Patience Empson (49 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Very Good jacket (price clip). First Edition, Limited to 975 copies. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1962. Fine condition in a Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is price clipped with light soil/spotting on its spine. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Hinges…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Near Fine jacket (price clip). First Edition, Limited to 975 copies. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1962. Fine condition in a Near Fine dust jacket (price clipped). Protected by a removable mylar clear-plastic sleeve. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Hinge…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xliv., 355 pages, colour frontis., nine pages of half tones and over 1000 engravings, list of galleries holding works, list of books illustrated. Bound in the publisher's black cloth, gilt block to upper board, gilt titling to spine. In the original…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8-3/4" x 11-1/4", xliv + 305pp. Sewn binding in black cloth boards. Wrapped in vinyl dust jacket with title block stamped onto it in red; there is a closed 4" tear from the top of the spine hinge on the back cover, and some rubbing / shelf wear to the jacket. A copy o…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition hardback, PVC dustjacket with title screen printed in red to front. Colour frontis on Japanese paper. 9 pages of half-tones and over 1000 wood engravings. Full black buckram with RG's device blocked in gold to front and gilt spine titling.Ve…

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 clo…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4to, pp. xliv, 355, original black cloth with gilt lettering and device in original mylar cover with red lettering, this with split to top of spine and marked, spine slightly faded, interior with inscription to ffep, some mild foxing to opening and closing pag…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to xliv - 355 pp, tinted frontispiece on Japanese paper; 9 pages of half-tone plates and over 1000 wood engravings, with the loose folding illustrate prospectus. The contents clean and tight with no inscriptions, pictorial engraved bookplate of R.E…

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, or…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated Edition. Edited by Patience Empson. Introduction by Thomas Balston. Colour frontispiece, nine pages of half-tones and over 1000 engravings. First Edition. 4to. [284 x 222 x 36 mm]. xliv, 355 pp. Bound in the publisher's black cloth, gilt block on fron…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK 1st edition 1st impression - J.M. Dent & Sons 1959 This is a curated collection of Robert Gibbings' finest wood engravings, with over 1000 b/w in text illustrations, as well as a colour frontispiece entitled The Retreat From Serbia on Japanese paper, a…

Condition: Sehr gut. First Edition. Quarto (213 cm wide x 28 cm high) Pagination: Colour-frontispiece on Japanese paper, XLIV, 355 pages [with over 1000 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings and 16 pages of "Recollections by the Artist"]. Original Hardcover (Buckram) with the original publisher's clear jacket with Red Lettering. A…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated bibliographical work on the art of Robert Gibbings, limited to nine hundred and fifty copies. First edition. Limited to nine hundred and fifty copies. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and sevente…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 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 bo…

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: A touch faded at the spine of the binding, a decent copy otherwise; ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 2.4kg. overseas shipping will require additional postage . ### First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gi…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Used. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1959 Quandrangle (Dent) large format hardcover in clear acetate jacket, stamped on front pastedown otherwise clean tight and unmarked, oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books se…

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 plast…

4to, (285mm), xliv,355p. Colour frontispiece printed on Japanese paper & 1027 monochrome illustrations (including 19 photogravure plates of copper-engravings and sculpture). A very good copy in original cloth, gilt device on the front cover, glacine dustjacket lettered in red, slipcase. With a copy of the illustrated 6 page pros…