Edward Lear Quentin Blake (12 results)

Condition: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1998 1st edition / 3rd printing thus. Yellow cloth with multicolour lettering, similar slipcase, red endpapers. In-text drawings by the author, hand coloured for this edition by Richard Beards who also designed the title page and cover/slipcase. Condition: Near fine book in near fine slipcase. Light sunning to spine. Internally excellent. Very slight shelfwear to slipcase. Size: 9 x 6.5in / 23x17cm. 286 pages. Weight: 770g.

Condition: Very Good. 2004. 6th Printing. 286 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Pictorial cloth with slipcase. Colour illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Boards have light edgewear with corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Slipcase has light edge wear with minor markings to panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Edward Lear (illustrator). Still stiff to open in illustrated yellow cloth; about new but for inscription to inside front board. In near fine matching yellow slipcase. Contains 5 separate publications from 1846 - 1895; 286 pages.

HardBack. Condition: Very Good. 'Illustrations by the Author Hand-coloured for This Edition'. 1st Editon1997. Royal 8vo. 286pp. Double frontispiece and profuse coloured illustrations from original drawings. Very good internally, appears unopened and unread, clean tight sound square, no bookplate inscriptions or marks of any lind, clean crisp corners and edges, well held in joints and hinges. Beautifully bound in pictorial yellow cloth, featuring red yellow and blue wraparound illustration, excellent shelf presence. Housed and protected in like original slipcase, A delight for reader, scholar and collector alike, a welcome addition to any library.

5th printing hardback in decorated cloth As New octavo 286pp., colour illusts., Nice production. With Edward Lear's original Illustrations. In sturdy slip-case as issued.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Used - very good - an excellent copy - in a very good slip cover - no internal markings or names.

2nd printing hardback in decorated cloth As New octavo 286pp., colour illusts., Nice production. With Edward Lear's original Illustrations. In sturdy slip-case as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Nice colourful hardback book, bound in yellow cloth, covered in different coloured letters, comes with a similar design box, slip case. The book is used and in very good condition. Normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. The spine of the book has a few marks as does the box, just around the edges. 286 pages all intact, all pages, text and illustrations are in excellent, clean, readable order. The book was published in 1996 by The Folio Society and this specific book is the third printing dated 1998. Set in Bulmer with Horndon Display at The Folio Society. Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd, Frome, on Caxton Book Wove, and bound by them in full cloth printed with a design by Richard Beards who also designed the slipcase and title page, and coloured the illustrations. Another fine book from The Folio Society.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Quentin Blake (illustrator). First edition. A charming first edition collection of short stories, illustrated by Quentin Blake, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's full cloth hardback binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of nonsensical stories compiled by Quentin Blake, and illustrated profusely in his beloved style. Author's featured in this work include such notable names as Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Edward Lear and Jane Austen. Quentin Blake is a world famous illustrator and cartoonist, best known for illustrating the much loved Roald Dahl children's books, such as 'Matilda', and 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with little shelf wear. The original unclipped dust wrapper is in excellent condition. Light shelf wear to the edges. A few small marks to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean. Fine. book.

Condition: Very Good. Includes slipcase.

Hardcover (in Slip Case). Condition: Very Good. First Edition. This is a virtually mint copy of the Folio Society's beautiful edition, as issued, slipcased, without a dust jacket. The titles collected in this delightful volume were first published as: A BOOK OF NONSENSE (1846); 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 (1985). 8vo (288 pages; with Lear?s own illustrations, hand-coloured by Richard Beards).