George Emslie (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. Limited edition of 1000 copies. 1 cm moisture spot to front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Art. Limited to 1000 copies, not numbered. Green cloth covers very nice, edges soiled, spine ends bumped. Dust jacket rubbed and soiled, several tears, light chips. Interior clean and tight. Color plates tipped to pages.

Condition: Good. 1946. Limited Edition. 37 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gilt. Colour illustration pasted to pages. 1000 copies printed, unnumbered. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Sl. Edgewear/Shelfwear, Edges Sl. Sunned. Limited Edition Of 1,000 Copies Of Which 950 Are For Sale. P/O Inscription To Her Mom In Front. 12 Tipped In Color Plates Are Present. Strong, Tight Book. 33 Pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 36pp, lacks dust wrapper, no inscriptions, illustrated with tipped in colour plates all of which are present. Slight rubbing and soiling to boards, spotting to top front edge. Clean copy internally with little wear although front end rear paste downs are slightly marked, text and illustrations are clean and un marked. Heavy book which will attract additional postage outside the UK.…

Condition: Good. 1946. First Published. 37 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Colour tipped-in illustrated plates throughout. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Binding remains firm. Pages and plates have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Dark Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Please email for further details. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12". 12 Full Page Colour Plates (illustrator). Not Signed or Inscribed.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical Description: 2 preliminary leaves, 9-36 pages, 1 leaf mounted color illustrations; 27 cm. Subjects: English poetry; Poe?sie anglaise; Poetry collection. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. One of 1000 copies! The DJ has some soiling and there is a previous owner's bookplate in the book.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical Description: 2 preliminary leaves, 9-36 pages, 1 leaf mounted color illustrations; 27 cm. Subjects: English poetry; Poésie anglaise; Poetry collection. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1943 hardback limited to 1000 copies in near fine condition in a good dust wrapper. No marks to any page. The page sections close to the spine have a little discolouration from age, but it's not obtrusive. Binding is tight and even. No flaws to the red cloth boards which are bright, unmarked, sharp corners. The dust wrapper has some wrinkling to the front and is rather grubby on all faces, but no significant tears, creases, all intact and functional. A lovely copy. Items are dispatched the same or the following working day. Please note our excellent customer feedback.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Tight Firm Clean Copy - First Edition - No Signatures, Inscriptions Or Notations Discovered. Illustrated. Limited First Edition Of 1000 Copies. Red Cloth Hard Cover With Gold Gilt Titles On Front - Age Tanning To Front And Rear - Slight Edge Wear. Page 7 And 8 Has A Tiny Hole Pierced In Bottom Corner.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Emslie, George. A countryman's anthology / compiled by George Emslie. Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis Limited, 1944. First edition. Hardback, VG, in FAIR, clipped dustjacket with heavy shelfwear and nicks to edges and damage and loss to base of the spine. Spine tanned, and the picture on the front missing. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to front and spine. Binding strong. 1945 Christmas gift inscription to ffep. 33pp. sequence of poems on each verso, accompanied on the adjacent recto by tipped in art reproductions by Thomas Collier. The poems are by Norman Gale, Clare, Wordsworth, W. H. Davies, Mortimer Collins, de la Mare, Crabbe, Michael Field, Winthrop Young, Martin Armstrong and Will H. Ogilvie. Small dent to the top of first few pages, otherwise contents clean and bright. Thomas Collier RI (12 November 1840 - 14 May 1891) was an English landscape painter, mainly in watercolour. Although not a prolific worker or exhibitor, he is regarded as one of the finest English landscape watercolourists. Collier was industrious, retiring and often in poor health, yet financially independent, able to work without pandering to popular taste and to travel at will into the Suffolk countryside. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. We do not use AI and all images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. Thomas Collier (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition, ltd edition of 1000 copies, owners pencil signature inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback. Excellent paintings, etchings and sketches by Sir Frank Brangwyn, some tipped-in as called for. 44pp., ills., near fine in maroon cloth gilt in price clipped still near fine dustwrapper. Sir Frank Brangwyn (illustrator).…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 3 preliminary leaves, 9-44 pages, 1 leaf including mounted frontispiece, illustrations (part mounted, some color) 27 cm. Subjects; Great Britain Royal Navy. Warships History. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3 preliminary leaves, 9-44 pages, 1 leaf including mounted frontispiece, illustrations (part mounted, some color) 27 cm. Subjects; Great Britain. Royal Navy. Warships History. British Navy; history. British warships; pictorial works. 1 Kg.…

Cloth Covered Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cloth covered boards rubbed and stained in places, lightly edgeworn, spine and head of rear board sunned, previous owner's inscription to fep, some damp staining to head of rep, pp clean and clear to read, colour illustrations bright, binding sound. Size: 4to. …

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original navy blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel with gilt line connecting title to author. Quarto 10'' x 7¼''. Contains 37 printed pages of text with 12 tipped-in mounted colour plates on green card. Spine and gutters a little soft, corners turned in and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good/Fair. 1st Edition. Red cloth hard cover with gilt lettering - Good+. In DJ with flower painting on front - wear to edges/overall Good-Fair. 33 pages with 12 colour plates. Content Good+. Limited Edition of 1,000 copies of which 950 are for sale. (356g) Photo on request. As Books that Benefit gives the proceeds from the sale of this book to charity corrects postage will be asked for when more than default price quoted.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 3 preliminary leaves, 9-44 pages, 1 leaf including mounted frontispiece, illustrations (part mounted, some color) 27 cm. Subjects; Great Britain Royal Navy. Warships History. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 3 preliminary leaves, 9-44 pages, 1 leaf including mounted frontispiece, illustrations (part mounted, some color) 27 cm. Subjects; Great Britain. Royal Navy. Warships History. British Navy; history. British warships; pictorial works. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in dark blue cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine. Price clipped dustjacket with pasted-on colour illustration in new removable protective clear sleeve. 32pp. 12 tipped-in colour illustrations by Thomas Collier. Not library copy, no inscriptions, tears to dustjacket edges. (53/6).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. First Edition / First Print. Limited Edition of 1000 Copies, of which 950 were for sale. Hardback in red cloth boards, gold gilt lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 32pp. 32 poems. 12 tipped-in colour plates. Not library copy, two neat names to ffep, light wear to top spine edge. (9/7).…

Limited edition of 1000 copies. Anthology of poems about flowers with accompanying colour illustrations. 26.5cms x 18.5cms. Printed on green paper(war-time). Pp.33, poems with 12 colour plates tipped-in to facing pages. Red cloth, gilt title to front and spine. G+.

1st Ed. 3-44, (2) PP with 15 illustrations from paintings, etchings and sketches by Sir Frank Brangwyn: 5 colour plates and 3 b/w plates tipped in and 7 b/w illustrations in text). Original cloth covers faded with light wear, gilt title and devices on faded front cover. Paper ageing around edges, binding a little shaky but still a very good copy of a scarce item. 26.2 x 19.5. John Constable, Montague J. Dawson, Frank H. Mason, Sir Frank Brangwyn. …

rilegato copertina rigida. Condition: Good. Condizione buona. Copertina con lievi segni d'uso ai margini. Frontespizio e pagine di testo lievemente ingialliti. Tagli con fioriture. Sguardia con gore. copertina rigida 742 Buono (Good) . Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First Edition, First Impression. Octavo, 32pp. Navy blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Stated "First Published 1944" on copyright page. Solid text block, light wear to corners, a very good example. In a price-clipped dust jacket, wear to top edge, a near fine example. Complete with twelve full-page color plates. Inscribed "To Mr. Simpson from Mary R. / Christmas 1944" on the front free endpaper. George Simpson worked as the King's head gardener at Windsor Castle throughout the 1940s and 50s. Both Queen Mary and The Queen Mother were fond of Simpson. In a 1949 letter to her daughter, Elizabeth, the Queen Mother writes "I am feeling quite gaga with Xmas preparations! On Sunday we did all the Royal Lodge servants. then went to Windsor. + [George] Simpson etc." Simpson was well respected in the field of gardening, serving as a judge in the Olympia Flower Show in 1950. Queen Mary of Teck (1867-1953) was the wife of King George V and Queen of the United Kingdom until 1936. She was the mother of King Edward VIII, King George VI, and the grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II. She died one year into the reign of granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II. Inscribed by Queen Mary of Teck, the first edition of A Countryman's Anthology, compiled by George Emslie. (illustrator). Signed.…