Clifton bingham etc (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Blue Cloth Stamped In Black, White, Green, Dark Blue, Light Blue. Apparently First Edition In This Full Cloth Format. Wear, Fraying At Corners; Hinges Cracked; Front Endpaper Lacking. No Marks.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Date of Publication unknown, but circa early 20th century. Moderate wear. Binding starting to loosen, pages clean and unmarked. Pictures available upon request.

Ernest Nister. London. No date - circa1900. Tall slim annual format with green cloth spine and paper covered bpoards with delightful chromo-litho illustration to front cover. Illustrated half-title, delicately coloured-in, tipped in full colour chromo-litho frontis., illustration to title, b/w illustrations to every page plus four b/w plates and other full page drawings. Corners of boards very rubbed, rear panel worn and scratched, neat child's ownership inscriptions to patterned endpapers. Pages browned and nicked and chipped to margins with a few close tears. One central page lacks small piece at lower inner corner, not affecting the text or illustration, a few pages are loose otherwise a readable copy of an incredible anthology produced by the master.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Green cloth cover with blind stamped pictorial is frayed at extremities and split along front hinge. Boards are straight. Binding is tight. Cover is detached (but present and all in one piece) , signatures still held together so suitable for rebinding. Lacking front and rear end sheets. Title page and verso are neatly colored. Pages are toned with heavy thumbing, two pages with tears up to 2" but in good condition. Complete text and b&w illustrations with several color (single-color) plates. .…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Spine cloth torn along lower 5" of the front joint. Fraying to cloth at ends of spine. A 3" adhesive tape repair across lower end of spine. Edges of boards heavily rubbed with loss of paper along the edges and margins. Corners of boards heavily worn, rubbed, and rounded. The frontispiece illustration has a 4" tear with an adhesive sellotape repair on the reverse side. Also a 1 3/4" tear to the lower inner corner of the frontispiece, again with an old sellotape repair on the reverse side. The sellotape repairs to the frontispiece have caused adhesive tape staining to the paper of the frontispiece, and also to the neighbouring region of the front free endpaper. An early owner's inscription on the front endpaper - "To Patti with Love from Auntie May", beneath which is another recent inscription - "(a family friend) about 1924". No other inscriptions or marginalia. Gutters broken at hinges.; Illustrated papered boards with red cloth spine. Full colour illustrations by Louis Wain on both the front and rear boards. Also with a full colour frontispiece, and many duotone (i.e. black with one other colour) and b&w illustrations, all by Louis Wain. Louis Wain is an artist famous for his expressive cat illustrations. Page dimensions: 257 x 195mm. [Bibliographical Reference: Stead, W. T. (ed.) "The Review of Reviews. Volume 36" (1907), page 646.]; Father Tuck's "Golden Gift" Series; 4to. Illustrated by Wain, Louis (illustratore).…

Condizione: Very good. London, Paris, New York: Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., circa [1910-1917]., [1910-1917]. Very good. - Quarto, 10-5/8 inches high by 7-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in color pictorial boards backed with a red cloth spine, with a bright color illustration by R. J. Wealthy on the front cover. The covers are slightly rubbed and soiled and the corners are bumped. [50] unnumbered pages, with a full-page color frontispiece by Louis Wain and 49 vignettes, 14 of which are colored or tinted. Of the 49 vignettes, 34 are signed "Louis Wain" in the print and 15 are unsigned. The title page vignette is by "E. Ledward". The front hinge is cracked and the pages are slightly darkened. An early owner's inscription, dated "1917" is penned on the front endpaper. Very good. First edition.Though not listed as one of the book's illustrators, the majority of the illustrations are by Louis Wain and most are amusing depictions of cats & kittens.[Raphael Tuck No. 823]. RARE.…

Condizione: Very Good. Early edition. A Very Good copy of this uncommon Louis Wain title. Illustraded through-out in Wain's iconic style, with 8 color plates and numerous black and white illustrations within the text. Gift inscription dated Xmas 1912. At the end of the nineteenth century, Louis Wain (1860-1939), the Edwardian cat artist, became a household name as an illustrator of cats, whom he depicted in all sorts of activities, from skating and playing cricket to driving motor cars, attending dances, and playing musical instruments. "He invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves" (H.G. Wells). Very Good.…