Reynolds Warwick Illus (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and tanning. Pages are clean.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed. Edge-block foxed. 190mm x 140mm (7" x 6"). vii, 301pp + ads.

192 pp. Illustrated by Warwick Reynolds; frontispiece in color. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth in dust jacket. First US edition. Very, very slight foxing to the preliminaries; spine a little tanned and spine lettering rubbed; tight and sound in a dust-soiled jacket with significant chips, tears and creasing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. xi, 291 p. 20 cm. Colour frontispiece by Haslehust matches front cover illustration. B&w line drawings in text by Reynolds. Blue cloth with pasted-on colour labels on cover and spine. Gold lettering. Front pastedown has pencil signature and ink stamp. Front free endpaper is darkened and has small book review pasted to it. Also some offsetting and soiling to rear free endpaper. Foxing to first pages, including frontispiece, tissue guard, and title page. Ink stamp repeated on half title. Mark on margin of p. 11. Sketches and essays by a Canadian author and social reformer. "Janey's" book portrays the early 20th-century Canadian west, with themes of nation-building, immigration, and life on the frontier. Better known under her married name, Emily Murphy, the author (18681933) made history as the first female magistrate in the British Empire. She was also leader of The Famous Five who championed the landmark Persons Case, ensuring Canadian women were legally recognized as "persons." Ernest William Haslehust (1866 1949) was a British landscape painter and book illustrator who usually worked in watercolours. Warwick Reynolds (1880-1926) is a lesser-known illustrator and cartoonist best-known for portraying animals.…