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Published by Tate Publishing, 2018
ISBN 10: 1849765308ISBN 13: 9781849765305
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Condition: VeryGood. Themerson, Franciszka (illustrator). Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day.
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Published by Philosophical Library, New York, 1958
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Themerson, Franciszka (illustrator). This copy has no creasing of the spine or covers. Interior text has darkened slightly with age, clean and binding tight. Black and white cartoon drawings throughout.
Published by Philosophical Library, 1958
Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Themerson, Franciszka (illustrator). 1st Ed. Philosophical Library, 1958 Unpaginated. 28 pgs.B&W line illustrations. Black line on top page edges Ble cloth boards are undamaged. DJ is faded along spine. 1st Ed. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illus. by Themerson, Franciszka. 5" x 7.5".
Published by wisdom library, 1958
Seller: GRAHAM HOLROYD, BOOKS, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. first edition. , near fine, , thin paperback,
Published by Wisdom Library, 1958
Seller: Books Galore & More..., Port Perry, ON, Canada
Book
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Cover scuffed otherwise clean copy.
Published by Gaberbocchus Press, London, 1953
Folding card [folded size 3 1/4 x 4 1/4"], illustrated with one of Franciszka Themerson's 28 drawings which appeared in the book. A prospectus for Bertrand Russell's abecedary The Good Citizen's Alphabet, which the Gaberbocchus Press published in 1953. The verso has a blank reserved to advertise bookstores carrying the book, here blank and not filled in. Beautifully designed ephemera from one of the best presses of the early postwar period. Fine.
Published by London, Gaberbocchus Press, (1970)., 1970
Seller: Rödner Versandantiquariat, Den Haag, Netherlands
First Edition
14x11 cm., unpaginated, illustrated throughout, paperback; very good copy. First new edition that contains also the "History of the World in Epitome". Sprache: Englisch.
Published by Gaberbocchus Press, London, 1970
ISBN 10: 0852470649ISBN 13: 9780852470640
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
Book
12mo. Original publisher's red, white and black illustrated paper covers with black lettering at front and spine. Illustrated throughout with humorous drawings in black and white. ISBN: 852470649 May show some signs of shelfwear with small marks and spots at front and rear covers. Spine slightly rubbed. Otherwise neat and internally clean copy. Very good.
Published by Gaberbocchus, 1953
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. VG with some spotting to prelims, in unclipped jacket with some staining, some rubbing at spine joins and wear to spine ends.
Published by Wisdom Library, New York, 1958
Seller: Douglas Books, Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Franciszka Themerson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Card binding with coloured front inc. photo of Bertie puffing his pipe, no obvious faults bar faint rubbing to top front corner. 2 pp. short intro.by Russell (with cartoon head and tail pieces)+ 26 (i.e. 52 pp) cartoons with his captions, no obvious faults. Very scarce late Russell item. Ephemeral contemporary leaflet about the 'Middle East Conflict' slipped in. 10.5 cm x 18.5 cm.
Published by Oxford Previous Parrot Press 1989, 1989
Seller: Chichester Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom
Book
Pochoir coloured drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Limited Edition of 250 copies. Out of series. Pages are double with top edge uncut. Fine.
Published by London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1953
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. First edition, foolscap 4to (8.5 in x 6.5 in), pp. (56) without pagination, line illustrations on color fields for each letter. Original light blue lettered orange cloth in original blue, white and black pictorial orange dust jacket. Fine clean bright copy in near fine dust jacket with a bit of light soil on lower side not price clipped @ 8s 6 d net. Sheets clean unmarked, complete. H10236 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Themerson, Franciszka (illustrator). First Edition. Pictorial paper covered boards in excellent condition, contents clean, one of 125 published, this one unnumbered Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Erste Ausgabe des vergnüglichen Alphabets von "Asinine" bis "Zeal", auf der Umschlagklappe durch eine alternative Erläuterung für "P" ergänzt: "P is for Pedant who wrote this book". - Gutes Exemplar. - Original bright red cloth in original pictorial orange dust jacket. Very good clean copy in very good dust jacket apart from a small tear (ca. 2 cm) to the front cover. Not price clipped ("8s 6 d net").
First Edition. Fine in a very good or better dust jacket. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Published by Gaberbocchus Press, 1953
Seller: Love Rare Books, St Leonards On Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small quarto. 170mm x 215mm. Red cloth. Titles in blue to spine. No inscriptions or blemishes, about fine condition. The jacket is unclipped (8s 6d net). Only minor edge wear, slightly faded to spine, mild grubbiness to rear panel. A very good bright clean copy. Bertrand Russell [1872-1970] philosopher, mathematician and public intellectual. This is, as can be imagined, one of his lighter works and the introduction implies that the great man had a lively sense of humour. 'L' for example is 'Liberty; the 'right to obey the police'. 'V' is for 'Virtue. Submission to the government. 'X' is for Xenophobia. The Andorran opinion that the inhabitants of Andorra are the best'. The illustrations - line drawings on a colour field - by Franciszka Themerson [1907-1988] are firmly in the post-war, European, avant-garde tradition as might be expected from this Polish emigre to England, who, with her husband, Stefan had founded the Gaberbocchus Press (the name is the Latin version of 'Jabberwocky') in 1948. Amongst the illustrations is a portrait of Russell under 'P' for Pedant. The Press' publications were often experimental in content and format. They published over sixty titles and were an important part of the British avante-garde publishing scene.
First edition. 8vo, unpaginated, bound in red cloth titled in green at the spine. Illustrated with 28 drawings by Franciszka Themerson. With two folding promotional card prospectuses for the book laid in. An abecedary by the philosopher and logician, illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson - a felicitious pairing. Laid in are two promotional prospectuses for the book, one a small folding card entitled P is for Pedant Who Wrote This Book," with a space on the back cover for denoting bookstores which carried the book - here blank - and a folding card printed in blue addressed to Lady Celia, addressing criticisms of the press and describing this book and other publications, as well as explaining the namesake of the press. The work has been reprinted various times, most recently in a facsimile edition by the Tate. Strip of fading to the front panel of the cloth, else near fine, in a dust jacket that is darkened at spine and extremities with several tears, but unclipped and complete and about very good.
Published by Gaberbocchus Press, London, 1953
Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Franciszka Themerson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Name of previous owner in fountain pen on front pastedown otherwise a firm clean copy in price clipped dustwrapper, slightly chipped with loss to the spine panel. Gaberbocchus promotional material enclosed.
Published by Oxford.: Hanborough Parrot Press, 1989
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo, (6 in x 8 ½ in.). Pink boards with drawings in black, blue and red. This copy numbered "2" of an edition limited to 125. The original illustrations by Franciszka Themerson have been pochoir coloured by Sylvia Stokeld. The top edge has been left unopened.
Published by Gaberbocchus Press Limited, London, 1953
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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First edition of this playful work by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth, with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Rhoda Kellogg from Bertrand Russell." The recipient, Rhoda Kellogg was a notable scholar of early childhood and maintained an extensive collection of children's artwork. She also had carried on an extra-marital affair with Russell. From Michael D. Stevenson's "In Solitude I Brood on War": Bertrand Russell's 1939 American Lecture Tour", "Although Russell claimed he possessed no 'errant philandering impulses' (Let. 3) and seemed to avoid the sexual entanglements that marked his earlier American tours, he nonetheless met several women with whom he had been sexually intimate including Rhoda Kellogg and Miriam Brudno." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A is for Asinine, Z is for Zeal in this alphabet written, with no purpose beyond fun, by the philosopher Bertrand Russell. It was originally given to his friends Stefan and Franciszka Themerson as a Christmas present in 1952 and only later published with drawings by Franciszka. Russells playful satire on 26 political and rhetorical words is reprinted here, along with his six-line History of the World in Epitome (for use in Martian infant schools) - a title almost as long as the text.