Gentleman David Illustrations (5 results)

Condition: spine a bit sunfaded; else near fine in fine slipcase. Illustrated by B&W illustrations. 1st edn thus. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly sunned, not price clipped (£8.95), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 180pp, illustrated. Born in the mining town of Abercynon, South Wales, George Ewart Evans (1909-88), was a pioneering oral historian. In 1948 he settled with his family in Blaxhall, Suffolk, and through conversing with his neighbours he developed an interest in their dialect and the aspects of rural life which they described. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. With the assistance of a tape recorder he collected oral evidence of the dialect, rural customs, traditions and folklore throughout East Anglia. This autobiography reflects on his origins in Wales and his love of his homeland. Jacket and illustrations by David Gentleman (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardback copy in green cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Price clipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 214pp. Not libray copy, no inscriptions, embossed stamp to ffep and half title page. (). Gentleman, David (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarter black calf gilt with decorated cloth sides, DW, 8vo., 100 pages. Wood engravings by David Gentleman, Decorations by Asgeir Scott, Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, Maps by Sheila Waters. Designed and produced by John Lewis, nicely printed on differently colored papers by the Millbrook Press, and bound by Mansell. Small calligraphic book label designed by Reynolds Stone. A very near fine copy with just a touch of wear to the corners of the spine extremities, in a very good, slightly chipped original clear DW.…

Second printing (the first was in 1979). Signed by the author. Hardcover. Quarto. Some light foxing on the first and last page, otherwise fine in pictorial boards as issued. A wonderful story of Indian tigers outwitting/outdancing? a mad-hunting, rifle-toting Rajah and his cohort. Gorgeously illustrated in colour by Gentleman. Flat-signed by Hoban on the title-page.…