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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Ed. First trade paperback ed. Good condition, moderate over all wear, lower right corner and top edge of front cover darkened. Book.
Published by The Artist Publishing Company, 1937
Seller: Shore Books, London, United Kingdom
Magazine / Periodical
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#31).
Published by Heritage Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1971
Seller: M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1971 Edition. in Near Fine Slipcase.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Tremois,Pierre-Yves (illustrator). 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.
Published by Pilot Press, London, 1946
Seller: Literary Cat Books, Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, United Kingdom
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Softcover (Side-stapled). Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by The 'Shell' Transport and Trading Company, London, 1957
Seller: Wheeler's Bookshop, Midhurst, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. Red and gilt pictorial cloth. 135 pp. Colour and b/w plates and illustrations. Very clean. No inscriptions. VG+.
Published by Pitman Publishing Corporation, New York & London, 1955
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust jacket. First Edition. New York & London: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1955. Near Fine condition in a Good only dust jacket. The jacket is largely intact but has a few small chips and closed tears. Some of the tears have been reinforced with clear tape on the blank side. Partially price clipped. NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. PENROSE ANNUAL, VOLUME 49. 1955. First Edition. Lavishly illustrated. Scores of impressive color plates. Among 40 chapters are WILL BRADLEY by Paul Bennett, CLAUD LOVETT FRASER by James Laver, BURIN ENGRAVING ON METAL AND WOOD by John Buckland-Wright and NINETEENTH-CENTURY BROADSHEETS. Contributors include John Dreyfus, Will Carter (Rampant Lions Press), Sir Kenneth Clark, and Charles Rosner. Bound in the original grayish-blue cloth with bevelled edges, stamped in yellow and black. Includes dust jacket. Oversize Hardcover. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Good dust jacket. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1951
Seller: Canal Bookyard, Upper Black Eddy, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
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.
Published by 'shell' Transport and Trading Company, London
Seller: Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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).
Published by Jarrolds, London, 1946
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 224 Pp. Including Bibliography At End. Black Cloth, Gilt. Excellent Literary Anthology, Becoming Scarce In Dj. Book Is Good, Well Worn But Intact, No Marks, Cloth Worn At Corners With Fraying At Lower End Of Spine, Gilt Still Brilliant. Dj Only Fair, Well Worn, Chips And Tears And Creases At Edges, But No Loss Of Lettering, Not Price-Clipped.
Hard Backs. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited to Six Hundred Copies. A little foxing to endpapers and slight fading to spines; now preserved in custom-made glacine jackets. Limited edition.
Published by Elkin Mathews & Marrot, London, 1933
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by Methuen, UK, 1970
Seller: Harry Righton, Evesham, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.
Published by B. T. Batsford, Ldt., London, U.K., 1951
Seller: Margins13 Books, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. A Very Good volume. Clean and tight, NO interior markings at all. Corners are gently worn as is the crown and heel. 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 plus Dust jacket is extremity chipped with the spine being torn - but mostly in place. (see photo). Front flap is price clipped. Mylar protected jacket.
Published by Pleiades Books, London. 1947. Signed and inscribed by the author., 1947
Seller: Much Ado Books, Alfriston, SUSSE, United Kingdom
Signed
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.
Published by Paul List Verlag, Munich, 1951
First Edition
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.
Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1951
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). First American Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. 4to. First American Edition, stated. Cloth binding, 390 pp. Illustrated with plates throughout. Early Tudor by James Laver; The Last Valois by Andre Blum; Elizabethan and Jacobean by Graham Reynolds; The Dominance of Spain, by Brian Reade; The Great Age of Holland, by Frithjof van Thienen; Early Bourbon by Andre Blum. Boards soiled, spine sunned. Solid copy in very good condition.
Published by Barnes & Noble, New York
Seller: Spafford Books (ABAC / ILAB), Regina, SK, Canada
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.
Published by George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd.,, 1951
Seller: Gareth Roberts, Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo, CARMS, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Ex library hardback with illustrated boards; usual stamps/markings. 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*.
Published by London: The King's Printers' , 1933., 1933
Seller: David Strauss, FOLKINGHAM, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
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.
Published by Derek Verschoyle, London, 1954
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Walter Goetz (illustrator). No markings.
Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1977
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Full Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Pierre-Yves Tremois (illustrator). 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.
Published by Albert And Charles Boni, New York, 1927
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
First Edition
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 costume from 1485-1643. Very good in a worn dust jacket.
Published by The Limited Editions Club / Fanfare Press in London, 1940
Seller: monobooks, Livingston, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Jacob Epstein (illustrator). 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.
Published by Stanley Nott, 1934
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
First Edition
HARDCOVER. Condition: VERY GOOD. 1st Edition. 1934. Stanley Nott. Hardback. VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION. No DJ. Blue board. Silver title. Coloured page tops. Internally and externally good. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Black and white illustrations. Light tanning to pages. Spine slightly tanned. Marking to cover. Shelf/edge wear. 9' x 6'.