Smithson Helen Illustrations (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG+. Very light wear to slipcase. Book is pristine inside and out. Photo is of the actual book you will receive. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

Glossy Pictorial Boards. Condition: NEAR FINE (NEAR BRAND NEW). Illustrations By Helen Smithson (illustrator). Second Printing 1996. Please Email for further details Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Not Signed or Inscribed.

Illustrations by Helen Smithson. (illustrator). First thus. Fine in near fine publisher's slipcase with small scuffs to front and rear panels. Illustrated boards in publisher's slipcase.

Condition: Good. Original decorated cloth, illustrated with b/w drawings, board slipcase, 8vo; Occasionally foxed on top cut.

Condition: Good. Original decorated cloth, illustrated with b/w drawings, board slipcase, 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A cityscape, silhouette design on a grey coloured background, hardback book, with titles on the spine, covered with a rippled, translucent cling film cover. The book is in excellent condition, looks like its hardly been used or read. Normal wear and marks apply consistent with use or age. 233 pages plus a few blank pages, all pages intact, good strong tight binding, all pages, text and illustrations are in fabulous, clean, readable order. Printed on Hamilton Wove Paper by St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St. Edmunds, Bound by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh. Another excellent book from The Folio Society.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Folio Society Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in gold pictorial cloth boards with black lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 276pp. B/w frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout. Housed in plain gold card slipcase. Not library copy, no inscriptions, few marks to slipcase. (25/1).

1998. (Hardcover in slipcase) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 104pp. Color illustrated cloth in a near fine burgundy slipcase. Color illustrated title page, black and white and color illustrations. There are minor marks to the front cover, a few small pencil notations in the table of contents, pages 9-10 are slightly soiled at the bottom corner, and the slipcase has sticker residue on the bottom edge. "A Child's Garden of Verses is a pioneering and unique work. It is the first published book in the world that is a set of poems that are at one and the same time written in the voice of a child, written as fragments of an autobiography and written specifically with a child audience in mind" - from the Introduction. Illustrations by Helen Smithson. Introduction by Michael Rosen. (Poetry, Juvenile, Poetry).

2007. (Hardcover in slipcase) Fine, no dust jacket. 331pp. Black covers illustrated with orange and white in a fine black slipcase. Color illustrated frontispiece, color illustrations. "Apparently Daphne du Maurier hated Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of her story, 'The Birds'. She was baffled as to why the great director had distorted it as he had. The difference between the story and the film is striking, though less in the depiction of the birds' inexplicably aggressive behaviour than in the characters who confront it, and where it all happens" - from the Introduction. Illustrations by Helen Smithson. Introduction by Patrick McGrath. (Mystery, Mysteries, Short Stories, Suspense Thriller).

2001. (Hardcover in slipcase) Fine, no dust jacket. 768pp. Illustrated covers and spine in a near fine black slipcase. Color frontispiece, color illustrations. The slipcase has a small bump on one corner. "Billy Weaver had travelled down from London on the slow afternoon train, with a change at Swindon on the way, and by the time he got to Bath it was about nine o'Clock in the evening and the moon was coming up out of a clear starry sky over the houses opposite the station entrance" - from the text. Includes Kiss Kiss, Over to You, Someone Like You & Switch Bitch. Illustrations by Helen Smithson. (Fiction, Short Stories, Stories).