Shepard Ernest Illustrates (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST COLOUR SHEPARD EDITION. Large 8vo. (9.5 x 6.4 inches). Originally published in 1931 with uncoloured line drawings. Colour map endapers. A thin white line blanking out a previous owner name on the top of the front free endpaper otherwise a very good clean copy in publishers tan cloth boards with blind stamped illustration of Toad smoking a cigar to front board. Spine lettered in gilt. Some light spots to the front board but generally very good. Original dustwrapper has a few minor creases to the edges and whole wrapper has toned just a little over the years but is generally bright and clean. Overall a very good copy of this classic tale, all the better for the wonderful colour illustrations. -- Ernest Shepard coloured his own line illustrations for this new edition. He also at the same time coloured his illustrations for the Winnie the Pooh books of A. A. Milne.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. FIRST EDITION with Ernest Shepard illustrations. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). 8pp of publishers adverts at end, dated October 31. A very good copy, illustrated throughout with Shepard`s beautiful line drawings. Finely bound in recent full dark green morocco leather binding, spine with raised bands, the compartments ruled and decorated in gilt. Two Navy blue labels, lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. Original dark green cloth front cover, showing Toad, Ratty and Mole, all in gilt, bound in at rear. Shepard's map endpapers bound in front and rear. ----- The thirty eighth edition overall, this is the first to feature the wonderful drawings by Shepard which haven't been out of print since. After his drawings for the A. A. Milne Pooh books, these are Shepard's most enduring, & endearing, illustrations.…

First edition with these illustrations. Octavo. ppxii, 166. Drawings in black and white and in silhouette. Four pages of adverts at rear. Pictorial cloth. Childhood reminiscences.Some darkening to endpapers. Spine faintly tanned. Near fine in very good, chipped and slightly rubbed dustwrapper with a few closed tears at top edge.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST COLOUR EDITION. 1st printing. Large 8vo (9.5 x 6.4 inches). A neat two line inscription on the blank free endpaper otherwise a bright and clean copy of the book in the publishers orange cloth with gilt lettering to the spine and illustrations of the characters to the front board. In a near to very good colour illustrated dustwrapper. There is some minor rubbing to the extremities and couple of small closed tears, without any loss, otherwise a clean and bright example. Colour map endapapers. Overall a very good copy of this classic. --- Originally published in 1928, uncoloured, Shepard coloured his own line illustrations for this edition.…

First edition. Royal octavo. 95 pages. Cloth-backed pictorial paper boards. The verses are copiously illustrated throughout in black and white. Loosely inserted is a flyer for the exhibition of the original drawings at the Sporting Gallery, Covent Garden, in December 1925.Signed on the title-page by the artist and the author.Spine slightly faded. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.…

First edition with these illustrations. Octavo. pp xii, 166. Drawings in black and white and in silhouette. Pages unopened.Number 36 of 250 copies printed on rag paper, signed by the author and the artist and bound in quarter vellum with marbled boards, top edge gilt.Endpapers faintly tanned. Very near fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST COLOUR EDITION. Large 8vo (9.5 x 6.4 inches). Originally published in 1928, uncoloured, Shepard coloured his own line illustrations for this new edition. A fine clean copy in fine leather binding of recent full dark green morocco. Spine with five raised bands, the compartments ruled, decorated, and lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. Colour map endpapers bound in at front and rear. Overall a lovely copy of this classic.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION with Ernest Shepard illustrations. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.3 inches). Aside from some brown marking to one page, this is generally a very good copy, illustrated throughout with Shepard`s beautiful line drawings. Finely bound in recent full dark green morocco leather binding, spine with raised bands, ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. Original dark green cloth front cover, showing Toad, Ratty and Mole, all in gilt, bound in at rear. ----- The thirty eighth edition overall, this is the first to feature the wonderful drawings by Shepard which haven't been out of print since. After his drawings for the A. A. Milne Pooh books, these are Shepard's most enduring, & endearing, illustrations.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST COLOUR EDITIONS. First impressions. Four volumes. Large 8vo (9.5 x 6.4 inches). Originally published between 1924 and 1928, uncoloured, Shepard coloured his own line illustrations for these editions with Winnie the Pooh and House at Pooh Corner issued in 1973 and 1974 respectively and the other two volumes both first issued much later, in 1989. Pooh Corner in original red cloth and the other three in dark blue cloth, all with either gilt or silver illustrations to the front boards and lettering to the spines. Decorative colour endpapers in all, two with maps of 100 Aker Wood an surrounding area, the other two with images of the characters. All four books in the original colour illustrated dustwrappers, three with the price clipped from the inside front flaps. Some rubbing to the extremities of the two earlier volumes, the later two in near fine condition. A minor crease to the top of the first 30 pages of Winnie the Pooh. Overall a very good set of these hugely popular books, which haven't been out of print since first published in the 1920's and here as all first printings published with Shepard's colouring to his drawings. A lovely set.…