The Vision of the Fool by Cecil Collins (63 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Condition: Good. Collins, Cecil (illustrator). This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,300grams, ISBN:0947564357.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. From a private collection. Hardback with dust jacket. Minimal surface wear. No marks or damage. Fine/VG+.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:0907454038.

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. In a maroon soft cover with white titles to spine and front. No dust jacket. 192 pp. with 47 black and white illustrations. The book is in very good condition with just minor shelf-wear to the cover, the bottom corners of the front and back are lightly creased; there is slight sunning to the spine. The binding is tight. There is light tanning to the extremities of the pages, otherwise they are clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Collins, Cecil (illustrator). 1st Edition. Exhibition catalogue: 14 March to 13 April 1991. 1st printing (1991). 59pp. Paper wraps. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE copy.

First edition, first printing. Near fine paperback.

Vg/vg near fine both. appears unread. dj is clean and sharp-cornered. not price clipped. contents are clean and bright . no marginalia or markings . tightly bound in and all pages present. 1st Edition, 1st Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cecil Collins (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition of this book of the paintings of Cecil Collins. 1/2 inch missing from bottom of front of dust jacket, small scuffs on front of dust jacket. 1/2 inch missing from spine of dust jacket. Otherwise very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp 26 + plates ink name front fly d/j worn and chipped at edges some light gr ubiness to and rubbing to d/j.

paperback. Condition: Fine. **PAPERBACK** No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. New Edition. Paperback. 4to. pp vii, 40. Large format paperback. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. ISBN: 090745402X Very good.

Bon Etat. in4. 1947. Reliure editeur+jaquette. Bon état.

hardbound. Condition: G-VG in G-VG dustwrapper. b&w and colour plates (illustrator). 1st Edition of Cecil Collins' combined essay and cycle of images on the subject of The Fool, referencing the Saint, the Artist, the Poet, and the Fool; 31 full-page plates, with two in colour; bookshop stamp to front endpaper, endpapers foxed (med-heavy), lighter foxing to prelims and text block, mild creasing to some pages, o.w. G-VG throughout; dustwrapper rubbed and foxed, price clipped, o.w. G-VG Dustwrapper. 26pp (xxxi). large 8vo. G-VG in G-VG dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Image shows actual book for sale. Book Condition: Fair; sound binding; a few pencil annotations; a little marked to cover; a little scuffed; no jacket. Hard Cover Grey Walls Press 1947 Art.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Wraps. 8vo. pp 13. Stapled wraps. Reprint, no date, circa 1970. Issued in a small quantity. Typed pages. First published in 1947. Very good indeed.

25x19cm. First edition. 26pp including introductory essay, followed by 31 plates of which two in colour. Original black cloth, backstrip titled in gilt. Front cover a little speckled over roughly-triangular patch (of height up to 4cm and base 8cm) across lower inner corner, and lightly so along remainder of lower edge and along short section of upper edge; rear cover lightly speckled along lower edge. Lower outer corner of front cover a little bumped & creased, but still square; associated light creasing at tips of lower outer corners of contents throughout, well away from print of any kind. A little sticking damage between lower edges of plates 26 & 27, along 4cm to a height of less than 1cm, confined to margins and well below images. VERY GOOD copy in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket nicked and a little rubbed at head of backstrip panel, and with single minor nicks at upper and lower edges of rear panel.

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 19 x 23cm good hardback in dust jacket with signs of wear, a small section of jacket missing from top front near spine. Includes a text together with black and white plus some colour reproductions. Cecil Collins was born in Plymouth, Devon on 23 March 1908. He early life was physically and economically difficult and he was apprenticed to an engineering firm for a year before winning scholarships to Plymouth School of Art (1924-7) and the Royal College of Art in London (1927-31). At the College he won the William Rothenstein Life Drawing Prize. He also met and, in 1931, married Elisabeth Ramsden, a sculpture student, to whom this book is dedicated.

First printing. 8°. 59 S. OKarton mit OUmschlag. Sehr gutes Exemplar. "he Vision of the Fool" erschien erstmals 1947 bei Grey Walls Press London. Mit einem Vorwort von Robin Vousden sowie einem Text der Künstlerin (in Englisch). Mit farbigen Abbildungen. Beiliegend die Einladungskarte.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 26 pages, 31 plates, 2 in colour. Bound in original black cloth.The covers are ruubed. The title-essay is the key to any understanding of Collins' art: "Our society has rejected the Fool, not only because he cannot be exploited, not only because they judge everything by its usefulness; but they are frightened and disturbed by the Fool, because he is the child of life, and not of abstract virtue.".

Condition: Very Good. First edition. Hardback. Slight wear and slight rubbing, otherwise very good. Inscription to endpaper. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good++. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 26pp + 31 full-page plates (one in colour - The Pilgrim Fool). Black cloth covered boards with fading gilt lettering on spine. Shelf wear to top and tail of spine and also to lower board edges and lower corners. Dust flecks on front. Light toning to ffep and rfep. Gift inscription on ffep dated 1950. Laid in is an unused colour postcard of The Sleeping Fool (Plate #28 in this book). Also laid in is an undated newspaper obituary of Elizabeth Collins. Small scuff/tear mark to edge of Plate #5 (Fool Entering Theatre) and smaller mark on facing page (Plate #6 - Girl Fool). Otherwise all plates and text pages in very good condition.

A hard cover publication small 4to. with 26 pages of introduction followed by 31 full page illustrations, two of which are in colour. The overall condition of the book is at least very good, the text and plates being completely unmarked. The d / w. is missing 1 square inch to top of front panel and slightly more to the bottom and spine. The titles stand out clearly however. Images available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Enlarged Edition. Edited with an Introduction by Brian Keeble. Illustrated with many colour plates. Golgonooza Press, 2002. Fine in d/w.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. The second, enlarged edition, expanded from the Golgonooza Press issue of 1994. A presentation copy, fondly inscribed by the editor: "To my friend Ken, lover and maker of good books - from Brian 11/10/2002". Small 4to. 239pp. Green cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with nearly fifty plates, half of them in colour, plus a number of reproductions and photographs in the text. A fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. An extensive (apparently 'definitive') collection of Collins' writings, accompanied by reproductions of his artworks. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 31 plates, one coloured. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Spine very slightly skewed. Dustwrapper is chipped at edges, back panel stained & some other marking, else very good copy. 26 p. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. 8vo. original gilt-lettered black cloth, d/w. Colour frontis and 30 b/w plates. D/w rubbed and frayed at spine edge of rear panel with small area of loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. 8vo. original gilt-lettered black cloth, d/w. Colour frontis and 30 b/w plates. D/w a little rubbed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The deluxe issue of this new edition, limited to 100 numbered copies, each signed by the artist (this being #7). 4to. 10pp + xxx plates (four of them in colour). Red unlettered cloth. A fine copy in dust wrapper, very lightly chafed at extremities. Collins' essay was originally published in 1947 and is accompanied here by a different selection of his illustrations, a number of which are hitherto unprinted in bookform. Signed by Author(s).