Nicolas Bentley Illustrator (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Dustjacket. Reprint. xxii + 312 pages. No dustjakcet. Clean blue hardback binding with illustrations of two people on front board. Spine colour-faded with some wear to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges yellowed, occasional foxing o/w pages clean and tidy. Bentley, Nicolas (Illustrator) (…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Single date on the copyright page. Late Wodehouse novel about bumbling philanthropist Freddie Widgeon. 12mo, red gilt cloth, 223 pages plus Wodehouse bibliography. A fine, unmarked copy in a near fine jacket with a tiny corner chip to the bottom of the…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. First American edition, stated, with alpha code BCDE. Tight, square binding with blunting to ends of spine and light soiling to cloth. Half-title page and FFEP are glued together along top end at gutter. Text and images unmarked. A few small st…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Published In 1984 : Reprinted Edition : faber & faber Publishing : Very Small Top Corner Crease To The Back Cover : Otherwise, As New Throughout : This Is A Lovely Crisp & Clean Copy , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text & Illustrations : Overall, A Very Nice…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Discolouration. Markings and notes. English Classic humorous guide to English life and British behaviour written by George Mikes from the perspective of a Central European outsider. Through witty observations, irony and satire, the book explores English customs, social etiquette, class differences, te…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. 1st Edition. Hardcover book in very good condition. Dust jacket fair, shows wear and small tears, as well as a light coffee stain to front. Inscribed by author at ffep. Questions welcome. We ship internationally from the United States and Canada every week. If b…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition in the original grey cloth with $2.00 price on the flap. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket has a few small edge nicks and a tiny 1/8" v chip to the sine corner, but is else whole, clean and bright. Protected in an archival Mylar jac…

One page, very good. Postcard illustration of Marie Taglioni. In Bentley's distinctive neat hand. 'If & when Angus & Robertson's traveller shows you a book called Dead Funny, illus. by Bill Tidy, pubs. Ask & Grant, I hope you'll feel compelled to place a huge order: The Grant is Arabella's husband, just breaking into publishing…

FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY. Large 8vo, pp. [150] with b/w illustrations. Blue cloth, paper title label to spine (toned). A little rubbed, corners and edges bumped. Edges dusty. Lady Ellen Askwith's inscription in black pen, and flamboyant hand (for M. R. Fletcher?), to half-title: "With love & very best/ wishes/ from Ellen…

See his entry by Ruari Maclean in the Oxford DNB. The recipient Vere Henry Collins (1872-1966), was an author and grammatical stickler. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. With Bentley's distinctive stylized signature 'Nicolas Bentley'. After thanking him for his letter he writes (apparently with reference to a newspaper…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Faber and Faber, London, 1966. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean, unmarked copy, with price sticker intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. A beautifully preserved copy, with illustrations by Nicol…

4to, 1 p. 19 lines. Text clear and complete. On aged and lightly creased paper, with strip of sunning to left-hand margin. Neat signature: 'Nicolas Bentley'. The film and television rights to the book were all 'bought some years ago by Herbert Wilcox, who, as I understand it, still owns them'. Bentley has reports the opinion of…