Shepherd J a Illus (5 results)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & bird illus to spine & front board, top page edges stained grey, deckled page edges, frontispiece, 326pp, illus, VG (light bruising & scuffing to extrems, light soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG- (moderate to heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some minor loss & archival tape repairs, moderate tanning to spine, light tanning & foxing/soiling, heavy crack to front spine hinge with tidy archival tape repair). …

Condition: Very Good. BINDING: Original pablishers pictorial covers. CONDITION: Covers little worn; o/w vg Size: 8vo. With Coloured and Black & White Plates and Illustrations By J. A. Shepherd. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. n.d. Illus. with 8 cold. plates, incl. frontis. and many b.w. drawings. 8vo. dec. cl. Bds. and spine faded and marked, spine split along rear hinge, contents a little shaken, occasional foxing, a fair reading copy.

274 pp. With Illustrations by J. A. Shepherd. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards. "Popular" Edition; No. 212. of 250 copies signed by Walter de la Mare. Old gift inscription in ink on front pastedown; gilt-lettered spine label worn at edges and dulled; otherwise a fine unopened copy.

Folio, First Edition, pages Japan folded, with coloured illustrated title and very numerous full-page and smaller coloured illustrations throughout, neat inscriptions (contemporary and later) on half-title, some light marginal age-staining to text; pictorial boards, green cloth back and corners, wire-stitched as issued, covers mildly age-soiled and frayed (but without major wear), stitches rusting slightly, expertly recased with new endpapers to style, a very good, bright, clean copy. Shepherd's charming illustrations of the three Foxhound puppies are among the finest of his animal sketches, and a cornerstone of animal caricature of the Edwardian period. THE ORIGINAL EDITION IS EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. …