Philip James Intro (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated by HOFFMAN, .lawrence dj design (illustrator). first edition". VERY GOOD CONDITION IN GOOD UNCLIPT(S12.50) DUST JACKET.Clean, solid, bright hardcovers, with nice DJ showing 2" taped edge tear.OW nice DJ. Dark green endpapers. ; GOLD TITLES IN BLue cloth hard covers . WHITE & BLUE & YELLOW TITLES ON BRIGHT BLACK GLOSSY DUST JACKET. ; 763pg pages; short biog piece by J.B. 50 other articles by various authors in 7 sections. / Holocaust & after; EAST & WEST; Light of History; GROUPS; THOUGHT I CRISIS; WRITING; AMERICAN PREDICAMENT;

Hard Cover. Condition: vg+. 11-5/8" square; Contents: Christopher Wren, St. Paul's; Joze Plecnik, Church of the Sacred Hearta, & Yadao Ando, Church on the Water & Church of Light; 180 pages unpaged; color & b/w photos; glossy color photo paper over boards; grey backstrip. Hardcover.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Printing. Gray cloth, lettered in gold foil. xix,375 pp., illus. with color + b&w plates. As issued. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Printing. Gray cloth, lettered in gold foil. xix,375 pp., illus. with color + b&w plates. As issued. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ivory 1/4 cloth, dark blue cloth-effect paper-covered boards, lettered in white. Ivory portions of binding toned, mild rubbing to corners. [iv],166 pp., 182 illus. including many color plates. Front flap of DJ laid in, otherwise lacking. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ivory 1/4 cloth, dark blue cloth-effect paper-covered boards, lettered in white. Mildly rubbed along edges. Slight foxing to a few early and late leaves. [iv],166 pp., 182 illus. including many color plates. Dust jacket somewhat soiled, with toned spine panel showing small bit of loss, closed tear extending across a portion of top front binding corner, now in mylar. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ivory 1/4 cloth, dark blue cloth-effect paper-covered boards, lettered in white. Mildly rubbed along edges and corners, with minor exposure at bottom front corner, spine panel somewhat toned by age. Endpapers toned, interior otherwise clean and intact, printed on glossy coated paper. [iv],166 pp., 182 illus. including many color plates. Dust jacket (sized approx. 1/8" taller than binding) rather soiled, with chipped spine extremities, 1" loss at head of spine, edge chips, now in archival mylar. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 3rd imp. 8vo. Rusty staples light soiling to covers. Pencil drawings to page 27 and rear. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. London: Council for the Encouragement of. 8vo. Pp. 27. Orig. wrappers. Printed by the Curwen Press. Substantial introduction and 144 entries.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. London: Council for the Encouragement of. 8vo. Pp.24. Plates. Illusts. 162entries. Wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London, Glasgow: Collins, in association with Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, 1983. First edition. 160p. Illustrated in colour throughout. With an introduction by John Julius Norwich. A very good copy in a similar price-clipped dust jacket. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: DJ Near Fine. Size: Large Octavo.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 23x16cm, 25pp. Stapled into a cream paper wrapper, Maillol illustration printed to the front, eight monochrome photographic plates and line-block reproductions of drawings. Catalogue of an exhibition organised by CEMA (the predecessor of the Arts Council of Great Britain) at the National Gallery, London, containing 162 entries. Printed at the Curwen Press. Very Good (small creases, a small tear to the front wrapper and p1-2 foredge and some light grubbiness to the wrapper).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Ardizzone, Edward (illustrator). Staple-bound softback in very good condition, from the collection of Paul Wallraff, (1890-1981); his bookplate is adhered to FEP. The cover features an illustration by Edward Ardizzone, though whilst tanned, remains colourful. From the collection of Ian Angus, former librarian at King's College, London, and deputy librarian at University College, London. General shelf and handling wear, including creasing and tanning to cover, with age-related discolouration to rear cover. Pageblock is tanned, leading lightly onto page edges. Within, pages are firmly bound, content unmarked. CN.

Imperial octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Art exhibition catalogue, illustrated with one colour and numerous black& white plates, as well as a tipped-in artist portrait. Covers show slight rubbing/loss at tips and spine ends. Otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat. 8+8[plates]pp.

Imperial octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 21x14cm, 28pp. Stapled into a cream paper wrapper, decorative border printed in brown to the front, with 4pp Supplement to the Catalogue laid-in. Catalogue of an exhibition organised by CEMA (the predecessor of the Arts Council of Great Britain) at the National Gallery, London, containing 144 entries in the main list and a further 39 in the supplement. Considering the date, the scale and ambition of the coverage, from Thomas Bewick to Barnett Freedman, seems remarkable. Printed at the Curwen Press. Very Good (slight darkening to the wrapper).

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 28 pages. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. BUT annotated in pencil.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Publisher Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1956. Very Good condition. Exhibition catalogue in pink card covers with red and black lettering and design on front cover. Tight binding, all pages intact, signature on front cover and title page, otherwise no markings or inscriptions. 48 b/w plates.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). 1st Edition. Square 8vo. Staple bound paperback published in conjunction with the Festival of Britain in 1951. Square 8vo. Original paper wrappers with cover by Edward Ardizonne. Illustrated with 16 photographs reproduced from exhibition. On verso of front cover is the Surrealist bookplate of Andrew Murray. Former owner inscription. H W Perl London July 15th 1951 in ink. (Possibly the author/ artist, 1897-1952) The cover is a little dusty and toned else a very good copy. Size 23 x18cm (9 x 7 inches) Provenance: Andrew Murray, Director of Mayor Gallery, Cork Street, London. The Mayor Gallery exhibited Ardizzone s work in the 1960 s. Andrew Murray lent his personal collection of books and prints etc. to the travelling exhibition by Middlesbrough Museum in 1982.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. W. S. Gilbert (illustrator). First edition. A beautiful limited edition of W. S. Gilbert's delightful 'Bab Ballads', with a handwritten letter from Hilary Jenkinson to Philip James, contesting James's interpretations of Gilbert's illustrations. A limited edition of English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator W. S. Gilbert's collection of light verse, with this being one of 1,500 copies produced.The first edition to feature an introduction from Hesketh Pearson, and an essay on Gilbert as an illustrator by Philip James.With vignette illustrations by Gilbert himself throughout.With a two leaf loosely inserted handwritten signed letter about the work from Hilary Jenkinson, a British archivist and archival theorist, regarded as the figure most responsible for bringing continental European concepts of archival theory to the English-speaking world.The letter is addressed to Philip James, who writes on Gilbert's powers as an illustrator in this volume. He states 'I am very glad to have that charming Gilbert book [.] I am a little out of sympathy, I confess, with your last sentence. I concede the sentimental streak in Gilbert but that does not seem to be incompatible with that peculiar form of extravagance [.] and would Gilbert have stood for having his drawings improved by the engravers?'.The Bab Ballads became famous on their own, as well as being a source for plot elements, characters and songs that Gilbert used in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with pictorial onlay to front board centre. Fading to back strip, otherwise externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Two leaves of handwritten letters loosely inserted. Near Fine. book.

FIRST EDITION THUS; octavo black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, x+380pp., VG+ (tidy ex-library: the ONLY marking is a stamp to the fep; other flaw are small pen markings to the contents, otherwise very tidy: light tanning to pages) in d/w VG+ (light scuffing and creasing, a touch of fading to spine).