James Laver Editor (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1971 Edition. in Near Fine Slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued. Sandglass Sheet (X I: 36) Laid In. The Book Is Bound Within Boards With Marbled Paper Over One Quarter Burgundy Cloth. Gilt Lettering And Rules Within A Black Title Block On The Spine. The Top Edges Are Dyed Burgundy. The Spine Of The Book Has Minor Fading. The Burgundy Paper Covered Slip Case Has Some Fading At The Opening And Top. Tremois,Pierre-Yves (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Illustrated. Harry Morley "Figure Painting in Oils: Theory and Practice" / Doris Pusinelli "Figure Painting in Water-Colour" / Henry Coller "My Approach and Methods in Story Illustration" / F G Mories "Reflections on Drawing and its Importance" / John R Turner "A Practical Course in Commercoal design" / Artists of Note umber 23 - John Patt / James Laver "The Evolution of Theatrical Decor" / /Leonard Sharpe "Illustrating Clothing Fashions for Men" (BT#38).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Revised edition. 368pp. Blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations front and spine. 8vo. Cloth is a little worn and unevenly faded, gently rubbed on extreme corners and rounded at spine ends. Some spotting on text block edges and first and last few pages else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original worn and chapped but largely complete dust wrapper, rubbed and scuffed on corners and ends of sunned spine. A large collection of stories aimed at the younger reader from a selection of children's authors, including several contributions by Noel Streatfeild herself.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. A Very Good Mid-Century volume. Clean and tight, NO interior markings at all. Extremities are gently worn as are the crown and foot. The Editor, James Laver was a British author, critic, art historian and museum curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum (a Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings). He was a pioneering fashion/costume historian. Illustrated with sixteen (16) reproductions of color plates, (chromo-lithography) all in Pristine condition. A beautiful hard to find issue. The Good minus Dust jacket is extremity chipped with the spine being torn - but is mostly in place. (see photo). Front flap is price clipped. Mylar protected jacket.…

Softcover (Side-stapled). Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Edition. 34 pages. With plates and illustrations. Central plate tipped in. Faded notes written to front cover in pen. Slight creasing to top and bottom corners of front cover. Front cover slightly soiled. Slight wear to spine, cover and corners.; A4 (300 x 210mm approx.); Contents: The Collector of Drawings; Early Portrait Drawings of the Augsburg School; French Drawings of the Eighteenth Century; Venetian Masquerade; and The Artist on the Spot.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Near fine book in clean fresh plum cloth covers wih bright gilt titles to spine; tiny chip at rear. Internally near fine; owner's name neatly to flyleaf; lavishly illustrated in colour and b/w. The dust jacket is very good++; some tiny rubs; a small chip and a little edge creasing to rear. An attractive copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Gold titles on black ground with blue cloth covers, 390 pages including index plus 11 pages of introductory material. Includes over 200 b/w and color plates. Mild soiling to cover. Previous owner's name inked on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to. Red and gilt pictorial cloth. 135 pp. Colour and b/w plates and illustrations. Very clean. No inscriptions. VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2 volume set. Limited to 600 hundred copies. Previous owner's name written on the first free end paper. Some foxing. Sunned spine and part of the cover. Now in a protective mylar sleeve. Size: Octavo. Book.

1957. (4to) Very good, no dust jacket. 135pp. Red cloth Photograph endpapers, black and white and color illustrations, color photographs, maps gilt decorated cover. Contributors include George Bellow, Adrian Digby, Paul Gaultier, Christopher Hohler, James Laver, W.J. Rees, Mortimer Wheeler, B. Woledge. (Nature, Scallops, Sea Shells, Shells). …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. 203pp. Condition: Very Good or better in a Good dust jacket which has chips missing from head and tail of spine. ** Includes the essays "Henry James - An Aspect" by the author Graham Greene, "Anger Against Books" by the Scottish author Naomi Mitchison, and "Spirit of Death" by the founder of the famous J.R.R. Tolkien-associated Inklings Club, (Edward) Tangye Lean. OCLC 26693546. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. One of 600 numbered copies, this on unnumbered. l, 210 pp. & 211-466 pp., frontispiece to each volume. Marine blue buckram, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Without dustwrappers as issued. A very good bright copy in slipcase.

paperback, large landscape 8vo, 68pp, illustrated, cover art by David Gentleman, edges browning, contnets clean and sound, no inscriptions, cover edges rubbed, Good condition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Full grey-brown cloth, grey and gilt spine decoration, gilt titling. Lower front corners bumped, one upper corner a little frayed, light smudging on the rear cover, light general wear, gilt bright. Pages a bit yellowed; text & plates clean. German translation of "Costume of the Western World: Fashions of the Renaissance in England, France, Spain and Holland". 380 pages, six essays on various places and times each with many b/w and color plates, bibliography, text in German. …

1970, 1st Thus. (Cloth) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 465pp. Frontispiece, port. Some edge wear to unclipped wrapper with minor fading to spine. The 2 volumes of Laver's '33 edition in one.

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. 28 x 21 cm. xi, 116 pages. Colour Plates. Original dark blue cloth. Hard cover. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear, rubbing and bumping. Edges and end papers dust age darkened. Internally clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex library hardback with illustrated boards; usual stamps/markings. Published in 1951 by George G. Harrap, London. Some wear to boards/spine otherwise a clean, sound copy. 62 illustrations including 8 in colour all intact & free markings. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 34A*.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Good +. First Thus. blue bds with some small white stains. top spine end bumped. b/w illus to frontis. interior very good and clean. unclipped d.j. with fading to spine and front top edge, rubbing to corners, two 5mm tears to back bottom corner, 7mm and 5mm tear to front bottom edge, 8mm tear and 2 small chips to bottom spine end and 15mm L shaped tear to top spine end.…

Condition: Very Good. Black and White illustrations and photographs and tipped-in colour illustrations. Very Good in G Dust Jacket (DJ bears closed tears and a chip at the bottom of the spine). DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Copy #759(of 1500) numbered copies. A good copy in original gilt-stamped red cloth, top edge gilt; in a good example of publisher's slipcase (slipcase rubed with some bumping). Monthly Letter laid in loose.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Hardcover, no dustjacket. Crimson boards with gilt text and decorative imprint on boards, clean and bright, fraying to spine ends, less so to corners. Book is firm in binding, photogravure plates throughout as well as color plates, lightly foxed endpapers, Hollywood Book Store vintage sticker to top back pastedown. A tight copy; with 120 color and b&w plates of costume and set designs from a wide variety of productions. Literary contributions from E. Gordon Craig, Charles B. Cochran and Nigel Playfair. Beautiful Art Deco style blindstamp on front endpaper from previous owners director Michael Curtiz and screenwriter Bess Meredyth. 31 pp. of text plus plates. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 4to 11" - 13" tall.…

Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Collector's edition, bound in leather, printed on archival paper, 162 poems by 33 poets ranging in date of publication from 1882 to 1950. Book in near fine condition, else the very lightest shelf wear, with ribbon marker, gilt closed edges, gilt lettering and illustration to front and spine with four raised bands to spine. Size: 4to. Pierre-Yves Tremois (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. First edition thus 1940, illustrated by Jacob Epstein. Limited edition, this is number 516. Published for members of The Limited Editions Club by Fanfare Press in London, illustrations printed in Paris by Fernand Mourlot from lithographic stone. Hardcover in full cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine, upper edge gilt, no DJ. Condition near fine inside, square and tight book, corners not bumped, long inscription on ffep "for Daniel. Please accept this volume of Poetry illustrated by your great great uncle, " no underlinings, no highlights, no bent pages, spine slightly sunned, not a reminder. 4to, XXXVI + 304 pages, illustrations printed in Paris by Fernand Mourlot from lithographic stone. Heavy book will require additional postage for international orders. ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002J5OJSS. Jacob Epstein (illustrator).…

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Editions. All nine parts present. 12mo. 18 by 12.5 cm. Light wear and occasional soiling. Overall, a lovely and well-preserved set of the full run of this legendary theatrical magazine that had a stellar line-up of contributors. Rex Whistler, John Hassell, etc. (illustrator). …

LAVER, James (editor). LE COSTUME DES TUDOR A LOUIS XIII. Paris: Horizons de France, (1950). 4to. Cloth, dust jacket. (iv), 376 pages. First edition. With chapters by James Laver, Andre Blum, and others, covering French costumes from 1485-1643. Very good in a worn dust jacket.