Jackson Holbrook Editor Edward Lear (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Edward Lear (illustrator). 1st. 1st thus edition; dj w/chipping, unclipped price, in mylar; owner's insc; gold c. w/blue spine titles; 288 clean, unmarked pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition thus. 26481 CF shelf. NOT Ex-library. Solid trade paperback, pictorial orange covers, dulled spine. Usual age-browned paper. No names, clean text. Contains Lear's 546 b/w illustrations 288 p. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. G+ Light edge & shelf wear to cover. Clean, tight copy. Pages lightly tanned.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Edward Lear, Barnett Freedman. (illustrator). Second impression. Uninscribed. No wear. With cloth illustrated front and back by Barnett Freedman.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. 11th impression. Hard cover Illustrated boards with matching with dust jacket. Small creases/tears and loss on DJ edges(mostly on the top and bottom of DJ spine) Not price clipped. Black and white illustrations. Slight foxing on page edges. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Introduction by Holbrook Jackson. Location: TBL7R.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lear, Edward (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (12s 6d). Edited and introduced by Holbrook Jackson. Profusely illustrated by Edward Lear. Jacket has patchy edge/shelf wear, little loss to head of spine, few tears, few small marks, patchy browning (including to spine), minor foxing, the odd crease/rub to edges, little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and a little pushing/bumping to corners. Boards are very good with minor pushing/bumping to corners, one very small (approx. 5mms) split to middle of back upper edge and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Small bookseller's sticker inside back board. Top of pages slightly dusty. Pages bit tanned. Inside boards/end-papers bit tanned with the odd small mark/minor foxing. Occasional small mark/mild foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Barnett Freedman (illustrator). First edition. Published to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Lear's original Book of Nonsense, this copy includes a collection of his work. First thus. Illustrated throughout. Published to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of Lear's Book of Nonsense. Includes a collection of the humorous writings and illustrations of Edward Lear, an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet. With many of his limericks, a form he popularised. Edited with an introduction by George Holbrook Jackson, a British journalist, writer and publisher. With the dust wrapper designed by Barnett Freedman, a British painter, commercial designer, book illustrator, typographer, and lithographer. In the original pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is sound with light shelf wear and chipping to the extremities. Sunning to the spine and the odd small closed tear. Minor loss to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Various (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this uncommon work of literary criticism by Holbrook Jackson, signed by the author. The first edition of this uncommon work.Signed by the author to the recto of the front endpaper, with his bookplate to the front paste down.'All Manner of Folk, Interpretations and Studies' presents a series of essays on culture and criticism, with biographical notices on Max Beerbohm, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and William Morris.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and four plates. Collated, complete.By the journalist, writer, and publisher George Holbrook Jackson. A noted journalist who worked for numerous magazines during his career, Jackson is known as being one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. He founded in the Flying Fame Press alongside Ralph Hodgson and Claud Lovat Fraser, and had a long association with English small presses.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light marks to the cloth. Spine is faded. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spots to the fore edge. Front hinge is starting but firm. Bookplate to the front paste down. Author's signature to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Frontispiece is detached but present, as are pages 7 to 10. Good. signed by author. book.