Wright Richard Wilson John (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. 288pp. Stated: "First American Edition 1968". Blue boards with brilliant gilt lettering on spine. Glossy dustwrapper not price-clipped ($4.95), in full front cover alternating blue and green horizontal stripes for names of conversants superimposed in white letters, split title lettering in white over purple across top and bottom front cover, enclosing list of conversants. Only slightest hint of thin line rubbing across top of spine; one place on front cover top edge where a finger caught the dw edge and bent it back with residual nugatory, aspiring curved crease; some intermittent minor, small spot purplish ink smudges to white of rear cover (perhaps incurred during manufacture of purple dw itself): Now in Brodart mylar, which forgives these insolent peccadilloes mightily. Solid copy. Appears Unread: tight binding, sharp corners, no rubbing wear, no previous owner names. Clean text.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Single Issue In Original Wrappers. Light Wear, Bright, Foxing On Edges Of Page Block, Some Fading To Spine Panel.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 2004 Historic England large format paperback edition. Some reading wear else good condition. In addition to a detailed description of the boat itself, the book explores the method of its consruction, its original form, capabilities and performance, and its function and place in Bronze Age society. It presents new and innovative techniques for the study of ancient timbers and describes an experiment in building a copy of the boat using replicas of Bronze Age tools.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Number 141 of 300 copies. Signed by illustrator John Wilson who provided the aquatint etchings. The Limited Editions Club Newsletter dedicated to this book is laid in. Oblong folio. Plates printed on handmade paper. Each copy bound by hand by Carol Joyce at here Academy Bindery. Fine copy. In clamshell case. Case shows some wear and discoloration, including a streak to the bottom edge. John Wilson (etchings) (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. DESCRIPTION: Oblong folio 16 W x 12 1/4 H inches (400 W x 305 H mm, 73 pp. Limited edition, No. 143 of 300 copies. Letterpress printed in Monotype Plantin by David Wolfe of Portland, Maine. With four aquatint illustrations by African-American artist John Wilson, printed at the Center Street Studio in Milton Massachusetts by Jim Stroud. Binding of dark blue linen cloth with black titling embossed on front cover. Matching full blue linen cloth clamshell box with titling blind-stamped into spine. Book is protected with a clear archival Grafix Dura Lar dust wrapper. LEC Monthly Letter laid in. ______CONDITION: Book is in fine (as new") condition. Clamshell box is lightly bumped at lower front and rear corners, otherwise fine.______DISCUSSION: This is one of the most successful of the late-LEC editions from Sidney Shiff, a perfect marriage of illustrator and work of literature, hardly surprising since artist John Wilson selected this story as the work he wished to illustrate. Down by the Riverside was one of the highlights in Wright's seminal 1938 collection Uncle Tom's Children. Wilson's dark, brooding, atmospheric drawings capture the tension and underlying sense of dread that permeate this work._____NOTE: This is an extremely large, heavy edition. Domestic shipping with UPS Ground + tracking is $35. International shipping cost using USPS International Priority Mail to Canada and the United Kingdom is $125. More distant locations may incur additional cost. The additional funds for international shipping will be requested following purchase. John Wilson (illustrator). Signed by Illustrator(s).…

First Edition. (WILSON, John) WRIGHT, Richard. Down by the Riverside. New York: Limited Editions Club, (2001). Oblong folio (16 by 12 inches), original blue cloth; housed in original clamshell box. $1950.Signed limited first edition, number 24 of only 300 copies signed on the limitation page by artist John Wilson, with four striking aquatint illustrations by him.Wright's harrowing novella was first published in the collection Uncle Tom's Children in 1938, two years before Native Son appeared. Artist John Wilson created art "since he was a boy on Roxbury's streets, learning to sketch and honing a burgeoning talent that eventually would place his paintings and sculptures in the Museum of Fine Arts and far beyond" (Bryan Marquand, in the Boston Globe). His work has displayed a consistent focus on social injustice and racial inequality in America. Fine condition. Signed.…