Nicolas C Bentley Illustrator (3 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) (illustrator). …

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 'Messrs A. P. Watt, my late father's agent', on the question of the radio rights. 'I control the stage rights', Bentley states, giving the conditions on which he would agree to a stage adaptation. …

loose plates. Condition: Very Good +. 1st editions. London, Shell, 1930's, Loose plates in folder London, SHELL, 1930's, Loose plates in folder, 11.25 x 7 inches each, in unmarked cardboard folder. Very Good + Shell employed several artists and published a lot of different kinds of advertising before WWII. There are good websites about it online. I have not been able to find these caricature style ads anywhere See also my listing with the scrapbook of the Pandemonium Group, co-founded by Bentley. Nicolas Clerihew Bentley (14 June 1907 - 14 August 1978) was a British writer and illustrator, best known for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. Bentley sold his first drawing to his godfather, G. K. Chesterton. He had a commission to draw illustrations for a trade newspaper called Man and his clothes in 1928, and his first regular job as an illustrator was in the publicity department of SHELL. Bentley worked for SHELL for three years, but disliked working in advertising. In 1930, Hilaire Beloc (who was a friend of his father) invited him to illustrate his book New Cautionary Tales. The good critical reception of this book and its illustrations allowed him to go freelance. Bentley also wrote novels and continued to illustrate books. In 1951 he was one of the founders of the book publishers Andre Deutsch Ltd - the three arrows of its logo representing himself, Deutsch and the third director, Diana Athill. However, as one employee recalled, Bentley 'stayed out of the office altogether apart from attendance at Friday editorial meetings.'. Nicolas C. Bentley (illustrator).…