Foreword Keyes Roger (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Second Edition. (1942) 302 pp. Original dark blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly rubbed. Covers a bit bowed. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Previous owner's name stamp on front paste-down and title page. DJ lightly soiled w/ wear and light chipping to edges. Approx. 2 3/4" closed tear at top edge of front panel w/ few short tears to rear panel edges. Illust. w/ fold-out maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Neptune Library Edition. NO JACKET. Hardback 1935. BOARDS ARE MARKED. Very tight binding. No inscriptions. SOME FOXING. TANNED PAGES. ref . Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref h6.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good MINUS. Neptune Library Edition. Hardback 1935. xv+233 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. JACKET HAS SOME LOSS WITH WEAR & TEAR. Front flap is not price-clipped: 5/-. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref WT2. Flotillas: A Hard-Lying Story by Capt. Lionel Dawson; Foreword by Admiral Sir Roger Keyes. Neptune Library Edition published by Rich & Cowan, London.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear. Complete with numerous illustrations, maps, and plans. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) 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.

Cloth. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. Spine tanned and rubbed and a little grubby, some rubbings to boards also. Lightly foxed, closed edges tanned, bookplates to front pastedown, front gutter cracked, otherwise text block clean and solid. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (cloth in slipcase); 25.5 x 35 cm; 2.4 Kg.; 389 pages with mainly black and white illustrations throughout and a few in colour.; LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 COPIES OF WHICH THIS IS NUMBER 445.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The slipcase shows wear marks, edge wear, scuffs and scratches; bumped edges; tear at the top right side; small chip near the bottom of the spine; some peeling of the laminated layer on the top of the spine.; and previous owner pen written name on the top right side. The hardcover cloth shows signs of wear, namely a wear mark near the top left side of the front cover. Interior with signs of wear, namely: the hinge is slightly loose but the binding remains firm; signed by author with dedication to previous owner on title page. Remaining interior with minor signs of wear. Good condition overall.; "This is the first book in any language devoted to those miracles of grace and ingenuity, the hashira-e, or Japanese pillar prints. The pillar print is an improbable shape, half a person's height, yet narrower than the palm of a hand. No culture has developed a print format that looks, to a western eye, so extremely odd and exaggerated, and none of the eccentric European formats ever enjoyed as great and lasting popularity as the Japanese pillar print. There is a tradition in Japan of mounting pictures as long hanging scrolls and displaying them in special alcoves. There is another Japanese tradition of hanging long decorated strips of wood, bamboo, textile, ceramic or paper on hashira buildings, free standing columns or support pillars partially exposed along interior walls. So it was natural and even inevitable perhaps, that woodblock prints would eventually be designed and used as pillar coverings. Yet this idea did not occur to anyone during the first half century of ukiyo-e. In fact, as Jacob Pins shows, the first long narrow prints appeared by accident. Pillar prints were discovered by accident, but htey flourished because they satisfied a hunger for the incomplete, a need for the imagination to dance with the printed images. Most of the books on Japanese woodblock prints provide beautiful illustrations that are an insight into the culture that lies outside their boundaries. But ukiyo-e has been a strangely odd and narrow field of study because many of the specialists who have written about Japanese prints have been sadly limited in their outlook and interests. Jacob Pins, the author of this book, is no narrow expert, although he has chosen to write a study which is strictly limited to a group of very narrow prints. A collector, a fine woodblock artist in his own right, a passionate enthusiast, a lover of his subject, an amateur in the fine, old sense, Mr. Pins was attracted to pillar prints by their beauty, their boundless ingenuity, their inexhaustible interest, their grace, and by great respect for the fellow artists who designed them. This respect broadened into curiosity, then pursuit, and finally into determination to compile an illustrated handbook of the scattered and neglected pillar prints." excerpt from the foreword by Roger Keyes. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. Clean no highlights or remarks inside. 412 pages with the index. in very good condition. no dust jacket.We will state signed at the description section. we confirm they are signed via email or stated in the description box. - Specializing in academic, collectiblle and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

LIMITED EDITION OF 100 COPIES - COPY No.688. RARE comprehensive illustrated monograph on the Japanese art of woodblock printing by Jacob Otto Pins (1917-2005) - an eminent German-born Israeli woodcut artist and art collector, particularly of Japanese prints and paintings. This book deals with Hashira-e, pillar prints known for their unusual size - usually half a person`s height, yet narrower than the palm of a hand. 360x255mm. 390 pages. Brown cloth Hardcover laid in illustrated slipcase. Gilt lettering on spine. Slipcase rubbed and dirty. Slipcase rear hinge upper part torn/cracked and worn. Slipcase rear upper edge, bottom corners and spine upper edge bumped. Two tiny light stains on front cover. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare and definitive work on the subject of a special type of Japanese woodblock printing, written by one the foremost authorities in the field, is otherwise in good condition. The book is in : English.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First English Edition. The memoirs of Churchill's close colleague, the Royal Navy's Admiral of the Fleet, published just as Churchill was about to return as First Lord of the Admiralty. This is a very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket; virtually mint, save for some edge-chipping and closed tears on the front face. The contents are fine. Rare thus. 8vo (373 pages, illustrated with photo frontis, 7 plans & maps, 23 leaves of plates.) (Cohen B65.1).