Exploits Don Quixote Retold Edward by Cervantes (3 results)

Hardcover , Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Edward Ardizzone (illustrator). First Edition. With 219pp , and illustrations including fine coloured illustraions by Ardizzone. HARDCOVER, NO DUST JACKET, NO MARKINGS, VERY GOOD CONDITION, EXCELLENT VALUE, VIRTUALLY MINT CONDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Cream offset cartridge paper. Illustrated with 12 inserted watercolour plates; 60 pen drawings (title-page vignette, 21 chapter headpieces, 7 talipieces, 31 in text). Red linen boards with block of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Dust-jacket a wrap-round watercolour (featuring 3 Quixotes), endpapers a double-spread watercolour repeated front and rear. A fine copy.

FIRST ARDIZZONE EDITION, frontispiece and 11 colour plates, further illustrations to the text, all by Edward Ardizzone, faintly toned to inner margin of half-title, pp. 219, 8vo, uoriginal red cloth with Ardizzone vignette stamped in gilt to upper board, backstrip lettered in gilt, some gentle wear at foot of upper joint, edges toned, Ardizzone illustrations colour-printed to endpapers, Ardizzone dustjacket, slightly rubbed and chipped at extremities, price-clipped by publisher with new price stamped, very good. A delightful edition.