Mountains by Thomas Piper (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Printed by The Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge for the Chilmark Press, New York, 1968. One of only 240 numbered, this being number 79. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Printed by The Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge for the Chilmark Press, New York, 1968. Original navy quarter Morocco, navy cloth slides, original slipcase. Size 305mm x 225mm (12"x9"). pp42 + 4 leaves + 10 leaves of extra engravings. One of only 110 numbered special copies signed by the author, artist and engraver. Printed on Wookey Hole mould-made paper. Superb and special book. Signed by Author(s).…

First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. Number 155 from an edition of 350 copies. Text by Thomas illustrated with ten drawings by John Piper engraved on the wood by Reynolds Stone and with a descriptive note by John Piper as well. A very near fine copy with slightly splayed boards. No dust jacket and lacking the slipcase. A beautifully printed book.…

32 x 23cm. Hardcover with worn slipcase, 42pp. Signed by John Piper at front colophon, with an inscription "for Jeanne & Sherman [Stonor] with much love from John & Myfanwy, Christmas 1968" [the Hon. Ralph Robert Watts Sherman Stonor (only son of Lord and Lady Camoys of Stonor Park, Oxfordshire) and Jeanne Stourton (i.e. Dowager Lady Camoys)]. Undated publication, but c.1968. A lavish production printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge, but published in New York by the Chilmark Press. Illustrated paper-covered boards. The book is illustrated with ten drawings by John Piper engraved on wood by Reynolds Stone with a descriptive note by John Piper. Bound at the Cambridge University Press. One of 240 copies, of which this is numbered 121. Page edges rough cut. Interesting provenance: the Stonors were a landed aristocratic British couple, occasional patrons of artists such as Reynolds Stone - their daughter Julia Camoys Stonor wrote a memoir of Jeanne Stonor in 2006 alleging that her mother had murdered her husband in 1976, and that she was a Nazi sympathizer and had adulterous relationships with other men including Joachim von Ribbentrop. Some splitting to slipcase, which is fragile and in a perilous state. Book is in very good condition indeed.…

Ten plates by John Piper wood-engraved by Reynolds Stone Of an edition of 350 copies, this is one of 110 copies signed by the author, artist and engraver and with an extra set of the engravings Folio Spine somewhat sunned, otherwise a very nice copy in slipcase Original green quarter morocco, sides with gilt rule, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, pictorial end-papers.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Limited edition this being number 143 of 350. Large format hardcover in slipcover. Chilmark Press, New York., 1968. First edition. Quarto. pp 42, [vi]. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Ten-line poem and fifteen-page prose piece by R.S. Thomas. Illustrations by Reynolds Stone from drawings by Piper. Fine in Fine slipcase. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal.…

One of 110 lettered copies signed by author, artist, and engraver, and with an extra set of the engravings, from a total edition of 350 copies. 10 wood engravings by Reynolds Stone after drawings by John Piper printed in black. 4to., 30x23cm, 42pp. plus plates. Original publisher's quarter blue Morocco over glue cloth boards, single vertical gilt rule to upper and lower boards, decorated endpapers after John Piper, publisher's grey paper and blue cloth slipcase. Designed and printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, bound at Cambridge University Press. New York, Chilmark Press. Very good, spine sunned, boards with very slight soiling, internally fine, slipcase very good.…