Sir Isaac Pitman Sons Ltd (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover copy with no dustjacket, 279 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8th edition. Boards have little wear and light toning. Crack to front hinge. Pages tanned with spotting.

Softcover. Condition: Good. 63 p. 22 cm. Stapled. Dampstain to lower rear cover and bottom corners.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Not dated, edition not known. In very good brown covers, black titles and decoration on front, and black titles to spine cloth; quite tight, unmarked covers; spine cloth ends frayed, front tail corner bumped. Both the maps on the free end papers are slightly tanned.; the maps on the paste downs are clean. Tanned cut edges, slight foxing on fore edge. The text block is good, with firm pages, light foxing on some pages, a few grubby marks. With three coloured maps, seven black and white maps and many black and white illustrations, (including frontispiece). Name and address on page facing title page. Scarce.

Both items concern John Littlejohn's 'British Watercolour Painting and Painters of Today' (Pitman, 1931). Note of 18 December 1930: 12mo, 1 p. Five lines. Good on lightly aged paper. Thanking the publishers for sending 'the prints of my drawings [.] they are really very well done!' Letter of 13 February 1931: 12mo,1 p. Eight lines. Good, on lightly creased paper. Thanking the publishers for four presentation copies of the book. 'It is a handsome book and the drawings are well reproduced: I am particularly pleased with those of my own drawings.' Two items,