Romer Wilson Ed (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 8 colour plates and numerous black & white illustrations. All extremely clean and firm inside. The silver grey cloth covered boards with blue star decoration are firm with a little minor edge wear and slightly darkened spine. Brunton, Violet (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 431. 8 colour plates and numerous black & white illustrations. Text and plates clean and sound.The original publisher's silver grey cloth covered boards with blue star decoration are a little dulled and faintly marked with very minor nick at lower spine hinge with no loss; near VG. No inscriptions.…

Condition: Fair. 1929. First Edition. 432 pages. Silver jacket, with repeating design by Theyre Lee-Elliott and blue lettering, over grey cloth with blue lettering and publisher's colophon to spine. Top text block edge dyed black. With 8 colour plates (inc. frontis) and line illustrations by Violet Brunton. All plates present. Pages and plates have slight foxing, tanning; minimal thumbing. Slight gutter cracking. Binding firm. Prize plate FEP. Slight droplets to margins of frontis. Liquid stain to last 2 text pages (legible). Some liquid marks to edges (intruding a tad into page margins) and rear endpaper. Edges slightly foxed; faint red smudges, mild nicks. Boards have minor edge wear, with slight bumping to corners, spine ends. Notably dust-stained. Slightly bowed; mildly tanned spine. Slight edge stains. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with small tears, mild chips, and creasing; mildly shelf-worn. Narrow strip of loss to upper edge of rear panel, which is also liquid stained. Spine is sunned.…

First edition of the final work that Nielsen illustrated in full. Drawing on sources ranging from ancient Greece to 19th-century Europe, Red Magic is the last in a series of three collections of fairy tales arranged by Florence Wilson under her pseudonym Romer Wilson. "[Wilson's] collection of stories in all three volumes reflects an erudite mind bent on displaying cultural treasures - namely fairy tales to challenge readers. Wilson was one of the first anthologists of fairy tales to include major and minor fairy tales from all over the world with an evident intention to demonstrate the 'dazzling' power of the narratives she selected. The ethics and mystery of the tales drew her to them" (Zipes, pp. 2-3). Jack Zipes, "Introduction", Red Magic, 2023. Octavo. Colour frontispiece, 7 plates, illustrations within text, the majority full-page, all by Kay Nielsen. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device blocked on rear cover in blind, top edge red. Ticket of Times Book Club on rear pastedown. Spine toned, ends and corners bumped, foxing to contents: a very good copy.…

First edition, preceding the first American edition by a year, of the final book that Nielsen fully illustrated, in the uncommon dust jacket. Red Magic is the last in a series of three collections of fairy tales arranged by Florence Wilson, using her pseudonym Romer Wilson. The collection includes stories by Robert Southey, Charles Perrault, and Charles Dickens. Octavo. Colour frontispiece and 7 colour plates, 50 full-page illustrations and various vignettes to text, all by Kay Nielsen. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, publisher's device to rear panel in blind, top edge red, bottom edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. Neat contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Light rubbing to extremities, foxing to edges; jacket unclipped, spine sunned, chipped, closed tear to rear panel: a very good copy in good jacket.…