Whistler Rex Illustrator (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Out of print. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Out of print. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Introduction by Lawrence Whistler. "The finest example of Rex Whistler's book illustration." A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. First Edition. Original blue gilt cloth and illustrated title page. A tight, clean, unmarked copy. In a Mylar jacket.

Condition: Very Good. 14 pages. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 147pp, owner's name and bookplate on endpapers, slight browning, contents clean and binding sound, decorated cloth covers browned and slight spine lean; Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. First American edition. 54 pages. 21 x 14 cm. The third book of poems by Laurence Whistler with tinted chapter head pieces designed by Rex Whistler. Backstrip sunned, corner and backstrip extremity wear, Orig. purple cloth front cover decorated and lettered in gilt. Very good. Whistler, Rex (illustrator). …

1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 147pp, 4 coloured plates, page edges browning, contents clean and binding sound, patterned boards and half-cloth, rebacked retaining most of original spine, pale staining on board edges, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 8th impression. Book has a lean with little wear to boards. Light toning to pages with spotting. DJ is toned with some edge wear.

hardback, 8vo, xx,147pp, decorations by Rex Whistler, owner's bookplate on endpaper, otherwise clean and tight, marbled boards and brown quarter cloth, leather title panel , Very Good condition in frayed glassine dustwrapper.

Reprint edition, good yellow cloth hardcover, No dj. 470p. b&w ill.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1954, 4to, 255 x 190 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, grey cloth with red cloth spine, gilt vignette to upper cover, gilt lettered spine, (44) pages. Mounted coloured frontispiece, 2 further mounted coloured plates, some black and white illustrations. No inscriptions, near Fine in very good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, very slightly marked, slightly darkened on spine, slightly worn at head of spine with minute chips, tiny nick at tail of spine, top corners just very slightly worn). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. …

Condition: Good. First edition (softcover). A portfolio containing 6 colour plates by Rex Whistler, housed in a grey card case with the titling printed in red on the front cover, and 1pp of text tipped inside the front cover. The plates are generally in very good condition (a couple have some light spotting); the covers are generally in good condition (some spotting, a little dusty).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition. Published by London: Harrison & Sons for H. M. Fletcher, (1970). Limited Edition. 2 page Introduction by Anthony Rota. Number '8' of only 100 sets printed on T.H. Saunders watermarked handmade paper from the original plates with 12 plates coloured by hand (by Len Dooley) according to the artist's original directions (74 sets were for sale with one set on vellum). Folio. 14.5 X 10.75 ins. Original half green morocco with paper covered boards. Interior drop-back box holding title page, 2 text pages, Colophon and 25 loose plates. Gilt title on the spine. A Fine set housed within a Very Good++ drop-back box which has some fading of the colouring to the spine and some light rubbing to the edges. The Gilt titling remains very bright. The 1930 Cresset Press edition of 'Gulliver's Travels', illustrated by Rex Whistler, is 'one of the most handsome books ever to be published in this country (England). And the illustrations are ravishing.' ('The Twentieth Century Book' by John Lewis). The illustrative style of Rex Whistler (1905-1944), which eschewed the experimentalism of the 1920s, found its inspiration in the 17th and 18th centuries and so was well matched to Swift's classic. Whistler employed his favourite device of setting most of the illustrations within a highly decorative rococo marginal frame. A beautiful set of plates. Very scarce. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Whistler, Rex (illustrator).…

[xx] + 147pp. + [i]. Dec. chapter headings, 6 collotype plates (with tissue guards) from drawings by Rex Whistler. E.ps. lightly spotted, ownership signature, light brown cloth backed hand-marbled boards with gilt title label to lightly faded spine, t.e.g. rest uncut. No. 458 of a Limited Edition of 660 Copies. US$74.…

xx + 153pp. + [iii]. Colour folding frontis., dec. chapter headings, 6 collotype plates (with tissue guards) from drawings by Rex Whistler. Blue cloth backed hand-marbled boards with gilt lettered label to faded spine, t.e.g. rest uncut. No. 444 of a Limited Edition of 660 Copies. US$74.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. Dust Jacket unclipped. Includes removeable plastic cover. Complete with numerous illustrations by Rex Whistler. 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.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed on front free endpaper "For Margaret, her husband and HER CHILDREN with all good wishes, from Christabel Aberconway July '67". Illustrated with 3 tipped-in color plates and numerous b/w pencil sketches by Rex Whistler. Near fine in dust wrapper, litte toned to spine, not price clipped. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.xiv; 210. Publisher's green cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Lacking dust-jacket. Signed by the author to flyleaf. Internally fine, edges toned with a few marks. Cloth lightly handled, gilt to spine a little dulled. Uncommon signed. Very good. Signed by Author.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Softback. Large 8vo. (12)pp. Numerous colour illustrations. Publishers colour pictorial soft card covers, comicalfigure man in black coat + cane + top hat seated in park at table with white cloth drinking wine glass of Guinness with beauties strolling by + floral border + brown ornate lettering on front. 2 staple hinges through. Covers : faint shelf knocks at corners else very clean. Contents : very cn. tight & unfoxed. Bright attractive copy. F-.…

1st Edition. Fine in very slightly soiled dust wrapper with a faint ring mark.

8vo, 470pp. Black & white illustrations. A good hardback copy with foxing to edges and offsetting to end papers. In a good, edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket with an age-toned spine. Open tearing to top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's details and previous bookseller's stickers.

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 2 further plates all colour-printed and tipped in, 17 further line drawings to the text, pp. [42], 4to, original quarter red boards with grey sides, Whistler vignette stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket price-clipped and a little nicked, a few tiny specks to fore-margin of front and rear panels, backstrip panel a little sunned, very good.…

dj. First Edition. A Brilliant Posthumous Collaboration by Rex and Laurence Whistler A Surreal and Witty Picture-Book of "Two-Faced Individuals" WHISTLER, Laurence. WHISTLER, Rex, illustrator. OHO! The Drawings by Rex Whistler. The Words by Laurence Whistler. Created Two-Faced Individuals. Now Exposed by The Bodley Head. London: The Bodley Head, 1946. First edition. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches; 241 x 184 mm.). [32] pp. Publisher's pictorial boards, in the matching pictorial dust jacket. Minor creasing to spine ends, otherwise a near fine copy. A charming and highly original collaboration between the brothers Rex and Laurence Whistler, issued just after Rex Whistler's death in 1944. The book presents a whimsical gallery of fantastical "two-faced individuals," pairing Rex Whistler's elegant, inventive, and faintly absurd drawings with Laurence Whistler's witty accompanying text. The result is a peculiarly English jeu d'esprit - at once playful, sophisticated, and touched with the slightly macabre humor that so often underlies Rex Whistler's best work. Though modest in format, OHO! is one of the more appealing postwar Whistler productions, preserving something of Rex Whistler's distinctive decorative genius in a light-hearted setting. His line remains unmistakable: graceful, eccentric, and theatrically assured, combining Regency fantasy with a modern comic sensibility.…

First edition. Illustrations, some colour, by Rex Whistler. 8vo. Half blue vellum with decorative paper boards, gilt title on spine. London, Cobden-Sanderson. Of an edition limited to 360 copies, this no. 325; one of 350 copies signed by Whistler. Bookplate of William Charlton Edwards to upper pastedown.  A fine copy, lacking dust jacket and boards with a few scuff marks. Spine faded.…

FIRST EDITIONS, each volume with 8 colour plates, the second with 17 sepia plates, further decorations, pp. 20, [36], foolscap 8vo, original stapled wrappers, repeating a cover design by Laurence Whistler, slightly sunned around the spine and with a few faint spots, the contemporary ownership inscription of Barbara Pym (Christmas 1947) to head of title-page and inside cover respectively, small ex libris label for Pym at foot of each inside front-cover, very good. The copies of novelist Barbara Pym, before any of her novels had been published. The text is provided by Cecil Beaton and Laurence Whistler in Part I, and James Laver in Part II.…