Francis Rose Illustrator (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Hour Glass Book edition. Maurice Fridberg in association with the Dolmen Press, 1967; no later printings of this edition; 91pp. [v Glossary] w/"embellishments" by Francis Rose throughout. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; light wear to corners and spine ends, else green cloth boards VG, gilt titling bright and bold; illustrations and text very good. Unclipped (25s) dust jacket in VG condition, arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 36 pages. 8.50x0.25x8.50 inches. In Stock. Espanol, Frances Rose (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Collectible FIRST edition hardcover, 288 pps, index. Without writing or any marks. red orange boards with green spine, red and ochre font. Small repaired tear to spine top.Please see our photo of this copy. Missing wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. In orange cloth with green cloth to spine, gilt and orange to type and design motif on spine. Dings to three corners and scuffing to tops of boards. A few tiny spots/marks to page ends. Jacket is price-clipped with tiny chips to spine ends and corners, edgewear/short tears and tanning/spotting to edges of flaps. Some scuffing overall and small paper scars to spine and adjacent portions of panels. 1st Printing.…

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A fantastic association copy of the first edition, first printing, linking together two lesbian titans of the modernist literary scene of 1920s Paris. Signed by both Alice B. Toklas and illustrator Francis Rose, inscribed by Toklas "For Camilla Steinbrugge[,] A friend of a good friend Sylvia is a friend of Alice B. Toklas 29. XII. 55. Paris." The Sylvia mentioned here is none other than Sylvia Beach, the legendary bookseller and original publisher of James Joyce's Ulysses. Steinbrugge and Beach were longtime romantic partners. Toklas and Beach became friends shortly after Beach opened her Paris bookstore in 1919. Toklas and her partner Gertrude Stein were among the shop's first customers, and Stein was one of its first annual subscribers. Beach was directly inspired to open her bookstore in Paris after visiting the bookstore and lending library, La Maison des Amis des Livres. Upon entering, Beach was surprised to find a female owner, Adrienne Monnier. Beach and Monnier became romantic partners and remained so up until Monnier's suicide in 1955. Shortly after this, Beach began a long-term relationship with Steinbrugge. Toklas' inscribed this book to Steinbrugge during December of 1955, at the beginning of Steinbrugge and Beach's relationship. The two would remain together until Beach's death in 1962. Bound in publisher's coarse beige cloth with gilt titles blocked in green on the spine; green topstain. Near Fine with light softening to spine ends, a series of small abrasions to cloth at bottom edge of upper board. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light toning and edge wear, light soiling, small tidemark to foot of spine.…