Simon Combes (81 results)

Condition: Very Good. Simon Combes (illustrator). 1753699258. 7/28/2025 10:40:58 AM.

Simon Combes (illustrator). ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1989). 1989 1st edition. Large 4to (248 x 314mm). Pp143. Colour paintings, b/w illustrations. Light grey boards, spine titled in gilt. Very good in slightly rubbed dust-wrapper. Collection of the author's Kenyan wildlife paintings and sketches, accompanying his autobiography. .

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. A few small marks or stains to the page edges/pages . Minor shelf wear.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Simon Combes (illustrator). 143 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 459912.

Condition: Good. illustrated edition. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Très bon. Légères traces d'usure sur la couverture. Salissures sur la tranche. Jaquette abîmée. Edition 1989. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Very good. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Stains on the edge. Damaged dust jacket. Edition 1989. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.92.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Colour plates and black and white illustrations throughout. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in Great Britain, 1989. Colour and black and white text illustrations throughout. Special edition bound in Chieftan Goatskin Morocco and limited to 150 copies worldwide. Has an extra signed illustration of a cheetah on the inside of the front free endpaper. Full red Morocco with gilt decorations and lettering. The binding has some very light scuff marks and has a short narrow indentation to the rear cover. Generally in very good + condition. 143 p. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First English edition. Quarto. 143pp. Spine ends and corners bumped, near fine in near fine dust jacket with edges lightly rubbed. Inscribed by the author on the half-title.

Condition: Good. 1989. No edition remarks. 143 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over grey cloth. Colour illustration plates. Flat signed by author to half-title page. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Some mild marks and staining to surfaces. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First and only edition of this work limited (though unnumbered) to subscribers of The Connoisseurs Collection. A near fine copy with some light notices of shelving. Large quarto, 84 pages, decorative endpapers. Satisfaction guaranteed. Photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 168pp. Landscape format. Grey boards with dark grey titles and colophon to front cover and spine in unclipped dustwrapper. Beautifully illustrated throughout. Author's signature to title page. Clean tight and bright. A lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Combes, Simon (illustrator). 1st Edition. Near fine unread condition oversized (folio, over 12 inches tall) blue cloth boards with silver spine lettering contained in a near fine condition price-clipped color photoraphic dust jacket. Includes Foreword; Author's Acknowledgments; An African Experience; and Publisher's Acknowledgments. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. The rear outer jacket has some indents, a bit of which has transferred to the rear outer board, none of which is noticeable except under bright light; the volume and dust jacket are both in otherwise fine unread condition. "This is an unorthodox book. Coffee table presentations of African wildlife almost invariably consist of photographs and, from a first glance, the reader could be forgiven for thinking that these pictures ARE photographs. Incredulity might follow until the chance arises to make a comparison of the two. Then it is revealed that Simon Combes' animals are swollen with a life, and warmth, that no Nikon or Hasselblad can capture. A second and unlikely revelation is that the book isn't so much about art, as about fun and adventure. A cracking good read with little room left over for artistic technicalities. One suspects that Simon may be harboring trade secrets, but, he says, that's just the way things turned out. People who commission paintings of African wildlife call for the dramatic or, in the case of an admirer who requested a cheetah up a tree, the unlikely. But never, it seems, the humble warthog, baboon or hippo. And nobody wants a drooling hyena gazing down from the dining room wall. So to balance things up, and to demonstrate a highly-honed draughtsmanship that owes nothing to the camera, a number of pencil sketches are included. Simon's story is rich in encounter with wildlife, yet he writes with the restraint of one whose years of familiarity with the bush don't call for elaboration, or undue speculation as to danger. Rather his observations and anecdotes build up on each other to create a rich background against which to enjoy individual tales for a second and third time, and encourage the reader to look at a painting a little longer, for this will reveal exquisite detail that may have been missed, or taken for granted. That is a sad note, for comparatively recently it may have seemed that the Africa portrayed here could, itself, be taken for granted." - from the inner front jacket flap.