john minton illustrator (16 risultati)

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

paperback. Condizione: New. Minton, John (illustratore). In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

paperback. Condizione: New. Minton, John (illustratore). In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Minton, John (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition of a revised and amended edition of two books: 'O! More Than Happy Countryman' and 'The Heart of the Country.' ( both out of print at the time of this publication ). Published by Michael Joseph, London in 1949. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine/Very Good. Dustjacket condition: Very Good/Near Fine. Clean and tightly bound for a book of this age with no marks to the page edges. The top edge stain has retained its dark green colour with no fading. There is offsetting to the front and rear end-papers and light foxing ( as is highlighted in two of the photos ). There is a small and very neat gift inscription ( also pictured ) dating from the year of publication. Publisher's compliments slip is also present. The Dustjacket with its striking design by John Minton, is in Very Good condition for a book of this age. There is some rubbing and creasing mainly to the lower edge, with a small amount of loss ( less than 0.5 cm ) at the base of the spine. Otherwise, there is no fading, foxing or discolouration. Not Price-clipped. Publisher's price of 12s 6d. The book is signed by both the author and the illustrator without dedication to the title page. There are forty-seven attractive line drawings by Minton throughout the book. This a rare and charming book with essays and observations on country life from a long lost age. Apparently, the county of Kent and in particular the village of Chart Sutton near Maidstone was the inspiration for John Minton's illustrations. Overall a Very Good to Near Fine book and hard to find in this condition and with the double signature. Signed by Author(s).

2nd edn revised. 8vo. Original gilt lettered grey cloth (boards lightly toned at edges - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (covers rather tone and small tears and nicks at edges - in protective wrapper, not price clipped). Pp. x + 207, illus with b&w drawings by John Minton (small mark at fore-edge and previous owner's neat inscription on front free endpaper).

2nd imp. good grey cloth hardcover with worn dustjacket in several pieces.247p. includes index. Slight foxing, past owners name on endpaper.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. [Travel and Cookery] BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.207 [1]. With occasional vignette illustrations by Minton. Publisher's blue leatherette with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Minton, not priced. Minor toning and spotting to edges, otherwise internally clean. Bright jacket shows heavy wear, creasing, and some loss to edges. Very good. A classic collection of recipes inspired by travels in France, Italy and Greece, first published in 1950.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First American Edition. First printing full beige cloth hardcover with original John Minton dust jacket. Tight and well cared for copy. Unmarked with mild offset from old style dust jacket cover to lower endpapers. Dust jacket is price-clipped and has a small shallow chip to upper spine panel, lightly rubbed at corners. Offered in new mylar cover. 247pp., index, illustrations by John Minton. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Softcover. Condizione: Very good. No jacket. Cover artwork by John Minton; numerous illustrations, advertisements. (illustratore). First editions. 3 issues. 4to. Original pictorial wrappers. Three issues of this left-wing periodical, designed to bring art and culture to the common man. These were the only issues to feature cover artwork by the illustrator & artist John Minton, including an illustration from his work based on the quays & wharves around Southwark and Bankside, and another entitled 'Jam Session', reflecting Minton's own interest in Jazz music. Uncommon. Minor tanning and creasing, mild fading to third issue, overall very good. Book.

First Edition. [Travel book] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.[2] 189 [3]. With more than 50 illustrations by John Minton, including eight colour-plates. Recently rebound in yellow half morocco, with gilt titles to a green label and twin raised bands to spine, and matching cloth over boards. With the publisher's original cloth spine bound in at rear. Toning and spotting to edges, otherwise a clean copy presented in an attractive new leather binding.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. First Edition. [Travel book] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (25 x 18cm), pp.189 [3]. Publisher's yellow cloth with green titles to spine, with usual state of dust-jacket designed by John Minton, printed price 21s to flap. Internally a clean and crisp copy. Slight bumping to upper, central and lower spine. Minor bumping to front board corners. Tearing to dust-jacket edges and corners, more so on spine. A 10cm tear to lower left front of jacket. Near fine, a bright copy. Includes over fifty illustrations by John Minton, with eight in full colour.

First edition. Illustrations, including eight full-page ones in colour, by Minton. 4to. Original second state binding in yellow cloth with green lettering on spine, dust jacket also designed by Minton. London, John Lehmann. A very good copy, dust jacket with some edge wear and browned along spine and verso. With a clipping from a Christie's catalogue on a Minton artwork loosely inserted.  From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell's Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell's Complete Works published 1997-8.

London: John Lehmann. 1950, 1953. 8vo. Two volumes. 1. First edition, 1950; 8vo. Original pink tweed cloth, spine lettered in gilt to ornamental brown background, in the John Minton illustrated dustwrapper; pp. 191, [1], two-page frontispiece, illustrations throughout; a well-used copy, binding firm and square, contemporary ownership inscription ("Fay Behrman, Dec. 50") to front free endpaper, rear pastedown and upper edge of frontispiece, her name additionally written in block capitals (with indeterminate doodle) to front endpaper and closed fore-edge of page block, additional pasted-in recipes now loose owing to dried adhesive, numerous marks from adhesive residue, further recipes in manuscript (pencil and ink) to front and rear blanks and endpapers, dustwrapper chipped and rubbed to extremities, minor loss to lower spine-tip and upper outer corner, adhesive residue to flaps; Provenance: previously owned by Fay Behrman (1920-2014); a well-used, much-loved copy in very good dustwrapper.2. Fifth Impression, November 1952; 8vo. Original pink cloth, spine (once) lettered gilt to ornamental brown background (lettering now worn away), lacking the dustwrapper; pp. xi, [3], 191, [1], two-page frontispiece, illustrations throughout; lacking dustwrapper; a firm, square copy, rubbed to spine, cloth lightly faded to upper edges, small diagonal crease to upper corner of p. 93; inscribed by Elizabeth David to Norman Jenks, "in gratitude, February 1953"; a very good copy, the contents clean and bright.Two copies of Elizabeth David's first book - a well-loved first edition with attractive provenance and a reprint inscribed by the author. Published at a time of post-war austerity, David's recipes and John Minton's illustrations offered a welcome draught of Mediterranean warmth and sensory pleasure into the kitchens and minds of English readers. It is difficult, today, to imagine the impact of Elizabeth David's early books on a British population still subject to post-war austerity and rationing. A Book of Mediterranean Food, her first book, appeared in 1950 when, the author later wrote, "almost every essential ingredient of good cooking was either rationed or unobtainable." Having spent the war years travelling and working in France, Italy, Greece, Egypt and India, she returned to England in 1946 for reasons of health. "Without a job, and with precious little to do except cook", she began compiling recipes learned on her travels, "less with any thought of future publication than as a personal antidote to the bleak conditions and acute food shortages of [.] post-war England". A Book of Mediterranean Food, rejected by numerous publishers, was eventually taken on by John Lehmann, a literary publisher not readily associated with books about food. When John Minton's "stunning" jacket appeared in shop windows, David recalled, "his brilliant blue Mediterranean bay, his tables spread with white cloths and bright fruit, bowls of pasta and rice, a lobster, pitchers and jugs and bottles of wine, could be seen far down the street". Cookery books quickly date, but David's, with their impeccable prose, literary sensibility (the volume is studded with quotations from writers, including her friends Norman Douglas and Lawrence Durrell), and Minton's beautiful illustrations, are read and used to this day. At a time when people "could not very often make the dishes here described", David notes, it was nevertheless "stimulating to think about them; to escape from the deadly boredom of queuing and the frustration of buying the weekly rations; to read about real food cooked with wine and olive oil, eggs and butter and cream, and dishes richly flavoured with onions, garlic, herbs, and brightly coloured southern vegetables.".

London: John Lehmann. 1958. 8vo. Original oatmeal cloth lettered in gilt over ornamental brown lettering piece to spine, in jacket designed byJohn Minton; pp. 207, [1, (publisher's advertisements)], two-page frontispiece, illustrations throughout; light toning to fore-edge of textblock, a couple of tiny marks to lower edge, small black ink mark (c. 4 mm) to cloth at lower edge of rear panel, front flap of jacket darkened to outer edge; half-title signed by Elizabeth David in blue ink, neat contemporary gift inscription to upper corner of front free endpaper; a lovely bright, near fine copy in a notably sharp, clean example of the wrapper.A lovely copy of the second, revised edition of this pioneering traversal of French cuisine, signed by Elizabeth David and with a bright example of the striking John Minton wrapper. Following the success of A Book of Mediterranean Food, David's publisher, John Lehmann, swiftly commissioned its sequel, this time turning to the dishes of rural France. French Country Cooking was first published in 1951, while food rationing was still in place. In an essay on David, Julian Barnes writes that 'readers [of David's early books] were inevitably indulging in a little light gastroporn. If male adolescents of the time consumed girlie magazines while waiting for the real thing, British domestic cooks had a few panting years to endure before the garlic and basil became available and olive oil was liberated from the chemist's.'Dedicated to the author's mother, French Country Cooking was clearly a labour of love as well as a feat of scholarship, introducing English readers to a rich diversity of French cuisine from pheasant soup of the Basque country to Lyonnaise Poulet a la Creme. Chapters are devoted to soups, fish, eggs, luncheon, supper and family dishes, meat, poultry, game, vegetables, sweets, sauces and preserves. 'E.D. wrote as she cooked: with simplicity, purity, colour, self-effacing authority, and a respect for tradition' (Barnes).Once again, John Minton was recruited for the illustrations. His radiant jacket for the Mediterranean book was a hard act to follow, but the kitchen interior he conjured, complete with its view through an open door, is equally special. See Barnes, 'The Land Without Brussels Sprouts', in Something to Declare (2002).

FIRST EDITION, frontispiece, title-page design and drawings throughout by John Minton (many full-page and some colour-printed), title-page printed in green and black, pp. 189, royal 8vo, original canary yellow cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt against a green ground with decorations in gilt at either end, the lettering a little rubbed, corners at head gently knocked, very faint mark to upper board, very faint tape shadows to free endpapers, the dustjacket with an overall design by John Minton, a little chipped at corners and ends of backstrip panel, the latter a little tatty at foot with some external tape repair to tears, the same at head of upper joint-fold, very good. Inscribed by John Minton on the flyleaf, in his distinctive hand: 'Kenneth - from Johnny, Nov. 1948'. The recipient was Kenneth Lawrence, with whom Minton had been at Reading School in the 1930s - hence, perhaps, the use of a familiar form of his name, not generally used in his adult life. The pair remained close, with Lawrence receiving numerous letters and artworks from Minton before the latter's early death in 1957. Ross's travel narrative and poetry combine with Minton's wonderful illustrations to achieve an elegant and highly distinctive work, one of the most admired works of illustration in its era; presentation copies are uncommon.