illustrator 1907 1977 (4 risultati)

First edition (with publisher's "E-A" letter code for May 1951 upon the title page). [10], 335 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14.25cm. Dust jacket with pictorial front panel illustrated by Paul Gladone, spine lacking bottom 6cm with shallow chipping at head and surface abrasion along joint folds, toning to white rear panel and at flap edges; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Blue cloth, slight scuffing at spine ends with shallow light moisture stain at head. Toning to endpapers. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good copy in only a good dust jacket.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. Dated 7 June 1959 and written on headed. 136 words written on in green ink both sides of a single sheet. Nicely detailed and specific notes in appreciation of AR's new book, A Matter of Life and Death: 'What compelling and literally exact titles you lean on. I find titlesof all things the most difficult; but then in poictures they are almost always wholly irrelevant; and anything I write does not need.such final distillation by the ear'.

#48 of a limited edition of 650 copies (per publisher's rear colophon). [10], 134, [3] pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.5cm. No dust jacket as issued. Blue cloth well rubbed with some staining; shallow cloth loss at frayed spine ends; board corners lightly bumped with slight wear to rear board's bottom corner. Ink markings on front endpapers and at bottom of page 21; past owner's ink signature and personal doodle at half title page with ink markings at page center of which one intrudes upon the title lettering; a few scattered small stains to leaves which, overall, remain clean. Binding is firm. A good+ copy of an uncommon book. Greenville, Mississippi's Levee Press, led by principals Hodding Carter (1907-1972), Ben Wasson (1899-1982), and Kenneth Haxton (1919-2002), may have only issued four titles (with a combined "official" print run of 2635 copies) in seven years but the fine press is placed among the elite in American publishing history. This posthumous William Alexander Percy title was The Levee Press' final title preceded by THE MERCHANT OF BRISTOL by Shelby Foote in 1947, MUSIC FROM SPAIN by Eudora Welty in 1948, and NOTES ON A HORSETHIEF by William Faulkner in 1950. Title page and section title page silhouette tree decorations by Newcomb College-trained Greenville, Mississippi artist Elizabeth Calvert who may have found her inspiration for her illustrations in the cypress tress that adorn the banks of Lake Washington approximately twenty-five miles south of her hometown.

Postcard with painting of Rialto Bridge by Canaletto. Postmarked 1970. Ruckled with damp but entirely legible. An amusing communication, beginning 'Thought I would let you know that we were not involved in the great tornado that sunk a voporetto [sic] on Lirica 4, and that the Hotel alla Fava is still very comfortable.' Refers to the Lambs' 'self-contained eyrie' and 'the weak fast coffee which tastes of mud; but clearly and obviously isn't'. Asks why 'that in some ways great and good man Ruskin should have blamed Canaletto for "his culpable lack of detail"?' Ends 'Much learning doth make thee mad.' Scan on application.