Ian Cox Ed (36 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Impeccable Hardback. In Somewhat Worn And Faded Slipcase. Henry Holiday (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Ring on back cover, else Very Good. Includes the Diamond Jubilee compliments slip.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Covers show very minor rubbing. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 135 pages.

Condition: Good. 1939. First Edition. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

Condition: Good. 1948. First Published. 322 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Creased spine cloth.…

Condition: VG+ decorated cloth, no dj. hardcover. 4to. 135pp. NO INTERNATIONAL OR PRIORITY.

Condition: Good. 1939. First Edition. 217 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over orange cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have moderate shelf wear with some rubbing, fraying and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning, particularly to spine. Unclipped jacket has heavy edge wear with tears, chipping and creasing and areas of loss.…

Condition: Good. 1939. First Edition. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth covered boards. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Boards have moderate shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. H/B 135 pages condition is very good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Devoted to many aspects of the Scallop, including art, food, heraldry, mythology. 135 pages plus index, many beautiful illustrations. Large, heavy book, ornate gold design bright on red cloth, gilt on spine dull, very slight surface damage to back left and bottom. Very Good.…

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean with light age tone. DJ with some edge wear, tears and creasing.

very good condition in red decorated cloth.

Quarto hardcover (VG) illus; 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First edition. Bright red cloth with gold decoration to front and spine. 220 x 288 x 20mm. 135pp. Some damage to cloth of cover (loss of glossy surface, probably caused by water), mainly on rear board but to a small extent on front board also; internal pages are crisp and clean with no major faults or blemishes. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.…

Condition: Good. Pbk112pp, covers scuffed and bumped at the corners, prev ownerÕs name pon front endpaper, otherwise internally a very good, clean, tight and unmarked working text.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lightly rubbed and marked boards. Internally fine.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). First. Color illustrations. 4to, decorative red cloth. London: Shell Transport, 1957. First Edition. Very good (+).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An interesting and well produced book from the Shell Transport and Trading Company, Limited, marking their Diamond Jubilee. Based on their famous scallop shell logo, they published this book which features many different aspects of the scallop. The Scallop; Studies of a shell and its influences on humankind by eight authors. Edited by Ian Cox, C.B.E., M.A. Following a Foreword by The Rt. hon. Lord Godber, Chairman of Shell, the book comprises eight illustrated essays as follows: Shell: A Word's Pedigree, by R. Woledge;  The Living Scallop, by W. J. Rees;  A Symbol in Ancient Times, by Sir Mortimer Wheeler;  The Badge of St James, by Christopher Hohler;  The Cradle of Venus, by James Laver;  Escallops in Armory, by The Hon. Sir George Bellew;  An Excursion into the Americas, by Adrian Digby; and;  The Scallop at the Table, by Paul Gaultier.  Published by The 'Shell' Transport and Trading Company, Limited, London, 1957. First edition. A very good red cloth hardback with gilt scallop design. Covers with light wear and a few minor marks. Pictorial endpapers. Soundly bound. With gift presentation slip from The Chairman of Shell, dated to 18 October, 1957. The text is bright and clean throughout. Well illustrated throughout. 135pp + (1). Text in English. Weight approximately 891g (unpacked). Dimensions: approximately 287mm high x 220mm wide x 20mm deep. More photos on request.…

Gilt decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated in black, white and color. Important reference work. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy. 137 pps.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. no DJ. First Edition. Slight shelf wear, edges dusty, corners slightly bumped.

4to, pp. 135. Copiously illustrated, with articles by eight authors. Red cloth, with pattern on front and lettering stamped in gilt. Cover sittle soiled, and slightly scuffed at corners and at ends of spine, some ink marking along left side of title, o/w a VG tight copy. The publisher apears to be Shell Oil.…

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,950grams, ISBN.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: As new. dj. First thus. When we acquired these two Folio Society volumes, in as-new condition, it only made sense to market them together. After all, both the authors are noted English wits separated by less than a generation, both gained fame as playwrights but also worked in other literary forms, and both of them are gay icons. More particularly to these books, they are bound in such a way that they look like they belong together as parts of a series (even if they weren't officially published as such), and are edited in such a way as to provide an overview of the authors' careers in the form of extracts. They were published in 1997 and 1996, respectively. "The Wit of Oscar Wilde" is edited by Merlin Holland, Wilde's own grandson, who is widely respected as a sympathetic, but not uncritical, authority on Wilde. He created chapters according to genre and wrote an introduction to each one: essays, stories, "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (Wilde's only novel), the plays, and a final chapter of works written while Wilde was in prison and immediately upon release that Holland titles "De Profundis" after the name of the first work. Each chapter begins with an introduction by Holland, an epigram by Wilde, and except for the last chapter, ends with one of Wilde's short poems. There are many black-and-white woodblock-like illustrations throughout by Ian Archie Beck, with more illustrations covering the binding. "The Cream of Noel Coward," edited by Michael Cox, with a preface by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley, follows much the same pattern. Cox arranged his book chronologically instead of by topic, with most chapters dedicated to decades from the 1920s through the 1970s. He mostly includes acts and speeches from plays and films Cowards wrote and the lyrics of songs, but there are also some essays, poems, and bits of biography. The complete script of the play "Private Lives," still one of Coward's most popular pieces of theater, is included. Whereas the illustrations for the Wilde book were many and small, the illustrations by Helen Smithson here are fewer but in the form of full-page prints and seem to have something of a surrealist bent. Again, they carry over to the book cover. As new, unread. Both are bound in gold-colored cloth and show no signs of wear or damage to the boards or spine. All is tight and square. Illustrations wrap around the covers and spine, printed in black. Spine lettering is also printed in black. The books do not have dust jackets but instead have sturdy slipcases which also show no wear or damage, covered in paper the same color as the book cloth. The text blocks are impeccably clean and undamaged, printed on fine paper in Dante with Gill Sans Extra Condensed. These would be fine gifts for those who are already fans, or a good introduction for those who have wondered what all the fuss is about. Beck, Ian Archie; Smithson, Helen (illustrator).…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.