Lacey Everett (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First UK Edition. Pictorial dust jacket over black cloth boards with silver gilt titles on spine. 8vo, 256pp. Protected dustjacket illustrated by Lacey Everett is in very good condition with minor edge wear to spine, price-clipped, with the colours still bright. Inner book is lovely and clean, a couple of pages have creases to the upper corner. ?Set in the Belgian Congo, a stranger from Europe arrives out of a past that no-one knows, with what object no-one knows.. Lacey Everett (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, January 1961. Top of page edges spotted, else fine, bound in it's original black cloth boards with silver lettering to the spine in near fine dust jacket, lightly darkened at spine, not price clipped (16s net), , in protective mylar cover. Dust Wrapper design by Lacey Everett. Querry, a world-famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a "burnt-out case", a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for the lepers his disease of mind slowly approaches a cure. Then the white community finds out who Querry is. Everett, Lacey (illustrator). Book.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The black boards have light edge wear. Brown spotting to the tops of the page edges. The pages are a little browned but are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has a two inch closed tear running down from the top of the front panel, chipping at the top of the spine to a lesser extent to the other corners. Browning and spotting to the rear panel. Jacket design by Lacey Everett. First printing. Everett, Lacey (illustrator).…

Condition: Very Good. one sheet folded for four octavo pages with text double column; very good in self wrappers, - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. …

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A lovely first UK edition of Graham Greene's A Burnt-Out Case, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first UK edition of this novel in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper, designed by Lacey Everett. Ink inscription to the front free end paper, dated 1961. A Burnt-Out Case is a novel by Graham Greene (1904-1991), set in a leper colony on the upper reaches of a tributary of the Congo River in Africa. Greene was inspired by his visits to leper colonies in the Congo and Cameroons, and dedicates this novel to Docteur Michel Lechat, a medical doctor at a leper colony in Yonda in Africa. In publisher's original cloth binding, with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally the cloth is very smart, though slightly faded to the upper extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with only a little spotting to the fore edge. Dust wrapper is somewhat sunned to the spine, and to the rear of the wrap, which is also a little soiled. Some chipping to the head of the spine and wear to the joints and folds. Faint tidemark to the reverse of the wrap. Colour is otherwise good. Near Fine. Lacey Everett (illustrator). book. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition 1st Printing. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Heavy Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Lightly Creased; Moderately Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: The Memoirs of Matila Ghyka, K.C.V.O., M.C. ALSO KNOWN AS: The World Mine Oyster is the considerably shortened and adapted version of my two volumes Escales de ma Jeunesse and Heureux qui comme Ulysse, which were originally published in Paris by La Colombe, and which were "crowned" by the "Academie Francaise." I am most grateful to Mr Patrick Leigh Fermor and Mr Benjamin Glazebrook for help in adapting my translation from the French. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY: Patrick Leigh Fermor. CONTENTS: I My Moldavian Childhood; II A Schoolboy in Paris; III On the Borda; IV The Iphigenie's Last Cruise; V The Black Sea and the Danube; VI Love and Higher Mathematics; VII Back to the Rumanian Navy; VIII A Mission to the Shah; IX Up the Rhine and Down the Danube; X I Go Round the World; XI The First World War; XII On A Russian Battleship; XIII The War Continues; XIV Diplomatic Interludes; XV Rumania Under King Carol; XVI Professor of Aesthetics; Index. SYNOPSIS: In his Introduction to the English edition of these remarkable memoirs, Patrick Leigh Fermor writes: "Even before the war the world from which Matila Ghyka springs seemed fabulously remote. Now that it has been irretrievably destroyed and its ruins sealed away behind hostile political barriers, it has retreated a further giant stride into distance and legend." The author's great-grandfather, Gregory Ghyka X, was the last reigning Prince of Moldavia before this principality was united with its sister state Wallachia in 1859, to form what ultimately became the kingdom of Rumania. Gregory Ghyka X had been crowned in Yassy, and it was here in 1881 that the author was born. Educated first in Paris, then with Jesuit priests in Jersey, he joined the French Naval Academy on the Borda at the age of sixteen. But although the sea was his original calling, an insatiable curiosity about every facet of life led him thereafter into the most diverse spheres. It was his ambition in his youth to become a Renaissance "complete man" in the style of Pico della Mirandola, and this is precisely what he eventually became. Sailor, diplomat, mathematician, poet and novelist, his main contribution has been in the small sealed off world of Aesthetics, and his book Le Nombre D'Or, published in Paris in 1930, remains an important landmark in the aesthetic history of France and beyond. These memoirs, however, are chiefly concerned not with the author's aesthetic theories, but with his adventures, many of which are as strange as those of Sinbad. Nearly being eaten by sharks while serving with the French Navy in the West Indies on one of the last great cruises under sail; escaping unscathed when visiting the front line at the Battle of the Aisne in 1915, but being genuinely wounded while acting as an extra in a mock battle for a film about the American War of Independence; taking part in a diplomatic mission to one of the last Shahs of the old dynasty of Persia, the description of which reads as outlandishly as the travels of Marco Polo--the reader is led from one colourful episode to the next. Throughout a life whose range of activity has been truly fantastic, the author, perhaps because he is a Romantic, has reacted to each new situation or discovery with the freshness and delight of a child. This complete absence of staleness or cynicism gives these unusual memoirs their unusual charm. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Lacey Everett (illustrator). …