Couch K a (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 249 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.63 inches. In Stock.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780199860586.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1946. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Comprising Cornish Seafarers, Cornwall and the Cornish, Cornish Homes and Customs. Introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Red cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and illustrations. xvi and 487 pages including index. Reprint. Minor spotting to front board. A few minor foxspots present, mainly to prelims and text block. Else contents clean. Dustwrapper is grubby with a few tiny chips, top corner of front flap has been torn away. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards are lightly marked, spine sunned. some light foxing to prelims. Pencil inscriptions in margins. Top of spine bumped with split to clot for 2cm. Good. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1stedn; 8vo decorated beige cloth hardcover in a good slt water stained and glassine covered dj. No names or markings to text. No stains to text or boards. Small NYC bookstore Wells Madison Ave label on rear pastedown. It appears that the author has written the title [Zhong Hua Juan Ci] and his name on the ffep with brush calligraphy, ow VG/vgdj: Xvii+55pp. English translation of classic Chinese lyrics, mostly of the Song dynasty ca 950-1200./cf author best know for his tsl of TAO TE CHING: A New Translation by Ch'u Ta-Kao ;Lao-Tzu & Ch'u Ta-Kao (trans); The acknowledged masterpiece of Taoist philosophy which is couched in a language of beguiling subtlety. Embraces universal wisdom and contains much insight. Third Edition. Buddhist Lodge, London 1942 (War-time). 94+2pp adverts. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Vernon Pearce (illustrator). First edition. A very scarce copy of this work containing autobiographical short stories of heroic deeds from well-known authors and celebrities, such as Earl Roberts, H. Rider Haggard and Winston Churchill. A very scarce first edition, first impression of this work.Undated, but according to institutional sources published 1905.Prize competition insert at rear of the work, dated 1906.With six illustrated monochrome plates, including frontispiece, by British artist Vernon Pearce.This collection of short stories was aimed at young boys, and included brief autobiographical tales of heroic deeds from esteemed authors and celebrities. This copy contains writings by popular Victorian author Sir H. Rider Haggard, former Prime Minister Winston Churchill and celebrated British soldier Earl Roberts.A thoroughly entertaining and enlivening collection of short autobiographical works that give an insight into the lives and minds of some of the most renowned literary and political figures in British history. Edited by the prolific Victorian author, editor, anthologist, journalist and composer Alfred H. Miles.Part of The Fifty-Two Library series. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth boards, with gilt details. Externally, very smart. Light shelf wear to boards extremities. Minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Several small areas of damp staining, but cloth remains bright. Toning to spine and extremities due to handling. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 1st printing. 4to. (11.4 x 9.1 inches). Beautifully illustrated with 24 fine tipped in colour plates, each with a printed tissue guard. The colour plates are mounted onto thick oatmeal paper within a decorative printed border. Illustrated mono title page, with red lettering. Illustrated with many fine, striking, mono illustrations throughout the text. Each page decorated with a floral design across the top of text. A very good copy in a recent fine binding of full dark blue morocco, complete with the original illustrated endpapers bound in. Spine with raised bands. Compartments double ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Floral blind tooled border on boards. Top edge gilt. Original illustrated front board bound in at the back of the book. Overall a lovely copy of this beautiful book. Among the very best of the early Twentieth century illustrated gift books. --- More photos available on request.

Hodder and Stoughton, London [1913]. Large 4to. 31,5 x 25,5 cm. 163+(1) pages. With 24 fine tipped-in colour illustrations by Kay Nielsen, with protective tissue paper. Publisher's cloth-backed bliue boards; top-edge gilt, the other edges untrimmed. In later, matching box. Spine renewed, reusing original title-label. Some foxing to boards and endpapers. * Kay Nielsen's first major work as an illustrator.

Hardback, Tall 8vo. 11.5 x 9 inches. Light brown/cream cloth binding to spine with light blue illustrated paper covered boards with green lettered title labels to front and spine. Top page edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. In very good condition. Later cloth to spine. Some darkening and wear to paper on cover, edges and corners bumped and rubbed, repair to paper on front corner. Some foxing and handling marks to endpapers. Some handling marks and tanning to inside pages, pages clean and bright, all tissue guarded. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 164pp. Illustrated with 24 colour plates tipped-on decorative bordered mounts, each with titled tissue guard. Later republished as ?The Twelve Dancing Princesses And other Fairy Tales.?

235 x 158 mm. (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). 244 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with pictorial illustration and titling in gilt, smooth spine with gilt lettering, original light blue printed dust jacket. In the original (somewhat scratched, soiled, and extensively repaired) cardboard box with illustrated gold paper label on the top and a printed label on one side. WITH 16 TIPPED-IN COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS BY KAY NIELSEN, pictorial title page, and several black & white headpieces, vignettes, and other decorative touches. Hinge open before two of the plates, but QUITE A FINE COPY, internally clean and bright throughout, the binding pristine, and the jacket about as close to faultless as one could hope for. The beautifully composed, finely colored, and entirely pleasing plates by Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen (1886-1957) are the stars in this collection of six fairy tales, finely retold by an esteemed folklorist and Cambridge don. Previously published (with one additional tale) under the title "In Powder and Crinoline" (1913), this work marries Nielsen's strong linearity to delicate coloring in designs featuring "highly stylized" people and objects. "Foxglove blossoms hang in measured asymmetry; princes and princesses stand on improbably long legs; and their garments billow in gravity-defying parabolas. The power of [Nielsen's] illustrations lies in his uncanny ability to retrieve a story's emotional effect on its reader and to recreate it visually in two dimensions." (Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales) An English writer and critic of Cornish descent who published under the pseudonym "Q," Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) is perhaps best remembered as the compiler of the monumental "Oxford Book of English Verse 12501900." Ours is an especially fine copy of the present work, made all the more appealing by the presence of the original box, which has done a wonderful job of keeping our volume in such a remarkable state of preservation.

318 x 229 mm. (12 1/2 x 9"). xii, 163, [1] pp. FINE GREEN MOROCCO BY SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE (stamp-signed on front turn-in), covers with single gilt fillet border, upper cover with gilt titling; raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments, turn-ins with single gilt fillet, marbled endleaves, top edge gilt. WITH 26 COLOR PLATES BY KAY NIELSEN tipped onto gray stock with decorative frames, each with captioned and decorated tissue guards. âTwo leaves with short closed tear to fore margin, slight browning to edges of leaves, additional trivial defects, but QUITE A FINE COPY, clean internally and in an unworn binding. This is an attractively bound copy of Quiller-Couch's third collection of fairy tales, with consistently winning illustrations by Nielsen. It appears to be a variant of the Edition De Luxe, with two more plates than the trade edition, but it is not signed by Nielsen, as the 500 copies of that edition were supposed to be. The cheeky, somewhat campy illustrations here strongly reflect the influence of Aubrey Beardsley, an artist much admired by Nielsen. An English writer and critic of Cornish descent who published under the pseudonym "Q," Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1863-1944) is perhaps best remembered as the compiler of the monumental "Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900." The fairy tales in the present volume are "Minon-Minette," "Felicia or the Pot of Pinks," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "Rosanie or the Inconstant Prince," "The Man Who Never Laughed," "John and the Ghosts," and "The Czarina's Violet.".