Craxton John Frontispiece (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. First edition hardcover in good condition, no dust jacket. Edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Rear board is scratched. Page block is tanned and foxed. Faint foxing also on the pastedowns and endpapers. Binding is sound and pages are otherwise clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. John Craxton (Dust-jacket and Frontispiece by); Joan Monsell (Photographs by) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Book bound in red cloth with gilt decoration on the front, gilt title on the spine which is lightly sunned, clean and bright and square. Hinge and text block firm, no spotting or foxing, no inscriptions or markings. Striking frontispiece by John Craxton and photos by Joan Monsell throughout.

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, red heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt nautical illus to front board, frontispiece, illus title page, xiii + 320pp, illus/photos, VG (light bruising & discolouration to spine & board extrems, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims, light foxing throughout) in d/w, G+ (moderate creasing & chipping to edges, heavy tearing & loss to spine & extrems- heavy but tidy archival tape repairs, moderate foxing & staining).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photography by Joan Eyres Monsell Frontispiece by John Craxton (illustrator). 1st Edition. Red boards and spine lettered and decorated in gilt. The jacket, in clear removable sleeve, shows slight toning and spotting to rear white panel; top and base of spine a little frayed. Internally no faults.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell. Jacket and frontispiece by John Craxton. (illustrator). 1958. First edition. John Murray. London. 1958. First edition. Hardback, octavo; red cloth-bound boards with gilt title and motif, dust jacket. xviii, 320 pages. Colour jacket, frontispiece and title-page device by Craxton; 25 b&w photographic plates by Eyres Monsell; sketch map by John Woodcock. English. 220x150mm. 0.6kg. Good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, short 2cm tear to top front forecorner, slight staining to lower edge of rear panel and base of spine, price-clipped; light spotting to top edge, faint owner's date stamp to front endpaper, light dampstain and mild cockling to the lower edge of last few leaves. Patrick Leigh Fermor's travel book on the Mani peninsula in southern Greece. Leigh Fermor visited the area in the 1950s with his future wife Joan Eyres Monsell and Xan Fielding. The book's focus is on the geography of the area, as well as 'digressions on religion, icons, superstitions, history and mythology'. Whilst his companions are little present in the text, Eyres Monsell's photographs richly illustrate the book. After their marriage the couple built a magnificent house in the Mani which is now owned by the Benaki Museum. John Craxton, who shared an affinity with Leigh Fermor for Greece and illustrated a number of his books, supplied the jacket and frontispiece design. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.