Ernest H Shephard (24 results)

Condition: Used: Good. good overall condition . Sent next working day from the u/k 1st class 0.0.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good DJ. 1st Ed, 1st Prt. 1st prt. Lovely copy of the biography of DAVID CARRICK, who represents the birth of modern acting in the 18th century. 278pp filled with wonderful b/w illus by ERNEST SHEPHARD (WINNE THE POOH, etc). Book is black cloth- clean & tight with attractive prior owner's bookplate on inside front board. DJ is very clean, with slight edgewear & sunned spine (lettering on spine not visible) Overall a charming copy of scarce title. Shephard, Ernest H. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Good condition hardback green boards no DJ. 439 pages good and clean with clear print. One or two spots of foxing. Previous owner written on fly sheet: W S Dinywall from Petr Weeks, July 1937. Many lovely illustrations throughout the book in mono. To mention a few of the plays: The Wicked Uncles, The Fire-Lighters; The King-Maker; The Man of business; The Primrose way etc etc. Ernest h Shephard (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Shephard, Ernest H. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. 166 pages. Thick white dustjacket has rubbing to hinges removing part of spine-title on bronzed spine, and to opening front edge, 3cm losses to spine-ends, some wear to corners. Clean light green pictorial hardback binding, small creases to spine-ends, small wear to corners. Ink name and a couple of numbers to spine-ends, pages very clean and sound. Shephard, Ernest H. (Illustrator) (illustrator).…

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Impression. 1934 First edition first impression, first collected edition. Size octavo, 470 pages. Red cloth covered boards with vignette on front cover of gilt bust portraits of Victoria and Albert, gilt titles to the spine, top page edges dyed red, illustrated title page, no dust jacket. Condition very good, corners and spine ends rubbed, spine faded, previous owners' names on front paste-down and front end-paper else contents very clean throughout. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shephard. Ernest H. Shephard (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Orange boards with green lettering. The binding is at best fair. Ernest H. Shephard (illustrator).

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Abridged from the complete copyright text and edited by O.F. Morshead with 60 illustrations by Ernest H. Shephard. Half-leather surrounding blue linen. Corners and spine-sides are dark blue, but spine itself is brown with 5 raised bands and gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Book is tight, square and unmarked with light rubbing to the tips and ends of the leather. Gilt top. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shephard. (illustrator).…

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Abridged from the complete copyright text and edited by O.F. Morshead with 60 illustrations by Ernest H. Shephard. Half-leather surrounding blue linen. Corners and spine-sides are dark blue, but spine itself is brown with 5 raised bands and gilt titles. Marbled endpapers. Book is tight, square and unmarked with light rubbing to the tips and ends of the leather. Gilt top. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shephard. (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Stiff softcover. Orange wraps with black lettering and illustration on front cover. Covers are chipped and faded along edges. Seems to be some faint tidelines along edges, but it blends in well with fading -- I almost didn't notice them at first. No other evidence of water damage or wrinkling throughout. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by author John Drinkwater. A bit of light foxing to first few pages -- interior otherwise is clean and in good reading condition. Simple, handsome illustrations by Ernest Shephard throughout. Please email with questions or to request a few photos. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. A clean, tight copy in a very good dust jacket. Very Light wear to extremities. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. An exceptionally good tight bright copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Gift inscription to free end paper. Presents very well. Ernest H Shephard (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Translated by L. W. Kingsland. Illustrated by Ernest H Shephard. Published by The Oxford University Press in 1965. Hardcover. Size: 8 1/4 x 6 inches. Page number: 327 . The stories include familiar tales such as Thumbelina, The Tinder Box, The Snow Queen and The Princess and the Pea; also less well known stories such as The Flying Trunk, The Teapot, The Storks, Little Ada's Flowers and The Sweethearts. 32 stories in all. Illustrated with full page colour plates and black and white illustrations. Condition of book: Very Good. The green cloth boards are clean; only slightly rubbed at the extremities. The binding is tight. The pages are a little thumbed. There is one dark mark on the end block. Condition of jacket: Very Good. There is loss to the bottom of the spine in particular and a crease across the front. Ernest H Shephard (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Mr. Punch's County Songs; by E. V. Lucas; Illustrated by Ernest H. Shephard; Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, first published in 1928. Published in Association with the proprietors of "Punch." Printed in Great Britain. From the Notes to the Verses and Pictures - The verses and pictures in this book appeared in Punch in 1926-28 and are collected by the kind permission of the proprietors of that paper. The notes then go on to provide a bit of background information on the contents of the material for each county. Edward Verrall Lucas, (1868 - 1938) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor. Lucas joined the staff of the humorous magazine Punch in 1904, and remained there for the rest of his life. He was a prolific writer, most celebrated for his short essays, but he also produced verses, novels and plays. From 1908 to 1924 Lucas combined his work as a writer with that of publisher's reader for Methuen and Co. In 1924 he was appointed chairman of the company. Ernest Howard Shepard OBE MC (1879 - 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic animal and soft toy characters in The Wind in the Willows and Winnie-the-Pooh. Throughout his military service in WWI , he had been contributing to Punch. He was hired as a regular staff cartoonist in 1921 and became lead cartoonist in 1945. This very large book, 92 pages, is in very-good condition. It is a sturdy, well-made book but is missing the dust jacket. The illustrations are delightful. Ernest H. Shepard (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Previous owner's inscription dated 1972. Some rubbing to edges of dust-jacket. Some creasing to dust-jacket. Minor dampstain to tail of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 1971 edition. 262, [2 (blank)] pages. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Blind-stamped illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 234 x 152mm. Colour illustrated maps on endpapers. Colour illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard throughout, some full-page. "The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home." - the opening sentence. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. Good; very close to Very Good; contents Near Fine. See scans and description. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.,1931. 'Christmas Poems by John Drinkwater', 1931 First Edition. Cover illustration and six interior illustrations (one matching cover) in gravure by Ernest H.Shephard. Octavo, illustrated adhered orange-russet wraps (paper over thin cardboard double core by The National [British] Council for the Preservation of Eyesight - see scan), 19 pp. Six Christmas poems by English poet and dramatist John Drinkwater, each with one of the illustrations. Covering paper shows chipping and soil (see scans) to a degree which does not permit a Very Good grade, though this example is quite close to that. Contents are Fine. See all scans. Quite scarce. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course; not a bag. L200.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Stated Second Edition bound in blue cloth with gilt stamping on the covers and spine. The covers show faint scuffing/spotted soiling, and some wrinkling to the cloth on the lower cover, light wear to the edges and joints, and rubbing to the corners and spine-ends. There is small gash to the outer edge of the lower cover. The text-block is beginning to loosen a bit at a few spots. The contnets are bright and clean with illustrations. There is a small tear to the bottom, outer corner of the rear free end-page. 1924 Christmas gift inscription on the ffep. Illustrated by Ernest H. Shephard (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published by Methuen and Co Ltd in 1961, here is the first hardback printing of Ernest H. Shepard's DRAWN FROM LIFE. Blue cloth binding, 227 profusely illustrated pages, the book and dust jacket are in good condition with the stampings and markings one might expect from an ex-library copy such as this. There is also some minor end paper spotting and some minor fading to the cloth edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Price unclipped. No inscriptions. Clean and tight copy. Ernest H. Shephard (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Eleventh Printing. Some light scuffing to soft cover spine. Front corners are bumped at top and bottom. No owner's names. No writing. A couple pages had folded at corners so they may have creases. Binding is slightly curved from sitting on bookshelf. This book is not paginated. Ernest H. Shephard (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Orange boards and spine lettered in gilt, the spine with two finger smudges; a 5 cm verttical split at base of spine's front hinge hardly affecting internal endpaper. Soiled, unclipped brown and blue jacket has small loss at head and base of spine and two 5 mm closed tears on top edge. Internally offsetting to free endpapers with name and date written on ffep. Clean contents. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ernest H. Shephard (illustrator).…

262 pp. Tall Octavo. Bound in full polished green morocco. Spine ruled in 6 compartments. Blind decoration with gilt titles. Gilt decoration on front board. All edges gilt. Attractive decorative map endpapers. Copy 148/250. Colour illustrations throughout. A fine clean copy in the original paper covered slipcase. Originally illustrated by Shephard in black and white for the 1931 printing of Kenneth Grahame's classic tall. The artist redrew the illustrations based on those originals, adding colour for the first time. The final result is striking indeed. Very uncommon in this limited edition.…

First Edition. A Near fine copy of this large, 4to sized book. No inscriptions. Published on behalf of the Royal Artillery Benevolent Fund. Illustrated with hundreds of personnel photos and 108 black and white illustrations. Color plates from drawings by Ernest H. Shephard, known for his illustrations of Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh Stories. From the private collection of a gentleman World War Two Burma Campaign veteran. Price negotiable. Ernest H. Shephard (illustrator).…

Signed limited edition of this children's classic, one of only 300 signed numbered copies signed by illustrator Ernest H. Shepard, this is number 90. Octavo, original publisher's full morocco with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt vignette of Christopher Robin and Winne the Pooh to the front panel, all edges gilt, cartographic endpapers and color illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. Signed by Ernest H. Shepard. Fine in a near fine slipcase. An exceptional example. âMilneâs Winnie-the-Pooh has been considered a classic of childrenâs literature almost since its publicationâ (Cooper & Cooper). In 1925, A.A. Milne purchased âa Sussex farmhouse for use as a weekend and holiday alternative to the familyâs London home⦠[that would] provide the setting for the stories he now started to write about [his son] Christopherâs toys⦠Winnie-the-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner [its companion volume, published 1928] are, on their own terms, more successful as works written for children than anything else produced during childrenâs literatureâs Golden Ageâ (Carpenter). âErnest H. Shepardâs illustrations, modeled after the actual toys, show character and movement in simple line vignettes, which add so much to the books that most people consider them to be inseparable from the textsâ (Silvey).…