Comic Alphabets Origin Development Nature by Partridge Eric Michael Foreman (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Michael Foreman (illustrator). First Edition. Foxing to exterior page edges. Price-clipped dust jacket in protective mylar. 134PP. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Foreman, Michael (illustrator). Owner's label on front endpaper. 1/2" tear in edge of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper is price-clipped. Dust wrapper spine faded. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. "The Victorians delighted in comic rhymed alphabets, nor have their descendants quite forsaken them." - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 134, [1] pages. Illustrated. Red boards with silver lettering on spine. ; 12mo.

(1967). First U.S. edition. In vivid green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine; in illustrated dust jacket decorated with alphabetical melange. A hint of dust-soiling to top edge, else a fine, bright copy ; in a lightly rubbed dust jacket that shows fading to the spine panel. Liberally sprinkled with the stylish and amusing woodcut-style illustrations of Michael Foreman. Into the origin and development of the comic alphabet from Old English and Medieval Greek down to the 1960's.Partridge has gone with that fusion of wit and scholarship which he has made peculiarly his own." Foreman's first book!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, UK. 1961. 134 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (light sunning present to the spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Light foxing present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "The Victorians delighted in comic rhymed alphabets, nor have their descendants quite forsaken them." - from dust wrapper blurb. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages.

Card Covers. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Michael Foreman (illustrator). First Edition. 134 pages. Michael Foreman illustrations. Very mild foxing of edges and prelims; light shelf-wear to cloth and dust-jacker; inscription on front endpaper; a good to very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Michael Foreman (illustrator). 1st Edition. ** INSCRIBED, 1ST EDITION ** Inscribed on the flyleaf, 1st Edition, Near Fine, Partridge (Eric) Comic Alphabets. Their Origin, Development, Nature. With Drawings by Michael Foreman. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961, FIRST EDITION, a few small authorial corrections, pp. 134, [1], crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, dustjacket with faded backstrip panel and a couple of nicks, small fox spots on the top edge of the text block. Inscribed on the flyleaf, 'To 'Gip' Wells, gratefully - from E.P.; the recipient was H.G. Wells's eldest son, George Philip - the basis of the gratitude is obscure, as G.P. Wells is not among the extensive list of acknowledgements. The author's corrections are to the second initial of S.H. Monk in both the text and the Index, as well as to the editions in the list of his books at rear. This book is protected in a removable protective Brodart mylar covering. Enjoy! Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Drawings by Michael Foreman (illustrator). 1st Edition. Scarlet boards and spine, the latter lettered in silver. Underside of soiled jacket shows water mark along lower edge; its four leading corners rubbed and rear top edge with small closed tears. Fore edge a little foxed. Internally front free endpaper stamped with owner's name, and date in pencil.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Michael Foreman (illustrator). First edition. A superb signed first edition of this Eric Partridge lexicographical work, inscribed by both the author and the illustrator. The first edition, first impression of this work.Inscribed by the author and illustrator to the recto to the front endpaper, 'Maurice, with all good wishes, from Eric Christmas 1963'.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.A fascinating and comical lexicographical study, discussing the quirks of the English language.Illustrated with an illustrated title page and illustrations throughout.By the lexicographer Eric Partridge.Illustrated by Michael Foreman.One page of publisher's adverts to the rear, with two ink corrections to the prices to the leaf. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the extremities. Minor edgewear to the dustwrapper. Author's inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Spine is a little sunned, with some light marks to the wraps, including to the reverse. Ink crossing out the price to the front flyleaf. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. signed by author. book.