cloth cover with silver gilt on cover and spine, original (repaired) dust cover contains black & white illustration and photographic images and one coloured illustration . Condition: pages; illustration and image printing remain crisp and clean, pages contain occasional markings and spotting, front end paper has an inked name from a previous owner. Cover; has sunning around the edges with a little fading and general shelf-ware, the gilt remains vibrant and clean. *DUST COVER poor condition* *Rare* a repair has been applied to dust cover, contains marks on the inside and warping, back dust cover half is missing and heavy chipping to front and spine. Otherwise a tight clean copy. francis gower (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Neat gift inscription else fine in fine dustwrapper. A book about puppets.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 152 pp., bound with dust jacket. Good copy with some ills. in colour, most in black/white. 24 x 16 cm.

First edition. 8vo. 152 pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (81730).

163 p 23 cm Encuadernación en tela editorial con sobrecubierta en papel. Estado de conservación: Muy bien.

[no date]. (Trade paperback) Very good. 144pp. The back cover has some spotting and there is minor rubbing to the front cover. (Drama, Drama, Pelham Puppets, Puppets).

Hard Boards. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. EX- SCHOOL LIBRARY. Hardback inJacket 1952 reprint. Sellotape residue on end papers & paste downs. School stamp on the front end paper with stamps for 1959. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref h512sid. Frances Gower (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. the jacket is scuffed and chipped. foxing. a bit marked. gift inscription. all pages are intact and legible. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 163 pages, indexed. Frontispiece plus 30 plates, 6 full page illustrations. First edition. The boards are lightly chipped at the edges, there is an ownership inscription on the front end paper and the pages are lightly tanned, else clean unmarked and solid. ".British director, producer and performer. Jan Bussell with his wife Ann Hogarth founded the Hogarth Puppets in 1932.is the author of several books on puppetry, including: The Puppet Theatre; The Puppets and I; Puppet's Progress; Through Wooden Eyes; The Art of Television; Twelve Plays; Pegasus Book of Puppets. He edited Plays for Puppets, and was co-author (with Ann Hogarth) of Fanfare for Puppets." (World Encyclopaedia of Puppetry Arts).…

Staple Binding. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. Paper covers rubbed and stained in places, staples stained, chip to front cover at spine edge, spine edgeworn and creased, some creasing to pages at head either side of spine edge, pp clear to read, binding sound. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1946. Pictorial dustjacket a little defective (chipped at the edges and age-marked). Not price-clipped. Decorated red cloth VG. Pages a little age-browned at the edges, internally clean & tight. No inscriptions. Illustrated. 143 pages. …

Gr.-8°. 163 S. mit Ill. im Text + 32 Tafeln, OLwd. (einige Stfl.) Ohne den fl. Vorsatz, ausgestrichener Namenszug. Insges. gutes Exemplar mit dem hübschen (allerdings etw. läd.) farb. ill. OUmschl. EA.