H B Mccaskie (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Grey cloth hardcover, dust jacket, light signs of age and wear. First edition. We ship fast.

Condition: Good. 1950. First Edition. 175 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages 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 with crushing to spine ends. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1946 First Ed. The Cresset Press, London, 1946. Hard cover. Book condition : Very good. Text colean with no marking. Superb illustrations. Covers are browned, spotted. Previuos owners signature insude cover.Page edges spotted. Text in English and French. Book will be sent by UK postal service. Bookseller Inventory #010272. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). N/A.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. 1950 pp. The book is in very good condition.

Condition: Good. 1946. First Edition. 243 pages. Pictorial dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over beige cloth. Contains colour illustrated plates throughout. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and mild marking to boards. Mild tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Tape to head of spine. Light rubbing and marking to panels. Notable tanning to spine and panel edges. Mild foxing to surfaces.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Notable for the 12 full page plates by Ardizzone which are clean and bright and showing very well. Some toning and very occasional marking to text but otherwise all in VG internal order. Cream cloth with bight gilt titling, a little marked to edges and lightly stained. Good unclipped d/j, faded and stained to spine, lightly worn to edges and toned to rear. 8vo. 243pp + plates. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator).…

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 176pp, pages browning, text clean and binding sound, no inscriptions, Very Good condition in rubbed and browning dustwrapper.

8vo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Octavo Hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cream colored boards with gilt lettering. Cover and pages show foxing. 244 pages. Illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Dual-language in French and English. A bilingual 1946 edition of medieval French poet François Villon's complete works including Le Testament and ballades, featuring 12 color plate illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, with parallel French and English text translated by H.B. McCaskie, presenting the 15th-century Parisian poet's darkly humorous and poignant verses about mortality, poverty, criminal life, and famous refrains like the snows of yesteryear in mock testament form. Keywords: Medieval French Poetry, 15th Century Paris, Le Testament, Ballades, Parallel Text, Edward Ardizzone, Criminal Poet, Color Plates, Snows Yesteryear, Mock Testament, H B McCaskie, Illustrated Edition. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition First Published in 1950. Original beige cloth on boards. Foxing freckles on spine. No writing. Dry fly fishing on the Wye in Derbyshire and on the Usk. Stories collected over 55 years. 176 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. English and French language cloth hardcover with gilt lettered front board, in non-adhesive plastic covered unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is marked and sunned. Edges are creased and nicked. Board edges are marked, and corners and spine ends are bumped. Page block head is gilt edged, and page block foot is rough cut. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). Used.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good -. Hard cover 1st Ed., age-mottled cream bds, Good, clipped d/w, spine missing, some edgewear/age-mottled, Fair, contents clean and tight, pp176, inscript. to ffep. A sound reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Good hardback copy with cream cloth boards and gilt titles on front and spine. Some fading due to age, otherwise clean and tight. No dustjacket. Parallel English/French text.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 243 pages : color plates ; 23 cm. Subjects; Villon, François (1431-1463) Poetry. French poetry 15th century. Illustrated works. Poetry, Medieval Translations into English. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Jacket chipped and toned (now in archival mylar sleeve). Light handling to cover; edges and endpapers toned. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated by Ardizzone. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book. …

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 243 pages : color plates ; 23 cm. Subjects; Villon, François (1431-1463) Poetry. French poetry 15th century. Illustrated works. Poetry, Medieval Translations into English. 1 Kg. …

Cream Cloth Gilt. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 243pp with 12 full page excellent illustrations by Ardizzone. No inscriptions and the dust-jacket unclipped with some scuffs and minor chips to top and tail of spine. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator).

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Binding tight. In removable protective plastic jacket. 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.…

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. pp.175.

Cloth Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some wear and rubbing to boards, ink inscrip to front p/d, light foxing to c/e, PP clean and tidy Size: 8vo. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition, octavo, cream cloth titles blocked in gilt on frontand across spine, in very good sunned dust wrapper in protective cover, illustrated with full page illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, parallel English and French Text, 243 pages. [QP]. ARDIZZONE, Edward (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardback copy. No dustjacket. Previous owner's name inside. Parallel English/French text. Copious annotations in English. Full page colour illstrations by Edward Ardizzone. 243pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). Book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. Bright first edition of this illustrated anthology of the poems of François Villon. The first edition of this work. Lovely poetry anthology by François Villon, famous French poet of the Late Middle Ages. Translated by H.B. McCaskie. These poems often deal with Villon's criminal behaviour and experiences with the law enforcement.Illustrated with beautiful coloured plates by Edward Ardizzone.Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, undated. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly chipped to head and tail of spine, spine lightly sunned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. A smart first edition of Villon"s vivid poetry, faithfully translated by H. B. McCaskie, with characterful colour plate illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. In the publisher's original cloth binding.Complete with the publisher's original clipped dust wrapper.This volume is a first edition.This edition features with 12 colour plates, including a frontispiece, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. Collated, complete.A vivid poetry anthology of poems by François Villon, a well-known 15th-century French poet, inspired by his firsthand tales of crime, exile, and imprisonment, translated by H.B. McCaskie. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight discolouration to extremities. The odd very slight handling mark to boards. The odd minor spot to rear board. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Very slight offsetting to endpapers with one or two spots. Dust wrapper, smart. Dust wrapper, smart. Clipped. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the odd small chip, more so to the head and tail of spine. Slight discolouration to perimeters with minor soiling to wraps. Spine slightly faded. One or two very minor handling marks. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to fore edge. Very Good Indeed. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ivory/Cream coloured cloth, hardback book, with beautiful gilt title impressions, both on the front board and spine. Comes with its own dust jacket, which has a transparent cover over the jacket, not price clipped. The book is in really good condition, normal wear, marks and tear apply consistent with use and age. Tiny discolouration to top half of front and back boards, more from shelf-life than any other form, hardly noticeable, but thought it prudent to mention. 243 pages all intact, all pages, text and lovely illustrations are in really good, clean, readable order. Whilst most of the translation is in English verse, there are some poems that are still in French text. Dr. McCaskie's scholarly respect for his text, his rejection of the fictions and falsehoods that have accumulated around the poet and his poems, and his integrity as translator, combined with the accuracy, ingenuity, and felicity with which he preserves Villon's meaning as well as his rhythms and rhymes-schemes, are such as to establish the claim that this is the first complete translation into English verse which reveals, not the romantic vagabond of novel, film and legend, but the real Villon.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 176pp. Buff cloth with some freckling to edges and small indentation mark to bottom edge. Name on free fep.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. A smart first English edition of Villon"s verse, complete with its original unclipped dust wrapper and twelve tinted plates after Edward Ardizzone. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.First English edition.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and plates accented with a single colour. Collated, complete.A lovely poetry anthology by François Villon, famous French poet of the Late Middle Ages. Translated by H.B. McCaskie. These poems often deal with Villon's criminal behaviour and experiences with the law enforcement.Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone, a British painter, printmaker, war artist, author and illustrator. In the publisher's original pale cloth binding. Externally, lovely. The slightest trace of shelf wear to extremities. Dust wrapper, very smart. Discolouration to spine. The odd spot to wraps. Light soiling to perimeters. Rubbing to small area of front wrap resulting in minor loss to paper. Slight edge wear to extremities, heavier to head of spines, resulting in one or two small creases and closed tears. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots to fore edge. Near Fine. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cream cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 243 pp with full-page colour-wash illustrations throughout. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light rubbing to the spine ends, not price clipped, 21s. From the private library and estate of Edward Ardizzone and SIGNED by him to the front free end paper 'Edward Ardizzone.' Member of the P.B.F.A. ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-1979).…