Patience Empson Editor (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Mylar jacket is torn at the top corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 355 pp. Buckram boards; gilt stamped; boards show light edge wear with some light stains which are barely noticeable.Interior clean and bright. A beautiful copy!

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Large quarto-size (29cm high by 23cm wide), 402 pages (xliv, 358) plus a frontis from the artist's block and its tissue guard; all of the pages after the prelims being black-and-white plates showing more than a thousand images; publisher's black cloth with gilt titles on the spine and a device likewise on the front cover: clear glassine (plastic) dust-jacket printed with titles in orange. Very Good, no writing, mark-up, labels or other defacememts; undamaged jacket cockled at the spine (as usual for this type of jacket). Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free. Heavy book - extra charges will be needed for shipment outside the UK (packed weight 2.2 kg).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black buckram gilt, DW, thick 4to., xliv, 355 pages, color frontispiece, nine pages of half-tones and over 1,000 engravings reproduced. Broadside prospectus folded twice to form six pages laid in. Rear upper tip bumped, slight edgewear, spine mildly faded, else a very good copy in the scuffed, original clear fitted DW printed in red. Additional shipping cost may be requested.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. heavy, extra postage may be required. complete with mylar jacket. minimal wear on the boards. light usage marks. text is clear, neat and intact. very good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). First Edition. Extremely well illustrated with many hundreds of examples, quarto, pp xliv, 355, exceptionally clean internally, black cloth very slightly dusty otherwise in excellent condition, in the original printed Mylar dustwrapper, and in the original packing box. A heavy book - extra postage may be necessary.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage.

FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.xliv,355; tinted frontispiece on Japanese paper; 9 pages of half-tone plates and over 1000 wood engravings; illustrated prospectus laid in. A very good copy in original buckram, gilt, & printed acetate wrapper, of this magnificent account of Gibbings' work. Bibliography Wood-engraving Illustrated Book.

FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.xliv,355; tinted frontispiece on Japanese paper; 9 pages of half-tone plates and over 1000 wood engravings; a very good copy in original buckram, gilt, & printed acetate wrapper, of this magnificent account of Gibbings' work. Bibliography Wood-engraving Illustrated Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Full black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt device to front. In custom plastic cover with title printed on front in red lettering. Top edge green. xliv, 355 pp. Fully illustrated in B&W, plus coloured woodcut frontis. Some yellowing to plastic cover, worse at spine, and some chips to spine ends and corners. Bookseller sticker to foot of front pastedown, former ownership stamp to head of ffep. Otherwise a near fine copy of the engravings of Irish wood engraver and sculptor Robert Gibbings.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. From the library of poet William Matchett with his signature and date (1960) to the ffep. 4to. - over 9¾ in. - 12 in. xliv + 355pp., illustrated throughout with hundreds of b/w reproductions. Black cloth with gilt titles and decorative device on the spine. Light spotting along the top edges, else a nice clean Near Fine copy, in a Near Fine plastic jacket with red printed titles on the front. Laid in loose is the prospectus for the book.

, xliv, 355 pages, black and white engravings throughout, coloured frontispiece. Includes leaflet for Robert Gibbing Memorial Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1960 plus letter for press invitation to the event First Edition , spine faded with mark from label, dent to top front corner, slight fading and shadowing to front board, marks to endpapers from tape, library labels to endpapers, pages clean, good condition , black cloth, gilt title and illustration to spine, gilt monogram to front board, marbled endpapers, blue top edge , 29 cm x 23 cm Hardback ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. pp XLIV, 355. 1st printing. Top edge blue. Original clear plastic DJ included, slightly rubbed, otherwise fine. Book as new.