Memoir Descriptive Notes Sabretache (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Aldin (illustrator). Cream spine and red boards lettered in gilt. Jacket, in removable sleeve, foxed and worn with chips and tears and loss to portions of spine plus 2 cm x 2 cm loss at top of rear panel. Internally foxing limited to free end papers and half title. Clean contents.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Fine 1st ED hard cover in professionally reproduced dust wrapper in new mylar that shows small chips at tips and head of back strip with no loss to titles. Quarter bound, cream buckram over red gilt-lettered cloth boards show negligible surface soil to the cream cloth at spine ends of this hardcover collectible, corners sharp. The text is mint. A posthumous work contains a number of unfinished sketches and rough studies for pictures which were to come. They take us behind the scenes in an artist's studio; they take us with him to the actual spots all over England, where he made his notes for the work which he meant to elaborate but which unhappily he never could. Images are single pg and two page spreads in pencil or charcoal with some color wash added to many.