Lawrence Houseman (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; B&W Illustrations; Book Club Edition; 192 pages; Signed by Not signed; Gray cloth boards with purple and blue illustrations on front and back and green spine. Light rubbing to top and bottom spine edges. Spine is straight, binding tight. Pages are clean and bright. Illustrated by Girard Gooenow (illustrator).…

44 pp, 1st edn, tipped in note to first pagecoloured letteing and repeated motif to front board. Paper backed boards, 21 cm x 17.5 cm. Boards slightly soiled, fading to spine and top edge of front board, small paint mark to front board, pages lightly age browned, heavier browning to endpapers. Paper backed boards, 21 cm x 17.5 cm. Boards slightly soiled, fading to spine and top edge of front board, small paint mark to front board, pages lightly age browned, heavier browning to endpapers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Presumed first edition (title page undated, copyright 1911, gift inscription dated 1913 on front endpaper). A very good copy bound in original rust-colored cloth with gilt spine lettering and embossed gilt illustration on front board. Spine slightly darkened, two small spots on front board, otherwise clean and sound. Beautifully illustrated with 12 color plates by Dulac.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition? 12mo. (2),143-156pp. Green paper covers with black lettering and cartouche on front. Cotton ties through. 'one shilling net' printed on cover. Neat ink signature and date 'Jan 1933' on title page. Slight foxing and browning else very clean & tight & unchipped. VG+.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 12mo. (2),227-237pp. Green paper covers with black lettering and cartouche on front. Cotton ties through. 'one shilling net' printed on cover. Neat ink signature and date 'Jan 1933' on title page. Slight foxing and browning else veryt clean & unchipped. VG+.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition? 12mo. (2),125-142pp. Green paper covers with black lettering and cartouche on front. Cotton ties through. 'one shilling net' printed on cover. Neat ink signature and date 'Jan 1933' on title page. Front top edge horiz else very clean & unchipped. VG+. …

Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Circa 1930s. Includes 20 beautiful tipped in colour plates by one of the worlds finest illustrators. 319pp. Edmund Dulac (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: very good. First Edition. Octavo.7 1/2' x 5'. 37pp.Cream pictorial boards. With 44 designs invented, drawn and written by Lawrence Housman. Limited to 1000 copies. Lawrence Housman's first book. Lawrence Houseman (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Copyright date 1913 First Edition. 10 by 7 1/2 inches in gilt and green pictorial cloth binding. 10 Tipped-in color illustrations by Edmund Dulac. "Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 May 25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Bronte Sister. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe children's book market shrank he turned to magazine illustrations among other ventures. Some staining and fraying to spine; binding sound, Very Good. Size: 4to - over 9" x 12" Tall. Edmund Dulac (illustrator).…