Hesling Bernard (23 results)

Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. VG, Shelfwear, bumping, foxing, browning/Fair, Edgewear, chips, tears, creases, heavy fading, foxing. Humour. Illustrated by the author. Photo on request.

Landscape 8vo, 87pp. 46 colour plates. A very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. 1st Edition. Signed simply "Bernard Hesling" on title page, this hardcover first edition is fresh and nice, in a battered, tattered, torn but complete dustjacket. " . one of the funniest, wittiest, most widely talented highly civilised men in Adelaide and in Australia.". Bernard Hesling (illustrator).…

Paperback (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.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Mylar Protected. First Edition. A clean, straight book, in a bright, complete dust jacket. Owners name on front endpaper. Bernard Hesling (illustrator).

128pp. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers, lightly edgeworn. A very good copy. Signed and inscribed. A D Hope collection.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. None. 1st Edition. Covers & Spine: both front and back boards showing light scuffing with only minor wear at the edges and corners, spine is intact and solid with some bumping at ends. Binding: firm throughout. Pages & Markings: unstained, only markings are name of previous owner and personal gift inscription on title page, clean throughout. A signature (& a little self-portrait caricature) on opening page may or may not be by the author; difficult to say. Dust Jacket is missing. PLEASE NOTE: Due to this item weighing less than 500g, postage cost for international orders (i.e. not Australian) will be less than what is shown here. Please email me if you would like a quote. All items are protectively packaged, and a postal tracking number will be sent to all customers whose current email address is registered with AbeBooks.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A firm straight book with some slight signs of ageing. Name and stamp on front page. 242 Pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. slight wear to covers and cover edges, owners name title page, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. wear to covers and cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

8vo, 242pp. Original red boards in white dustwrapper, slight marked and worn; slight water damage at top end. Top end of text block slightly spotted. Name inscription of cartoonist Vane Lindesay on half-title. A very good copy. First edition.

64pp. Oblong 8vo. Original cloth backed pictorial boards, slightly rubbed and edgeworn. Colour and black and white plates. A very good copy. Signed with a sketch. A D Hope collection.

Landscape 8vo, 87pp, colour and black and white illustrations. A very good hardback copy in edgeworn dust jacket. Edges foxed. . Signed and sketched by the author/artist.

Softcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. No torn or missing pages. Previous owner's name on first page. Nonsense rhymes about Australian fauna. Illustrator: Bernard Hesling. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Humour; Australia; Poetry. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 51783. Bernard Hesling (illustrator).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. 63pp, bw & col ills. Or cloth backed pictorial papered boards. Papered boards rubbed, small bookseller label inside front cover. SIGNED with small SKETCH by artist on half-title page. Size: Oblong 8vo. Signed by Artist.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy oblong octavo 87pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills..

Cloth. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book is very good owners inscription to endpaper, dustwrapper has a small tear and rubbing to top end, Unpaginated. 34 poems illustrated by line drawings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bernard Hesling (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Red boards with silver lettering on spine. Author's inscription on front free endpaper (see image). Boards and spine are well rubbed and thumbed. Some contact with water has caused page edges to be stained a little red. Head and tail of spine bumped and showing some moderate wear. Corners rounded and bumped. Tail of front cover is showing some moderate wear and tear. Binding neat. Spine lightly sunned. Some discolouration and foxing of pastedowns and free endpapers and the occasional page throughout. Page edges are well discoloured, foxed and thumbed, particularly at the head edge. Else book is in fair condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously but they usually present better than they sound. HESLING, Bernard (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. 21x13cm, white DJ with black & red printing, some small edge pieces missing from DJ, and some small edge tears but generally very good. Book very good. Small name on EP. First eds.…

Condition: Good. Condizioni dettagliate: Buone, fioriture sparse, firma dell'autore all'occhiello, copertina flessibile.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Adelaide, [The Author], 1977. Oblong octavo, 87 pages with numerous illustrations (including 46 in colour) from enamels by Hesling plus illustrated endpapers. Papered boards slightly rubbed at the extremities, with the rear panel lightly scored; an excellent copy with the excellent dustwrapper (lightly marked, rubbed, and scored, with a tiny closed tear). The half-title is inscribed and signed by the author, with a self-portrait caricature, to 'Ruth and Mervyn, with love (to Ruth Tuck and Mervyn Smith). Signed.…

(Adelaide 1971). Oblong 8vo. Orig. qtr. cloth with pictorial boards. (64pp.). Profusely illust. with b/w & col. plates, and includes 2pp. listing of exhibitions of Heslings' work. WITH by the same Author: Sydney Observed. Illust. by the Author. Total 2 vols.

Sydney : Shakespeare Press, [1931]. First edition. Octavo, original wrappers with design by Bernard Hesling (edge wear, spine with paper split), inside upper wrapper with bookplate of St. Sophia' Library (donation of John Mullins), half-title with offsetting from bookplate and St. Sophia's shelf number; pp 54, with 8 dramatic full-page illustrations by Hesling; foxing to first and last few leaves and fore-edge, St. Sophia's Library pocket on penultimate leaf, inside lower wrapper with bookplate of Melbourne bibliophile Jeff Prentice. Very scarce.…