Percy Buckman (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ. First. Some light foxing and tanning throughout. Small chips to dust jacket otherwise good clean copy. Part of the Universal Art Series edited by Frederick Marriott.

Condition: Good. 1926. No edition remarks. 264 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains ex-libris plate. Contains black and white photographic plates. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and mild foxing throughout. Heavy tanning to endpapers. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to half title page. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Moderate tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Notable scratching and marking to boards. Moderate water stains to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. xx, 264pp. Several minor dings to extremities of volume, with light to medium wear in places, including several tiny tears to cloth at extremities, though none of this wear is terribly offensive. Light internal soiling to just a few leaves. Blind stamp to first leaf, with some erasure marks to front free endpaper. Volume nicely illustrated in black and white. Binding is a little tender, with some spacing near hinges. Will require a little care in handling to maintain the integrity of the binding. With this volume, due to how it was constructed, it is difficult to find copies that don't suffer from this condition. Overall, a nice, clean, and attractive copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition large 8vo, illustrated, published in The universal Arts series. Dark blue with decorative pale blue-green to front and spine, blue page tops, minor abraded wear to extremities, slight forward lean, sound binding, a signature to fep, rough page edges, bep top corner missing, very good reading condition.

Universal Art Series. Hardback. Ex Library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn boards. xx + 263pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. hardback book in near fine condition,from the [universal art series].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A bright copy.

1st edition hardback in decorated cloth Nice copy octavo xx + 264pp., col. frontis., b/w pls., index, The author a physicist makes a link between crop circles and megalithic stone circles.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition - published in the Universal Art Series - edited by Frederick Marriott. With black and white illustrations throughout. Tissue-guarded and titled colour frontispiece by Hans Holbein The Younger showing the famous miniature portrait of Queen Anne of Cleves, who was to become the fourth wife of Henry VIII - based on her beauty that was represented by this miniature, he married her. This miniature portrait has not hitherto (before this book was published in 1927) ever been reproduced in colour. ***Near fine in blue cloth-covered boards with white titles and border decorations to the spine and front board. The boards are clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper over the last 99 years. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Boards edges very slightly rubbed with a light crease to the bottom edge of the front board. Top edge of text-block stained dark blue by the publisher to match the boards. Fore-edge and bottom edge of page block rough-cut (untrimmed). No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions - just some soft pencil lines marking interesting passages of text - (could very easily be rubbed out). Off-setting to the front and rear endpapers. No inscriptions or markings in pen. No foxing. Printed on thick quality laid-paper. Interior pages clean. ***In a very good indeed light blue printed dustwrapper, decorated with dark blue borders to the front panel and spine, with the publisher's printed price of 21/- net on the spine (a very high price for 1926!). The dustwrapper is complete, with just slight loss at the top and tail of the spine. Corners of dustwrapper slightly rubbed with minuscule loss. Edges slightly rubbed, creased and nicked. Spine of dustwrapper browned. No serious creases or tears. ***(xx) plus 264 pages including appendix and index of names at the back of the book. 236mm x 156mm. ***A very detailed, profusely illustrated book on the art of the miniature painter - very uncommon to find in the original dustwrapper, especially so well-preserved. A beautiful book. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Decorated Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 9 vols. Attractive uniform set of the UNIVERSAL ART SERIES from Chapman and Hall. All bound in blue decorated cloth, clean and tidy, sharp and bright, with minor rubbing. Clean throughout. All books have had their endpapers removed, otherwise I would have described this set as near fine to fine. Nevertheless, they present well and all plates are intact. The publication dates are as follows: THE ART OF CARVED SCULPTURE VOL I and II (1931); CARICATURE (1928); SCULPTURE OF TODAY VOL I and II (1921); THE ART OF ILLUSTRATION (1921); THE ART OF DECORATIVE PAINTING (1927); THE ART OF THE MINIATURE PAINTER (1926); ADVERTISEMENT DESIGN (1927). A lovely set at a good price, at less then £9 per volume. Postage rates will reflect the weight of the set. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover - Good / Good - , clean, no marks, clean inside, no dj - from a private collection - clean, some wear to spine, slightly loose.

Hardcover. Originalleinenband gr. 8°. xx, 264 Seiten. Mit farbigem Frontispiz und weiteren Abbildungen auf Tafeln. Gefärbter Kopschnitt. Unbeschnittener Fuß- und Seitenschnitt. Einband, Kanten berieben, teils bestoßen. Buchblock vor dem Apendix gebrochen, keine losen oder fehlenden Seiten. Gebräunt, noch guter fester Zustand. Universal Art Series. in englischer Sprache (in english).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Oversized hard cover in very good condition, with a thin, clear, protective jacket. General shelf and handling wear, including light tanning to board edges, tanning and minor foxing to pageblock. Within, pages are firmly bound, content unmarked. Coloured plates are vibrant and true. CN.