Gregory marton (21 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Ed, 1st Prt. 1st prt. Terrific color DJ, endpapers & illustrations by BRIAN WILDSMITH- Greenaway medalist & NYTIMES BEST ILLUS. artist. Told with unforgettable intensity, this is the story of an orphan boy making his way westward from Budapest. Meeting another wayfarer, a woman heavy with child, he shelters her and finds her food, relying on his friend the blizzard to protect them while he leads her to the safety of the west and the summer sea beyond it. 126pp. Wildsmith, Brian (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First Edition. Slight spine slant. Wildsmith, Brian (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good in Very Good DJ. First edition. First edition, very good + hardcover shows just a touch of wear, in a very good dust jacket (price at flap) that shows touch of pencil shadow at top of flap next to price and edgewear that includes tiny closed tears and open chips. 126 pages illustrated by Brian Wildsmith. Still a pleasing copy of this ".story of an orphan boy making his way westward from Budapest.".…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st. 1st ptg., small 8vo, black boards stamped with glittering metallic snowflakes full coolor endpapers and 2-color interior drawings by Brian Wildsmith. A boy and a pregnant woman cross Hungary to reach the west and the summer sea with the help of his friend the blizzard. 126pp. Fine in fine, unclipped dj, no previous owner's marks. Wildsmith, Brian (illustratore).…

Condizione: Good. 1962. Second Impression. 126 pages. Dust jacket over brown cloth. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Notable foxing. Mild staining to panels. Heavy tanning to spine.…

Softcover. Condizione: Fair. Unbekannte Unterschrift / Widmung; Leichte Kratzer / Abnutzungen / Druckstellen; Leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Leichte Verschmutzung / Farbtonveränderung.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Firmly bound, decorated black cloth boards. Illustrated end papers. No jacket. Brian Wildsmith (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith. First edition. Trace foxing on fore edge, else about fine in a very near fine dust jacket that has a bit of minor edge wear at the extremities.

Reprint. Hardcover. Lacks dustjacket. Edges and prelims slightly foxed, o/w very good in decorated boards. Illustrated by Brian Wildsmith. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $2 ($5 overseas), so please disregard the site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.…

First edition. Hardcover. Fore and bottom edges lightly spotted, o/w fine in very good price-clipped dustjacket. With dustjacket, endpapers and other illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. Postage within Australia for this small/light book is set at $2 ($5 overseas), so please disregard the site default rate, which will be adjusted downwards when the order is processed by the bookseller.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Repr. Hardback: colour pictorial endpapers, b/w text illustrations with soft colour washes by BRIAN WILDSMITH, dj is lightly foxed on reverse, black boards with bright metallic stars on front and rear, silver spine lettering, slight foredge foxing, vg. small 8vo, 126pp. The boy is a war refugee trying to make his way through Hungary to the West. Brian Wildsmith (illustratore). …

Condizione: Very Good. 1st. Black cloth-covered boards with snowflake pattern decoration in embossed coloured foil on front cover. Silver lettering on spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. Other illustrations two-tone brown and black. Some faint marks to back cover. Wildsmith, Brian (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Originele geïllustreerde hardcover, illustraties in z/w, 8vo.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Black bds with coloured metalic snow flake design. very small rub to corners and a few very small chips to bottom edge of front board.Colour illustrated endpapers. Illustrations to text. Interior very good and clean. Dustjacket with inscription to front inside flyleaf, small losses to corners, very small chip to bottom spine end and 6mm and 8mm tear to top spine end. Brian Wildsmith (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine Mylar Protected. First Edition. 126 pages, text and endpapers colour illustrated. A clean, straight, unmarked book in a bright, complete dust jacket. Brian Wildsmith (illustratore).

FIRST EDITION 1962, 8vo, black boards with metallic coloured snow flakes, gilt lettered spine, colour pictorial endpapers, 126 pages. Line illustrations with 1 colour, some across double pages. Tragic story about a young orphan boy in Hungary. No inscriptions, a Fine copy in near Fine DUSTWRAPPER, (dw: price clipped, just very slightly rubbed at head of spine and top corners). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. Marton, Gregory. The boy and his friend the blizzard / illustrations by Brian Wildsmith. First edition. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. Hardback, VG, in Good, unclipped dustjacket, bumped to corners with nicks to top and base of spine, in homemade protective transparent sleeve. Black cloth decorated with coloured snowflakes to front and back; gilt lettering to spine. 126pp., b/w/brown illustrations. Top edge of page block stained red. Light foxing to other edges. Contents clean and bright. Born in Budapest in 1924, Gregory Marton graduated as a lieutenant from the Royal Hungarian Military Academy in 1944. The following year he spent as a fighting soldier. He spent the next few years studying in Germany, emigrating to Australia in 1949. At first he earned his living by manual work, but was then employed as a Civil Servant in New South Wales. He devoted much of his time to writing, in Hungarian, verse, plays and stories; The Boy and His Friend the Blizzard was his first work in the English language.Brian Lawrence Wildsmith (22 January 1930 31 August 2016) was a British painter and children's book illustrator. He won the 1962 Kate Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration, for the wordless alphabet book ABC. In all his books, the illustrations are always as important as the text. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 1962 J Cape hardback 2nd impression; near fine clean tight binding in near fine dust jacket; Excellent Brian Wildsmith illustrations and a beautiful jacket design.

hardcover. Condizione: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover. Initial pages have staining at top margin. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

First Edition. [Childrens story] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.126; [2], blank. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's black cloth blocked in colours, illustrated endpapers and dust-wrapper. With gift ink gift note to preliminary blank, signed by Valentine Fleming. Minor wear at crown else fine. Provenance; Valentine Fleming (1935-2015), Grenadier Guards officer, nephew of 'James Bond' novelist Ian Fleming. From the comprehensive bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled note within. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Signed.…

Vintage banner poster for the 1958 film. Based on the 1957 nonfiction book, "The Naked Warriors" by Commander Francis Douglas Fane, about the evolution of the US Navy's Underwater Demolition Unit, beginning with its inception near the end of World War II through it's utilization in the Korean War. 82 x 24 inches. Very Good, with light soiling overall, foxing to the left margin, a 1.5 inch closed tear to the bottom center margin, several pinholes throughout, and a 1.5 inch closed tear to the center with corresponding rubbing and creasing (between the a and r of "Warrior"). Otherwise bright and unfaded. …