Hans Tisdall (78 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee. Tisdall, Hans (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. !st in this ed. No dj, spine tilted, shelf wear on boards, cloth wear and knocks at extremities, ex-libris label on front pd, foxing on eps and sides, otherwise good. 300 grams.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Goosie Gander Plays his Part This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Tisdall, Hans (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. dj w/c2nd printing; hippikng at edges, unclipped price, in mylar; gtay c w/gilt spine titles; maps on end papers; 176 clean, unmarked pages/ appendices/index. b/w photos; maps on end papers; dust jacket design by Hans Tisdall (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. *HARDBACK in good condition.Stated first American edition, 1959. Light red boards with gilt design on front and letting on spine. Lower right front board and pages minor bumping. Some minor shelf wear and fading at ends of spine. Some soiling on lower fore edge corner. Dust jacket design by Hilary Knight. The dust jacket has a moderate amount of chips and tears at the corners and the spine. Some minor soiling. Pencil notations on the half title page in the upper corner (1st.ed $15.00). Family tree illustrated end pages and inside boards. Hans Tisdall (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Firmly bound, card boards, gray cloth spine. Foxing marks mostly on the first few pages and on the closed page edges. Jacket is price clipped with light wear. Jacket design by Hans Tisdall (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 8vo. 252 pp., illus. Reprint of the novel first published in 1958. Book is effectively fine but for an un fortunate adhesive stain on the title-page where a review slip was tipped in. Jacket is faded along edges and spine. Tisdall, Hans (illustrator). …

Beige Cloth. Condition: VERY GOOD ( AVERAGE). No Jacket. First Edition. Grubby boards.Please e-mail for further details and don't hesitate to ask if you require pictures Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Hans Tisdall (illustrator). Signed By a "B.G.T. Elmes from.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. None. 1st Edition. Spine, binding and covers all fine, contents clean with no inscription though lightly tanning throughout and covers are a little faded. 48 pages.

Hardback, cloth. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Position at Noon: A Novel by Eric Linklater, with Decorations by Hans Tisdall. Hardcover, 1958, first edition, published by Jonathan Cape, London, 253 pages.Measures around 7 5/8" by 5 1/4" by 1". Dust jacket is a little torn and tattered with several chips out of it. It is also a little marked and scuffed, with some fading to the spine area. Pictorial green and orange cloth binding, very clean. Bumped corners. Signs of shelf-wear. Binding firm. Page edges a little browned and scuffed though quite clean. Page surfaces clean, with no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.Jo. Hans Tisdall (illustrator).…

AK. Galerie Vömel, Düsseldorf, November 2000 bis Januar 2001. farb. illustr. OPbd. 12 nn. Seiten mit farbigen Abbildungen. - 21 x 29,5. * Sehr gut erhalten .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Top of page block dyed black as issued. Some slight edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine very slightly browned with small 'skinned' patch at base (removal of old sticky label?), corners very slightly rubbed. Price clipped, small inscription in biro to front pastedown (G. Maggs? first initial illegibale) possible Maggs the booksellers' personal copy, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 351pp, illustrated. A history published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the publishing house of Jonathan Cape, by the son of G. Wren Howard. Jacket by Hans Tisdall (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Brown cloth, stamped in blue. Not Priceclipped (9s. 6d. net). First U.K. Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1943. Appears unread, fresh and crisp. Near Fine condition in Very Good (spine ends lightly frayed) Dust Jacket (protected by a removable Brodart sleeve). No chips or tears. Not a book club edition. No remainder mark. No owner's name or bookplate. Clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. "FIRST PUBLISHED 1943" is so stated on the copyright page. FPAA p. 220. . First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth, stamped in blue/Not Priceclipped (9s. 6d. net). Illus. by Tisdall, Hans (jacket art). 8vo. 312pp. Tisdall, Hans (jacket art) (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Slim 8vo. 12pp stapled into card wrappers with an integral dust wrapper designed by Hans Tisdall, which is very slightly rubbed and dust soiled. A very good copy of this ten-page essay, issued to accompany the first ever international exhibition of dust wrapper art. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced]. Hans Tisdall. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, xviii,258pp, owner's gift inscription on endpaper, edges browning, text clean and sound, Very Good / Good dustwrapper, wrapper spine browned, slight edge-wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition and printing from Thomas Nelson. In very good tight and clean navy cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. Very lightly tanned end papers. Top edge navy; the fore and tail edges are tanned. The text block is tightly bound and unmarked, very good, with lovely illustrations by Hans Tisdall. No inscriptions etc. Hans Tisdall (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Well-illustrated colourful children's book on the theme of architecture. Contents: The snail -- Tents, wigwams and huts -- Caravans and barges -- Babylonian, Assyrian and Persian -- Ancient Egyptian -- Ancient Greek -- Ancient Roman -- Romanesque and Byzantine -- Norman -- Gothic -- The castles -- The great wall of China -- Angkor Vat -- Old Mexican building -- The Russian churches -- Arabian cities -- The Renaissance -- Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren -- Baroque -- Queen Anne and Georgian -- Shipbuilding -- Victorian -- Skyscrapers -- Modern Scandinavian. First edition, first impression. Grey cloth back, illustrated boards, slight shelf wear to cover, dusty edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 317 pages. First English edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Hans Tisdall. A story about eccentric Edinburgh attorney. Publisher's card laid in soliciting their literary periodical. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. Price clipped. A beautiful copy. Tisdall, Hans (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some overall yellowing, spine browned, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, some overall yellowing and time staining. Not price clipped (15s), previous owner's name to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 256pp. A Latin American republic (Guatemala), rocked by revolution and violence, is caught between the opposing forces of industrial development and the ancient religion of it's Mayan ancestors. Norman Lewis (1908-2003), was an influential British journalist and a prolific author. Best known for his travel writing, he also wrote twelve novels and several volumes of autobiography. Jacket by Hans Tisdall (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks unread. 473pp. Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, 'The Night Watch' is the work of a truly brilliant and compelling storyteller. This is the story of four Londoners, three women and a young man with a past, drawn with absolute truth and intimacy. Kay, who drove an ambulance during the war and lived life at full throttle, now dresses in mannish clothes and wanders the streets with a restless hunger, searching. Helen, clever, sweet, much loved, harbours a painful secret. Viv, glamour girl, is stubbornly, even foolishly loyal, to her soldier lover Duncan, an apparent innocent, has had his own demons to fight during the war. Their lives, and their secrets connect in sometimes startling ways. War leads to strange alliances. Jacket by Duncan Spilling, lettering by Stephen Raw after Hans Tisdall (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A pleasing, association copy with Ruari and Antonia Maclean's fine bookplate of seals on rocks off a mountainous coast and with a presentation inscription to them from his cousins. Light cream cloth gilt, spine darkened and boards mottled, probably due to binder's glue or atmospheric pollution.Dust jacket rubbed at folds , price clipped and a bit frayed at head and tail. With a dust jacket design and a frontis and 8 further plates by the underrated Hans Tinsdall in a charming 1950ies style.Partially unopened at the tail folds. A very clean and well printed copy. Collates thus: xvii, [i], 258pp. Ruari Maclean is known as a typographical designer whose first employment was at the Shakespeare Head Press and later at Penguin Books. His Book collecting, particularly Victorian vivid gilt decorated cloth publishers books led him to produce several such plate books, among others. Hans Tisdall. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13cm, 290pp. Lilian Smith's debut novel which first appeared in America in 1944. Strange Fruit deals with the then-forbidden and controversial theme of interracial romance. It focuses on the blossoming relationship between Tracy Deen, son of prominent white townspeople, and Nonnie, a beautiful and intelligent young Black woman whom he once rescued from an attack by white boys. However, it is a doomed relationship and has tragic consequences. Condition: The book is in good condition. Some light tanning to the pages, a few patches of fading to the cloth binding, and some old tape residue to the endpapers but remaining in strong readable condition. The dustwrapper is chipped to the edges with slight loss but has not been price-clipped and is now within a protective sleeve.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition, 8vo, 258pp, illustrations Hans Tisdall; VG Copy in a striking VG Hans Tisdall DJ a little rubbed about extrems Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Tisdall, Hans (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First American edition. 8vo. xvii + 258pp. 8 monochrome decorative plts by Tisdall. Uncut. Cream cloth covered bds with gilt lettering. D/w darkened and frayed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First Printing. 4to. Illustrated boards. A very good+ copy with clean boards. Light to normal wear to extremities. No chipping or splitting to spine. Internally clean and complete. Small neat inscription dated 1947 to front endpaper. Endpapers original and unsplit. An attractive copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1947 1st edition. 104pp + 45pp of adverts front and rear. Very Good/None. Hard decorative boards with minor rubbing to edges/spine, minor soiling, spine a little darkened. Contents clean and tight but for very minor browning, very slight soiling. Illustrated endpapers. B&W and 2-tone illustrations throughout. Some attractive advertisements front and rear. The 8th book of 11 in the 'Contact' series. B&W and colour illustrations throughout. 'Contact' books were magazine type books containing articles concerning current affairs and the arts in post-War Britain. According to the introduction to this volume its contents 'range widely over the contemporary scene, but the emphasis is on stock-taking and re-assessing Britain's important new role in the world today'. Contributors include Woodrow Wyatt, I Deutscher, RHS Crossman, PO Wadsworth, John Midgley, Shevawn Lynam, VS Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene, Enid Marx, Margaret Lambert, Gerard Fay, Herman Schrijver, Peter Ustinov and Clarissa Churchill. As well as political items, it includes a beautifully illustrated article on 'Street Literature in England', and articles on 'Pubs Around Ariel', 'The Past & Present of Pantomime' and 'Window Dressing'. The cover art is by Hans Tisdall. Other artists include Feliks Topolski and David Knight. Includes adverts (many full page and in colour) for Player's Navy Cut cigarettes, Morris Motors Ltd, Yardley, Trans World Airline, Austin Motor Co, Myers Rum, Lockheed Aircraft Co, Jaguar Cars, Imperial Leather soap, Gold Flake cigarettes, Moss Bros, Chanel No 5, Philips Electrical, Nescafe Coffee, Peek Frean biscuits, Crawford biscuits, British Insulated Callenders Cables and Remington Rand. Topolski, Feliks / Knight, David / Tisdall, Hans (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, spine slightly browned and scratched, some darkening to extremities. Not price clipped (16s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 319pp. Scottish author Eric Linklater's (1899-1974) classic comedy on the finding of a hitherto unknown manuscript by Robbie Burns. Jacket by Hans Tisdall (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. Second impression jacket, third impression book. Hans Tisdall (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Good. First edition. Oblong 32mo. Original paper covers. Introduction by the artist in calligraphy, portrait, biography, 3 b/w plates, rear cover creased and with slight loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of bright unfaded fab jacket by artist and book illustrator Hans Tisdall (1910-97), corners rubbed and bruised, folds slightly rubbed, some slight spotting to page fore edges, not price clipped (18s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 414pp. A struggling actor's last chance becomes an unforgettable Roman holiday. World War II derailed John Andrus's acting career. Marred by a facial scar and burdened by a new family, Andrus works for NATO in Paris. A producer from his past shows up with an attractive acting job, involving two weeks in Rome and a hefty salary. How can he pass it up? In Rome, Andrus quickly realizes that the job is not at all what he expected. Bounced between movie sets, directors, producers, and women, he grows more uncertain of his future with each passing day. By New York author Irwin Shaw (1913-84). Jacket by Hans Tisdall (illustrator).…