Christabel aberconway (63 risultati)

Maroon Backed Grey Boards. Condizione: Very Good - See Description. None. First Edition. Unnumbered pages, [3] tipped-in colour illustrations, [16] black and white illustrations by Rex Whistler. Delightful tale for children of all ages, Whistler's delicately coloured and delineated illustrations enliven a whimsical text. Hb, in maroon backed grey boards, gilt Mr Korah figure on lower corner of upper board, gilt lettering to spine darkened and difficult to read, fading to top edge of lower board, very slightly sprung, no dw, internally very good. Whistler, Rex (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 3 tipped-in color plates.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 7.75 x 10 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks and tipped in color plates by Rex Whistler. Very good in original two-tone paper-covered boards, sticker ghost to front free endpaper and very good pictorial dust jacket, foxing. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 ½ x 10". 33 pp. Very good in a good dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected in mylar. Moderate rubbing and soiling to the dust jacket. The interior appears unmarked. The binding is solid.

(38)pp. Illus. (partly color). 4to. Cloth. D.j.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No DJ- In Mylar Cover. 1st Edition. DJ in Mylar but dulled from age, some very minor foxing title page, but end plates clean Aberconway and Whistler were friends and when the author first wrote the book, the illustrator finished sketches along with him but the author did not decide to publish until "after the war (WWII". Sadly, Whistler had only completed converting three of the sketches to color plates for the story. Those three along with his original sketches illustrate the story beautifully. A real find and a great children's book. Unpaginated but has approximately 20 pages. Rex Whistler (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Shelfworn with Small Tears. 176PP. b&w plates. There is some light foxing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrations by Rex Whistler. Fine in spine-toned and spotted good dust jacket with modest edgewear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 2nd impression. 4to. 466 pages. Text in English, French, and German. Red cloth, gilt spine titles on black label, gilt decorations; top edge dyed maroon; pictorial endpapers, black & white illustrations; buff dust jacket, not price-clipped, now protected in clear plastic. A very good plus copy in like jacket. Scarce to find in this condition with jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Spine faded Cover somewhat stained.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Rex Whistler was a regular visitor to the young authors home where he challenged her to invent a story which he would illustrate with quick pencil sketches as she unfolded it verbatim. A year later in the early period of WW2 he suggested that he would like to make larger coloured drawings from the sketches so the story could be published after the war. He only finished three dying in action in 1944. Rex Whistler (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrations by Rex Whistler. Pages foxed, boards slightly bowed, corners lightly bumped, very good in a very good age-toned dustwrapper with modest edgewear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 4to. Dustwrapper slightly darkened and worn at spine, and a little frayed. Inscribed by the author to Rex Whistler's future biographer Mirabel Cecil, "For Mirabel from Christabel April '69"; loosely inserted a photocopy of a typed letter signed from the author to Rex Whistler's brother Laurence, 9 February 1954, relating the history of the project. Christabel Aberconway (née Macnaghten, 1890-1974, married 1910 Henry McLaren, whoho succeeded 1934 as second Baron Aberconway) was a friend of Whistler's through Cecil Beaton and William Walton. Inscribed by Author(s).…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat stained and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: book plate or Roderic Hill. Physical description; 40 unnumbered pages color frontispiece, illustrations (part mounted color) 26 cm. Subjects; Whistler, Rex 1905-1944. Illustration of books. Illustration (process). Illustration of books Great Britain. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat stained and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: book plate or Roderic Hill. Physical description; 40 unnumbered pages color frontispiece, illustrations (part mounted color) 26 cm. Subjects; Whistler, Rex 1905-1944. Illustration of books. Illustration (process). Illustration of books Great Britain. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red hardcover, 466 pages in very good condition, lfaint rubbing to cover edges, a few bent page corners. . No jacket. Gold illustrations of cats on spine, Illustrated endpapers, Illustrated throughout the book. Hundreds of entries from famous writers and other notables about their cats, from the 15th century B.C. to the 20th century A. D. Assumed 1st edition states " First published by Michael Joseph LTD. 26 Bloomsbury Street London, W.C. 1 1949" no other dating in book.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, Hardback with Unclipped Dust Jacket, (176pp), Photographs, Top & Bottom of Spine & Corners Bumped, Few Light Marks to Cloth, Jacket has some edge wear and chipping to edges & corners, Few Marks to jacket, Overall, A Very good Copy in good - Very Good Jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1954, 4to, 255 x 190 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, grey cloth with red cloth spine, gilt vignette to upper cover, gilt lettered spine, (44) pages. Mounted coloured frontispiece, 2 further mounted coloured plates, some black and white illustrations. No inscriptions, near Fine in very good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, very slightly marked, slightly darkened on spine, slightly worn at head of spine with minute chips, tiny nick at tail of spine, top corners just very slightly worn). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. …

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Grey cloth with red spine. Gilt vignette to lower front corner. Delightful tipped-in colour plates and b/w drawings. How Mr. Korah is taken captive by an octopus but lives to tell the tale. Spine and corners bumped. A few light foxspots to textblock. Faint whiff of tobacco to contents. Dustwrapper is just a little grubby. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Whistler, Rex (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Undated paperback pamphlet in overall very good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - covers rubbed to edges. Stapled binding sound. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. …

Blue-green stiff printed wrappers. A bit of rubbing, or offsetting from adjacent books, light wear to corners, a clean very good copy. Illustrated with reproductions of pencil drawings, one folding. A privately-printed sequel to the 1954 book by Whistler & Aberconway, "The Story of Mr. Korah".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. vg dj (price clipped) a little dusty, a few very short tears, light grey boards with red spine, gilt front vignette & spine lettering, top edge a little faded, 3 mounted colour plates + many sketches in the text by REX WHISTLER, light foxing internally and on foredges, vg. 4to, unpaginated. The story was told around 1940 by Christabel to her friend Rex Whistler, who made lightning sketches at the time. He wanted to redraw the pictures in colour for publication after the war but he was killed in France in 1944. He had only completed 3 colour drawings, also some of the pencil sketches were lost. Rex Whistler (illustratore).…

Hardback, 10 x 7.5 ins. Half bound in red and grey cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt illustration to front corner. In illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (DW some handling marks, rubbing to spine and ends, small nicks to corners. Not price clipped. With protective sleeve.) Some slight fading to edges of boards. Endpapers clean, no inscriptions. Some slight minor foxing to top of halftitle page else pages and plates all very clean and bright throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 38pp. Illustrated with 3 tipped-in colour plates, and b&w illustrations by Rex Whistler.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. A Dictionary of Cat Lovers XV Century BC - XX Century AD - First edition The page edges have tanning and foxing; in good condition internally with foxing in a few places; the spine of the book and the dust jacket are faded; the dust jacket has wear on all edges, with splits, tears and small stains (see photos).…

First Edition. Grey cloth, red backstrip, gilt to backstrip and vignette to lower corner. No DW. Tipped in coloured frontis + 2 tipped in coloured plates with b/w plates and illustrations within text. Unpaginated. Boards sunned to margins with a few stains. Contents sl. thumbed with 3cm tear to lower margin of one page. Lower edges of some pages rippled slightly o/w VG.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. 1954, 1st UK. Thin Quarto. Illustrated with tipped-in colour plates and line drawings by Rex Whistler. Original quarter red cloth over grey cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Fading to extremities, bump to head of front board. In the pale blue dust wrapper, a little spotted and rubbed with some score markings to front and rear. Contents in good clean order. Overall a 'Good' copy. Rex Whistler (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Not Issued. 1st Edition. A fine copy, undated and privately printed, six tipped in illustrations.