John Constables Clouds by Badt Kurt (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

Condition: Good. 1950. No Edition Remarks. 102 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Illustrated dust jacket over pink cloth covered boards. Ex-Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. End papers are more notably foxed. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Top edge of text block is dust marked. Ex Libris plate to front paste-down. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Book has a slight forward lean. Board corners are bumped. Clipped jacket has moderate edge-wear with chips, tears and creasing. Grubby all over.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover without dust jacket, ix + 102 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; gently used ex-library copy which appears to have been rebound by library in plain blue treated blue cloth covers with bright and clear gilt lettering to spine, including library code, moderate shelf wear to cover corners and spine ends, rubber stamps and several labels glued to free front endpaper including circulation slip showing only one issue (hard to believe considering the cover wear), library name discreetly stamped in the inner margin of several pages, one page corner creased, but tight in binding, all text pages otherwise clean and unmarked. See also our listing for the very scarce Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable, Edited by Edward Morris for the National Galleries of Scotland.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Missing Sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST UK EDITION. A groundbreaking study that puts Constable's cloud studies at the heart of his painting, showing him not just as a landscape artist, but as a keen observer of nature and weather. Uncommon. BOOK: Publisher's red cloth boards, internally clean and tight. DJ: Unclipped jacket in sterling condition, with only light shelf-wear to extremities.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, ix + 102 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; gently used copy with only very light shelf wear to cover edges, light bumps to cover corners and spine ends, but tight in binding, all text pages very clean and unmarked, flawed primarily by faded old discolouration to the front cover and spine ends caused possibly by intense sun fading due to the fragmentary DJ, but more probably by exposure to moisture although no staining is visible inside. ; the remains of the DJ consist of roughly three quarters of the spine and front panel and all of the front flap, the remains now in a professional archival quality mylar protector. See also our listings for the very scarce Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable, Edited by Edward Morris for the National Galleries of Scotland, and for Herbert Tompkins' 1906 classic In Constable's Country (with many reproductions from his paintings).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardcover without dust jacket, ix + 102 pages, plus black-and-white illustrations; gently used, not abused, tight in binding, no aromas, red cloth covers gently bumped at spine ends, both bottom corners not quite so gently bumped, one worn through, foxing spots to top and fore edges with some penetration just visible in the extreme outer and top margins, considerably less to bottom edge without penetration, both free endpapers (but not the fixed) each have scattered foxing spots on both sides, plate pages very fresh and white, text pages slightly age toned but very clean and unmarked, several corners gently bumped but no corner creases, no aromas. See also our listings for the very scarce Constable's Clouds: Paintings and Cloud Studies by John Constable, Edited by Edward Morris for the National Galleries of Scotland, and for Herbert Tompkins' 1906 classic In Constable's Country (with many reproductions from his paintings).

8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with 15 plates on 8; original red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped and frayed with minor loss at head and tail of backstrip and edges. VERY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.