Brophy john and eric kennington (4 risultati)

First Edition: Hardback, red bds., gold titles, 150 x 220 mm., 200g., 48 pp., Foreword by Sir James Grigg, colour illustrations throughout by John Brophy, inscription on ffep. reads 'From one Home Guard to another' and signed Ralph Allen 1945 Thank You "Jim" ' original, pictorial, unclipped dw., with light edge wear, VG/VG+ copy. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine unread copy illustrated with color paintings. 48 pp. Height 22 cm. slight rubbing to spine tips and the fore-edge otherwise as new. Priced at 6s. on the inner flap.

Hardcover book, 6" x 9", dust wrapper in clear plastic sleeve is good+ (overall wear, mainly to margins with 2 small losses at spine top, back and front); text is near fine (front endpaper has inscription, "From Doris, 1/3/45); 48 pp with 19 color illustrations, foreward by Sir James Grigg f. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). This copy signed by both the author and illustrator on the front free endpaper (both Brophy and Kennington were themselves Local Defence Volunteers). A review copy, with the publisher's review slip laid-in (this copy having been sent to true crime specialist J. H. H. Gaute, with his type-written name to the comp. slip). Slim 8vo. 48pp. Red cloth lettered in ruled in gold at the spine. With nineteen full-colour and predominantly full-page character studies by Eric Kennington (whose subjects include Sir James Griss, Viscount Bridgeman, and various sergeants, privates and other Home Guard regulars). A narrow sliver of fading to the lower edges of the boards. A very good copy in somewhat tatty dust wrapper, non-price-clipped but with some soiling, chipping, tearing, and several quite small areas of edge-loss. Signed by Author(s).…