Harrison Ada Robert Austin (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Robert Austin (illustrator). In a grey cloth hardcover with red titles to spine. With an unclipped dust jacket with red and black titles to spine and front and a black and white drawing to the front. 200 pp. with 11 black and white drawings. The book is in good + condition. There is very minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover and the binding is tight. There are the ownership details of a T.A.N.S nurse dated 1944 to the ffep. There is light foxing to the feps and fore edge and a small spot to one page, otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is fair with and number of chips, tears and creases to the extremities. There is tanning, particularly to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Plates, Initials, Illustrations In Text (illustrator). 1st Edition. X, 150 Pp. Cloth, Gilt And Stamped In Blind. One Of 1050 Copies Of The First Printing, On Laid Paper; 105 Copies Were Also Printed, On Handmade Paper. Near Fine, Gilt Brilliant, Very Slight And Even Toning To Endpapers. Dj In Gray Paperpriced 10S6d, , Wear With Small Losses At Corners, Some Darkening To Spine And Edges.

Hardcover. Robert Austin (illustrator). Limited Edition. 150p. Ltd. 1st ed. A tan cloth hardcover book in very good condition. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Both endpapers tanned and lightly foxed. Spine slightly tanned. Otherwise clean and tight. Limited first edition; one of 1155 available copies. St. Bernardino of Siena (1380-1444) was a Franciscan priest known for his preaching and missionary work in Italy. Illustrated in black and white by Robert Austin.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. AUSTIN, Robert (illustrator). New edition. Small format paper-backed pictorial boards with red cloth spine in matching dustwrapper; colour ills. Small mark to front cover; toning to pages. Dustwrapper lightly toned. Lucy the nanny recalls her childhood in the country.

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 199 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Cities of Umbria --Perugia --Gubbio--Assisi--Orvieto--Todi-- Spoleto. Subjects; Cities and towns Italy Umbria. Cities and towns Umbria. Cities and towns Italy Umbria. Cities. Description. History. Umbria (Italy) Description and travel. Italy. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Austin, Robert (illustrator). Good condition. Number One of the Tally-Ho Books. Pictorial card wraps. Colour illustrations. Tombo is a monkey. 47 pages. 7" x 4.5". Spine and corners grubby. Covers creased and grubby. Closed tear to the top of one page. Some grubby marks. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardbound with dust jacket, Oxford University Press, no date stated. Stray mark on front free endpaper, front hinge opening for about 1.5 inches. No text markings noted. Jacket with edge wear, aging. Ships from the United States.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Austin, Robert (illustrator). Number One of the Tally-Ho Books for Children. 47pp with colour illustrations by Robert Austin. Tombo is slightly naughty monkey, sent to sea for pushing his brothers, before he makes it home and doesn?t plague his brothers again. A well loved book with wear and grubbiness to the covers, previous owner?s bookplate on front pastedown. Undated vintage children?s book. Circa 1940s.

Original Wraps. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Austin, Robert (illustrator). First Edition. A very rare and charming childrens' book with around 35 pages all with red and green illustrations. The backstrip is worn to the cloth but still strong. The boards are rubbed on the edges. One or two of the gatherings/hinges are weak but all holding. Internally very clean with minimal marks. All in all a good copy of this very rare children's book. Size: 12mo. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Robert S. Austin (illustrator). First Edition. This copy is in near fine, unmarked condition bound in tan cloth covered boards with black titling to the spine and decoration to the upper board. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. A dustwrapper is not present. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. 24 full-page plates from drawings by Robert Austin, A.R.E., R.S., with a sketch map of Tuscany. Includes chapters on Pisa, Lucca, Prato, Arezzo, Cortona, San Gimignano, Siena, Ref QQ 2.

First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 199 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill., map ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Cities of Umbria --Perugia --Gubbio--Assisi--Orvieto--Todi-- Spoleto. Subjects; Cities and towns Italy Umbria. Cities and towns Umbria. Cities and towns Italy Umbria. Cities. Description. History. Umbria (Italy) Description and travel. Italy. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. A Story for a Little Girl. Small format. Backstrip is split to one side with slight loss to top. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Original publisher's light-brown cloth hardback, gilt title spine, blindstamped ornament frontcover, large 8vo: frontispiece, title-page with illustrated & ornamental borders, x, [ij], 150pp., [ij], plates, initial letters, head & tail-peaces, colophon. Untrimmed. Very fine copy. 1155 copies printed. This is one of 1050 copies on Antique Laid Paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Robert Austin. (illustrator). A firm book, cover has some marks and wear. 200 pages. First 30 pages have insect nibbles on edge.

Condition: Fine. First thus edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards with crimson cloth spine. 8vo. 6½'' x 5''. Contains unpaginated printed pages of rhyming text with colour illustrations throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0859675246 CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

H/c Cloth. Damaged, Now protected. Reprint. 7 1/2" x 5". Pn 200, b/w drawings, original owner's name and property fep, only front half of d/j, which shows a drawing of a nursing sister feeding a wounded soldier. Forward by H. M. Queen Mary. The letters, accounts and extracts from diaries in the book were written by Army Sisters on active service. Top edge of pages foxed otherwise very good.

Hard Cloth Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. Robert Austin (illustrator). First Edition. Beige embossed cloth boards, slightly dulled gilt titling on spine. A little wear to cloth edge. Book plate on f. paste down. x, 150 pages clean and tight. Size: Lge 8vo.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 150 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Bernardino da Siena, Saint (1380-1444). Sermons, Italian ; Early works to 1800 ; Translations into English. Homiletical illustrations. Stories. Homiletical illustrations. Genre; Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Austin, Robert (illustrator). 1st Edition. Black & white illustrations. Rough-cut pages. A Violet Needham bookplate to front pastedown. Some ghosting to endpapers otherwise very clean inside. Firm and clean beige cloth boards with some edge wear, mainly to lower fore corners.

FIRST EDITION, octavo, beige buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, publisher's blind stamp motif to front board, deckled page edges, illus prelims, x + 150pp, illus, VG (light to moderate soiling/discolouration to spine & boards, moderate to heavy tanning & light foxing to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps & prelims/terminals, occasioanl light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, G+ (v heavy chipping, tanning & loss to spine, heavy creasing & chipping to edges- some minor loss, light to moderate tanning & foxing, moderate water staining to base of spine & covers).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. AUSTIN, Robert (illustrator). Undated [1945]. Small format paper-backed pictorial boards in matching dustwrapper; colour ills. Light bumping to spine ends and corners; previous owner gift inscription to front pastedown; small 1cm tear to lower edge of one page. Dustwrapper is chipped to corners with several small tears. The story of a little girl's Nannie as a little girl herself. Size: 128mm x 158mm.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 150 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects; Bernardino da Siena, Saint (1380-1444). Sermons, Italian ; Early works to 1800 ; Translations into English. Homiletical illustrations. Stories. Homiletical illustrations. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Couverture souple. Pictures by Robert Austin. (illustrator). Livre en anglais. Number one of the "Tally ho", books for children. Pictures by Robert Austin. Broché. 47 pages. 12 x 18 cm. Avant 1960. Livre.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: lacks acetate. First, Limited Edition. Octavo, full vellum, gilt, 150 pages, deckle-edged, light spotting on top cover Of the total printing of 1050 copies, this is copy 52 of only 105 copies bound in full vellum, and signed by Robert Austin, who is in the National Gallery of Art, and is considered to be among the best British printmakers of the mid-20th century - including doing banknotes.The prints here are printed on hand-made paper, with the text in the Polyphilus font. It relates the life and good works of Bernardino of Siena (1380-1440), a Franciscan monk. He is "The Apostle of Italy", and was canonized six years after he deah. Later Bernardino was painted by El Greco.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Robert Austin (illustrator). 1st Edition. Year unclear. The OUPedition of this beautiful children's book with its extremely scarce dust jacket. Small closed tear at front top corner otherwise very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good- dj. Illustrated by Robert Austin (illustrator). First American Edition. (price-clipped) [nice clean copy with minor shelfwear only; jacket is edgeworn, with tiny chips at bottom corners of front panel, a number of short tears at corners and edges, spine moderately faded but still readable, tiny label with author's name affixed to lower spine]. (line drawings) A novel that comes with a warning: "Men are herewith warned, and women advised, that this is a book for women. Women alone will appreciate it, understand it, love it. [It] is just a joyous, light-hearted account of the holiday trip taken by two young married women both intelligent yet frivolous. Having no men along, they could be wholly feminine in their observations and confidences and renew without reticence the comparing of notes begun years before when they were girls in school together. If you nurse a secret longing -- and who of us does not? -- to 'get away from it all' for a while, this book was written for you." Published the previous year in England by J.M. Dent & Sons.

First edition. Octavo. pp [viii], 216. Top edge gilt. A story of the holiday of two women in Venice. The line-drawn illustrations are by the author's husband Robert Austin. They collaborated on a number of books.One of 75 numbered copies signed by the author. The limitation page promises an engraving signed by the artist, but this in fact never appeared.Fine in good dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine and with several nicks and closed tears.

Number 3 of 105 limited edition copies on handmade paper signed by the illustrator; 8vo (23 x 15 cm); signed and numbered in pen to limitation page, woodcut illustrations and initials, slight spotting to fore-edge; publisher's vellum, gilt device to upper-cover, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, a little soiled, very good; x, [2], 150, [2]pp. Number 3 of 105 limited edition copies signed by the illustrator Robert Austin. Saint Bernardine of Siena, (1380-1444; canonised 1450; feast day May 20), Franciscan theologian and preacher of great eloquence who, with Saints John of Capistrano and James of the March, led the growth of the Observants, a strict branch of the Franciscan order that subsequently spread throughout Europe. Bernardine became a priest in 1404 but did not begin his renowned preaching tours through Italy until 1417. Appalled by the breakdown in morals, the lawlessness, and the civil strife that resulted from the Great Western Schism, he strove to restore morals by inculcating a deep personal love of Jesus Christ.

Vellum. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Robert Austin (illustrator). First edition. A lovely limited edition copy on the life of Bernardino of Siena, containing moral lessons attributed to him, bound in vellum and signed by artist Robert Austin with numerous illustrated engravings. First Limited Edition, being No. 55 of one-hundred and five copies that were printed on handmade paper and bound in a full vellum binding.Signed by the artist Robert Austin (1895-1973) to the limited edition statement page. Austin was considered to be one of Britain's leading twentieth century printmakers, alongside his illustrating, engraving, and currency designs.Illustrated with a frontispiece, an engraved title page, three full-page engravings, and twenty-three in-text engravings by Austin.This is a wonderful biographical account of Bernardino of Siena (1380-1444) the Italian priest and Franciscan missionary, which also contains many of his sermons and moral tales. Bernardino was canonised by the Catholic Church and is sometimes referred to as the 'Apostle of Italy' because of his efforts to revive Catholicism in the 15th century. He is the patron saint of advertising, communications, compulsive gambling, respiratory problems, 'as well as any problems involving the chest area', and the patron saint of Carpi, Italy.Contents include 'Bernardino in his Times', 'Bernardino the Franciscan', as well as 'Examples of San Bernardino', containing sermons like 'The Vanity of Woman', 'A New Method of Teaching', 'A Canine Saint', and 'The Malice of Party Men'.Written and collected by Ada Harrison (1899-1958), a South African writer who spent most of her life within London. Harrison published various works on Italy, and was also the wife of Robert Austin, who she met during her travels in Italy.With an institutional bookplate to front paste down belonging to the Brooklyn Public Library, as well as a prior owner's bookplate belonging to John M. Cameron.Collated, complete. Bound in the publisher's original full vellum binding. Externally, excellent, with minimal wear to extremities and just a bit of age-toning to spine and boards, with a few spots. Illustrated bookplates to front paste down, with age-toning and a few spots to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very clean throughout, and are just lightly age-toned. The odd institutional mark, with an inscription to the corner of one of the plates, which does not affect the image. Very Good Indeed. book.