W G Raffe (38 results)
Published by A. S. Barnes and Company, 1964
- Hardcover
Seller: Collectors Cabinet, Teaneck, NJ, U.S.A.Collectors Cabinet
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover in dust jacket, 10 by 7 1/4 inches, 583 pages, illustrated. Ex library, I have removed th eclear plastic jacket and spine label. Jacket has slight wear, pages are clean apaprt from typical library marks including discharge stamp.

- Hardcover
Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.Abacus Bookshop
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hardcover. Condition: Fine. 2nd prt. Tall 8vo, 583 pp. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket. Well-illustrated (illustrator).
Published by NY: A.S. Barnes & Company, 1964., 1964
- Hardcover
Seller: Sara Armstrong - Books, Cedarville, CA, U.S.A.Sara Armstrong - Books
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583pp, (7x10 inches), b&w illustrations. Very Good/Fair, hardcover with dust jacket. The book itself is clean and tight, corners sharp, no markings. The jacket Is rubbed, and has tears and chips, including a smallish piece missing from head of spine, and a three inch creased tear (tape mended inside) on the rear panel. Now in DJ protector. Includes a bibliography of further readings, a geographical index, and an index of subjects relating to dance. Heavy book, international shipping will require extra charge.…

Published by A. S. Barnes and COmpany; Thomas Yoseloff, 1964
- Hardcover
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United KingdomWorld of Rare Books
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Add to basketCondition: Good. 1964. No edition remarks. 583 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over black cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Bright and clean pages with light tanning to text block edges. Binding is firm throughout with minor thumb-marking. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild tanning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Notable sunning to board edges. Unclipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Mild rubbing and marking all over.…

Published by New York: A. S. Barnes and Company / New York: Thomas Yoseloff Ltd, (1975). (1975)., 1975
- Hardcover
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. - Large octavo [10-1/4 inches high by 7-1/8 inches wide], black cloth titled in gilt in a dust wrapper. The head of the spine & the bottom corner of the front cover are bumped & the bottom edge of the cover is slightly faded. The dust jacket is rubbed with a few chips & short tears. 583 pages. Black-and-white illustrations. Very good in a good dust wrapper. 1975 reprint of the 1964 edition.Compiled, written and edited by W. G. Raffe, assisted by M. E. Purdon. …

- Hardcover
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United KingdomAnybook.com
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Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1400grams, ISBN:0498016439.…

Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1932
- Hardcover
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.Easy Chair Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 457 pages; illustrated. Ex-college library marks, some wear, faded spine. Rear hinge is cracked, pages age toned; a good working copy still. No jacket. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 232122.
Published by A S Barnes, New York, 1964
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Neil Williams, Bookseller, Victoria, BC, CanadaNeil Williams, Bookseller
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: VG/VG. First Edition. A unigue reference to every aspect of dance world-wide. Well illustrated in black and white. Tape repair to lower front of jacket cover, otherwise light wear. 583 pp.

Published by Barnes, New York, 1964
- Hardcover
Seller: Antiquariat Johann Forster, Friedenweiler, BW, GermanyAntiquariat Johann Forster
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Add to basketOLwd. mit OUmschl.. Condition: in gutem Zustand. (s. Foto). New York, Barnes, 1964. Gr.8°. 580 S. mit Abbildungen. OLwd. mit OUmschl., in gutem Zustand. (s. Foto). Sprache: eng.

- Hardcover
Seller: Banfield House Booksellers, Gympie, QLD, AustraliaBanfield House Booksellers
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 583 pages. Illustrated. Plastic wrapper.

- Hardcover
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, AustraliaAdelaide Booksellers
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Hardback. Reprint. Small Quarto Size. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A small amount of faint sticky tape residue to boards. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's name/details [very neatly] to front free endpaper. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 583 pages. …

Published by Barnes/Yoseloff, 1964
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United KingdomCotswold Internet Books
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Add to basket1964 1st edition with B&W illustrations; ex-library copy with usual stickers etc. to front free endpaper - also yellow marks possibly from glue; stamp to top page fore-edge; binding tight with small split along front hinge close to base. Dust jacket not price-clipped with wear and tear to edges and corners - back panel yellowed. Page fore-edges faintly discoloured; otherwise, a good, tidy copy with clean pages. Used - Good. Ex-lib hardback in Fair dust jacket Used - Good. Ex-lib hardback in Fair dust jacket.…
Published by A. S. Barnes & Co., 1964
- Hardcover
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United KingdomAnybook.com
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Add to basketCondition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1300grams, ISBN.…
Language: English
Published by Bridgman Publishers, 1928
- Hardcover
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.Shaker Mill Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Tight binding, solid green boards, purple spine strip with bright gilt lettering, lightly soiled top edge, otherwise clean, unmarked pages throughout.
Published by Chapman & Hall, 1927
- Hardcover
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United KingdomAnybook.com
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Add to basketCondition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN.…

Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1927
- Hardcover
Seller: Lost and Found Books, Healesville, VIC, AustraliaLost and Found Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated in colour and black and white. 22 cm. XI, 457 pages G. Good condition with light soiling and edge wear to covers, front endpaper neatly removed, some pencil underlining, foxing to top page edges, remainder mark on lower page edges.
More imagesPublished by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United KingdomThe Bookshop at Beech Cottage
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good++. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 40pp. Decorated with numerous full-page and in-text wood engravings by W. G. Raffé. Gift inscription on ffep "with love from the writer" and dated June 12th 1925. Printed on mould-made paper at The Shakespeare Head Press. Quarter bound with wheaten cloth. Black lettering on title label on spine. Toning to spine. Shelf wear to corners. Red border on title plate on front cover. Dusty covers but clean inside pages. Untrimmed lower page edges with some toning to tip of edges. W. G. Raffé (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…
More imagesPublished by Chapman and Hall, 1932
- Hardcover
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United KingdomHALCYON BOOKS
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Add to basketHardback. Condition: Very Good. First re-issued in cheap edition 1932. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Some soiling to covers. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Chapman and Hall, London, 1927
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Geert-Jan Mellink, Den Haag, NetherlandsGeert-Jan Mellink
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Guide for graphic design of commercial art. Illustrated with hundreds of black and white plates and in-text drawings, some of them in colour. Small (1 cm) tear at top of spine. Some browning of the endpaper. Very good copy in blue, cloth-covered board with gilt stamped title and stamping of a sower beneath. 22x14 cm.…
Published by Bridgeman Publishers, Pelham, New York, 1928
- Hardcover
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.Mullen Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. A green fabric casebound book with gilt text on a blue fabric spine. There is a mylar jacket. xi, 456 pages; profusely illustrated in black-and-white. VG/VG: Plate on the front pasted end page. Clean body pages and solid binding.

Language: English
Published by A.S. Barnes & Co with Thomas Yosselof Ltd., New York and London, 1975
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Eaglestones, Oudtshoorn, South AfricaEaglestones
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair - Shelf Bumped. Reissue. Writer assisted by M.E. Purdon. Comprehensive reference 583 pages, dance index. Size: Approx 7" Wide By 10" Tall.
Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1925
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: beckfarmbooks, HOLT, Norfolk, United Kingdombeckfarmbooks
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Add to basketCloth Backed Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The Shakespeare Head Press. Superb woodcuts by Raffe. 40 pages illustrated and decorated throughout. Plain buff coloured paper covered boards with cloth spine and printed paper labels on upper cover and spine. Covers slightly darkened, corners rubbed, some very light spotting to prelims. W.G.Raffe (illustrator).…

Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1925
- First Edition
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United KingdomLavender Fields Books PBFA
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. All books outside UK over £40 sent tracked and inside UK sent signed for. PayPal accepted. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press Stratford upon Avon, on hand made paper uncut at lower edge, quarter cloth bound boards a little darkened. Feint remains of inscription that has been erased on front endpaper. Covers a little marked in places. A little spotted to rear few blank pages. Illustrated with Wood Cuts By W G Raffe (illustrator).…
More imagesLanguage: English
Published by Bridgman Publishers, Pelham-New York, 1929
- First Edition
Seller: Geert-Jan Mellink, Den Haag, NetherlandsGeert-Jan Mellink
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Add to basketAudio Book (Cassette). Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition of this magnificient study of poster design and advertising art by W.G. Raffe. More then two hundred b/w illustrations, hundred half tone illustrations and seventy in full colour, twenty five of them tipped in. A beautiful, stunning and impressive book in near-as-new-condition. Slgiht discolouration of the spine with some rubbing. …

Language: English
- Hardcover
- Print on Demand
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, IndiaS N Books World
Contact seller5-star sellerLeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 88. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1922 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 88.…
More imagesPublished by Chapman and Hall, London, 1932
- Hardcover
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Condition: Used - Good
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Good. The second edition of W. G. Raffe's impressive study of poster design and illustration in advertising, featuring over one-hundred and seventy illustrations. The 1932 reissued 'cheap edition' of this work, first published in 1929.Illustrated with seventy colour plates - twenty five of which are tipped in, one of which is folding - alongside one-hundred further half tone plates, and numerous further vignette illustrations. Collated, complete.A fascinating and beautifully illustrated study of the 'vital modern art' of printed and painted posters, by W. G. Raffe. With information on methods of poster production, and an analysis of the contributors to the art form. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Discolouration to back strip, with handling marks to boards. Ink stains to front board. Internally, binding lightly strained to centre of text block. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd pencil notation or handling mark. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…
More imagesPublished by London ;- Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1932
- Hardcover
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United KingdomHALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. A Fine example. Thick Royal 8vo. Hardback. Original salmon cloth, lettered black. Superbly illustrated with stunning tipped-in colour plates aswell as black & white illustrations. xvi + 224pps. Bright, fresh and unmarked - Superb .
Published by Chapman and Hall, Ltd, London, 1932
- Hardcover
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.Mullen Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with black titles. xvi, 224 pages, [220] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Some illustrations are colored, some are folded and some are mounted./ "Printed by the Whitefriars Press at Tonbridge A.D. 1929. Reissued in cheap edition A.D. 1932."/ Includes index./ Publisher's advertisement: p. 224. G+. Splitting to the cloth at front and rear joint, assumedly repaired with glue. Water damage to the top 1/4th of real panel. Light wear around edges. Binding is a little loose, but still secure. …
More imagesNumber Three Joy Street: A Medley of Prose & Verse for Boys and Girls
Walter de la Mare; G. K. Chesterton; A. A. Milne; Laurence Housman; Compton Mackenzie; Hilaire Belloc; Hugh Chesterman; Et al.
Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1925
- Hardcover
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United KingdomRooke Books PBFA
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The first American edition of the third Joy Street annual, a richly illustrated children's anthology featuring A. A. Milne, Walter de la Mare, G. K. Chesterton, and many others, in the scarce original pictorial dust wrapper. In the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. First American edition, published in 1925, following the British first edition issued by Basil Blackwell earlier the same year. Illustrated with eight tipped-in colour plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations by Vera Hibbert, Doris Palthorpe, A. H. Watson, Hugh Chesterman, Harry Rountree, W. G. Raffe and others. Collated, complete. Complete with the scarce original unclipped pictorial dust wrapper, designed by Alec Buckels. The third volume in the Joy Street series, an annual anthology of prose and verse for children, bringing together stories, poems and imaginative pieces by a distinguished group of contemporary writers In the publisher's original patterned cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Slight fading to spine with slight rubbing to extremities resulting in minor fading to the pattern. Very slight discolouration to perimeters of boards with one or two very slight marks. Dust wrapper, generally smart. Slight edge wear to extremities resulting in the odd chip, closed tear, and crease, more so to spine ends, with slight loss. Spine slightly sunned. Minor rubbing to wraps. Slight colour offsetting to inside wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with light age toning to fore edge. Near Fine. Vera Hibbert; Doris Palthorpe; A. H. Watson; Hugh Chesterman; Harry Rountree; W. G. Raffe; Et al. (illustrator). book.…

Published by London : Chapman and Hall, 1929
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star seller1st edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked, blind-bordered cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Frontispiece loose. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xvi, 224 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some color, part mounted), 27 cm. Notes: Advertising matter: p. 224. Subjects: Posters; Commercial art; Affiches; Advertising, Art in; Art and industry; Design. 1 Kg.…