Walter Ritchie (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Edition limited to 310 numbered copies, hand-set in Joanna type and printed by Peter Lloyd at the Gamecock Press; this copy inscribed to Lord Reilly, "Paul - on his 70th from [illegible] '82".

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,650grams, ISBN:0950620505.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 112 pages. Illustrated mainly in black and white throughout, this copy has a solid tight binding with clean unmarked pages, light edge wear.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,750grams, ISBN:0950620505.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Softcover. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and soiling and light sunning to cover edges and spine. Binding sound. 112pp. Many b/w illustrations. Walter Ritchie (1919-1997) was one of the last living pupils of Eric Gill at Pigotts near High Wycombe before the Second World War.Many of his public works were in stone, wood, metal and brick relief, as many of his commissions were for public buildings it depended on how much money was available to what materials were used and a lot of schools and public building chose brick as they could get more for the money, but some have suffered loss from building redevelopment.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 30pp. 10 bw plates. Limited to 500 copies, this numbered 19. Loosely inserted are a bw photograph (of a wood carving) inscribed on reverse with Christmas wishes from Don and a three page letter to Geoff from Blandford and signed Don. Not dated but he is "nearing 80" so ca 1980. Inscription to half title in a different hand. Attractive and nicely printed. Grey buckram binding with calligraphic EG in red to cover.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback. Quarto. 96pp. Original illustrated paperback. Light wear otherwise very good indeed.

First edition 1994. 96 pages. Illustrated mainly in black and white, some colour. Paperback. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. One of a limited edition of 500 copies, this being copy no.118. Grey cloth with title in black on spine and Gill's initials in red on front cover. Removable clear plastic dustjacket (as issued?). Condition: Very good, with just a hint of shelfwear to covers. No inscriptions. Clear plastic jacket is also in very good condition. A prospectus for the book is also loosely inserted. 48pp. including 11 b/w illustrations. Between 1906 and 1940 Eric Gill employed perhaps 24 assistants, apprentices and pupils in his sculpture workshops. This memoir is written by the sculptor who had one of the longest working associations with Gill. Between 1931 and 1940, from tiny sketches, Donald Potter (1902-2004) made all Eric Gill's sculpture in wood and collaborated with much of his work in stone. Potter later became a part-time teacher of sculpture and pottery at Bryanston school in Dorset.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies. A fine copy in the original glassine jacket. With a tipped in frontispiece and 10 plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 44 pages; Tipped onto the limitation page is a note stating that only 400 copies were actually printed. 'Of these, 89 copies are imperfect through binding faults of stitching and or the heading on pages 6 and 7 are out of alignment.'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 500 COPIES : THIS ONE IS 314/500 : A fine copy in a fine glassine cover. Fresh and clean, free of inscriptions. Note : { it is stated that only 400 copies were eventually printed, due to technical errors }. Hand set in Eric Gill's Joanna type, and printed by Peter Lloyd at the Gamecock Press Contents: My time with Eric Gill / Donald Potter -- Addenda including a postscript / by Walter Ritchie. 30 p,[13] p of plates : ill, ports ; 21cm.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition. Very clean & tightly bound hardback, signed by author and illustrator on half title page verso. Unpaginated, illustrations in the text by Walter Ritchie. 26 poems about animals from A - Z. Limited edition, no. 23 of 500.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4to. Softcover. Pp. 96. Inscribed by Walter Ritchie on the first clean page 'To Rita'. In very good condition, with slight shelf-wear to the cover including wear along the top and bottom of the spine, and along the edges. A mark on the front cover, top right corner, and minor creasing at the bottom left corner of the back cover. Pages themselves are clean and fresh. Illustrated with b/w photographs with an introduction written by the artist. Walter Ritchie was a British sculptor, one of the last living pupils of Eric Gill at Pigotts near High Wycombe before the Second World War. Many of his public works were in stone, wood, metal and brick relief, as many of his commissions were for public buildings. Ritchie never had assistants. His mistakes, he used to say, were his own. He never mixed in social circles and refused offers to help him set up in London. A very private person, he lived alone for 57 years in the house where his family was evacuated after the Coventry Blitz, rarely taking holidays. His obituary in The Independent in 1997 claimed that The career of the sculptor Walter Ritchie provides the best 20th century example of the artist as his own worst enemy because he only ever had two exhibitions, one in the 1960s and one in the 1990s. Inscribed by Author(s). …

First edition 1978. 112 pages. Illustrated mainly in black and white throughout. Paperback. Very good indeed.

Condition: near fine. Hbk 30pp of text with a tipped in frontis illustration followed by 10 numbered plates this edition limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is number 363 there is a small printed note tipped onto the limitation page saying that the edition was only 400 copies. 'Of these, 89 copies are imperfect through binding faults of stitching and or the heading on pages 6 and 7 are out of alignment.' The note is initialed WR (presumably Walter Riitchie) original acetate jacket showing some waviness but it has done its job and the woven cloth boards with bright red Gill monogram remain bright crisp and clean altogether a fine tight unmarked copy becoming hard to find.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Unblemished example. Printed in Eric Gill's Joanna type by Peter LLoyd at The Gamecock Press and bound by Eric Neal. Small octavo. A fine copy.

Copy number '147' of an edition limited to 500 copies. A presentation copy from the author to Oliver Carey, inscribed on the limitation page 'for Oliver Carey | with happy | memories of | Guatemala | Fenruary | 1989 | Gaston' and inscribed on the front free endpaper 'ex libris Oliver Carey'. Set in Eric Gill's Joanna and Perpetua type and printed by Ptere Lloyd at The Gamecock Press, Rugby; designed and published by Walter Ritchie. Silver grey cloth covered board with an Anhinga illustration to the upper board, black lettering to the spine, blue endpapers, glassine dust-jacket. Small Octavo, pp. [64] illustrated throughout with drawings by Edith Duquenoy. A book in Fine condition.…