Edward Lear Edited Holbrook Jackson (9 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Jacket. First Edition. The copyright page has 'First Published in 1947'. No additional printings are indicated. Illustrated. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

hardback, 8vo, xxx,288pp, slight browning and foxing on edges, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, printed boards, Very Good condition in rubbed and faded dustwrapper with taped repairs to rthe rear.

HardBack. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 13th of 1st Edition, Faber 1947, same year as true 1st. Large 8vo. 288pp. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. Charming and profuse illustrations by the author. Bound in wonderful yellow green and red pictorial boards featuring Lear's illustrations to both upper and lower, complete with unclipped (12s6d) matching original dustwrapper chipped to head, with slight loss to head of spine not intruding. Now protected in removable transparent Mylar wrapper. A delight for reader and collector alike.

Hardback. Condition: Good. DJ; Price clipped; Heavy. DJ torn on spine. 288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Edward Lear (illustrator). Fifth Impression MCML. No dust jacket, decorated cloth covered boards have slight edgewear, small stain top edge, gift inscription in pencil front end page, pages lightly tanned, otherwise without flaw. 6 X 9" 288 pages, from 1947, 5th impression. Contents : Introduction - Edward Lear: Laureate of Nonsense by Holbrook Jackson; A Book of Nonsense (1846); Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871); More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, Etc (1872); Laughable Lyrics, A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, Etc (1877); Nonsense Songs and Stories (1895). All delightfully illustrated by Edward Lear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lear, Edward. (illustrator). First Edition. xxix, 288pp, bw ills. Decorative boards in jacket. Several very small chips to jacket, minor foxing to endpapers, prev owner name on front free endpaper. Published to celebrate the centenary of the publication of Lear's Book of Nonsense, this volume collects all of Lear's nonsense books in one book including A Book of Nonsense (1846); Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871); More Nonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany etc (1872); Laughable Lyrics, A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, etc (1877) and Nonsense Songs and Stories (1895). Size: 8vo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lear, Edward (illustrator). A Very Good+ unmarked copy which has no wear with dustjacket which has small losses and wear and is price clipped. Internally very clean and unmarked. Tenth impression. 288 pages. Illustrated throughout with Lear's original illustrations. A handsome edition includes all the nonsense that Lear ever perpetrated - the limericks, the longer verses, the prose stories, the alphabets, the comic botany; and Mr. Holbrook Jackson's Introduction supplies all that is needed in the way of biographical and bibliographical information and judicious comment. A1D Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Faber & Faber Edition. Hardcover. The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear. Two previous owner names to inside cover, one crossed out. Slight foxing to end inside covers. This collection of the Nonsense of Edward Lear forms a complete reproduction of the four volumes of nonsense published during the author's lifetime, together with a few hitherto unpublished pieces included in the selection called Nonsense Songs and Stories, edited by Sir Edward Strachey, in 1895. In this collectiin there appearwed for the first time the characteristic self-portrait in verse reproduced in the present volume. Illustrations throughout. 288 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

First Edition thus. Pictorial cover design by Barnett Freedman Fine copy in very slightly worn dust-wrapper.