Illustrator Groves Raines (6 results)

1st edition. 8vo. [199pp.] B/w. frontispiece and illustrations. Ownership inscription to slightly browned front f.e.p, original pale grey cloth, upper board discoloured, d/w. rubbed and slightly chipped to edges. US$10.

Peter Lunn, 1947. Hardback, d/j, 8vo, 199pp, illust. Owner name, endpapers slightly tanned, d/j a little torn and marked. A fair copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Groves- Raines (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo. Not paginated. [20pp] Staple bound in paper wrappers as issued. Illustrated throughout by Groves- Raines in colour. Inspired by Heinrich Hoffman Struwwelpeter stories. The edges of the wrappers are a little worn and slightly spotted. Staples are now rusted but holding.Inside on the verso of blank endpaper of the cover is the Ex libris plate of C.H.L.Bledisloe; the text has some spotting in the middle of the book by the staples otherwise it is nice and clean. A very nice example of one of the scarcer Guinness Booklets, which were given as Christmas presents to stockists and to doctors, who at that time could prescribe Guinness to patients as a dietary supplement. Illustrated and written by the Irish artist Antony Groves-Raines. Size 23.5 x 15.5 cm ( 9.25 x 6.25 inches).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. London, Guinness, [c.1960]. Large octavo, [16] pages including the overlapping wrappers, all extensively illustrated in colour by Antony Groves-Raines. Colour pictorial wrappers very slightly bumped and rubbed at the extremities; essentially a fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 16 page booklet. Quoting from Mrs Beeton's 1864 Book of Household Management alongside witty verse. Beautifully and amusingly illustrated throughout. Near fine condition, protected under removable film cover.

colour-printed illustrations throughout, pp. [20], 8vo, original stapled cream wrappers, Groves-Raines illustrations to both covers, the staples slightly rusted, very good. Elaborate and ingenious advertising material from the brewer, the third of these booklets to use the 'Alice' books as a source-text; an excellent copy.