lamb lynton illustrations (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st trade edition. B&W illustrations. 110 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Lynton Lamb (illustratore). 1st Edition. First published in 1939, this is a first illustrated edition, first impression of 1956. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of largely dark orange / pale brown jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (10s 5d), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for it's age 96pp. 'Heaven Lies About Us' recounts Howard Spring's childhood in Cardiff during the closing years of the 19th century. He grew up in an impoverished but loving family and left school at age 12 to support them after his father's death. The path of a writer, Spring's memoir details his humble beginnings working as an errand boy for a newspaper. This experience was his first step into the world of journalism and literature, which he pursued through evening classes, before later becoming a bestselling author. Howard Spring (1889-1965), was a Welsh author and journalist. He began his writing career as a journalist but from 1934 produced a series of bestselling novels for adults and children. The most successful was 'Fame Is the Spur' (1940), which was later adapted into a film starring Michael Redgrave, and later still a BBC TV series (1982) starring Tim Pigott-Smith and David Hayman. Quite a scarce book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket and illustrations by Lynton Lamb (illustratore). Reprint. First published in 1882, this is a third impression of this new edition, published 1954. Some fairly minor edge wear to top and bottom of unlaminated jacket and spine, spine slightly browned, corners slightly rubbed, not price clipped (12s 6d), some smeary rubbed out pencil prices to ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 112pp. In the Barsetshire town of Plumplington the daughter of the town's leading banker and the daughter of its brewer have each chosen their future husbands. But both young men are regarded by the fathers as unsuitable, even though each suitor is, in fact, much like the respective father when at that age. The young ladies, with the support of the Rector, each endeavor to get their way. The brewer's daughter refuses to wear the silk dresses her father buys for her, choosing to dress down to her future station of life is she marries without her father's consent. Meanwhile, the banker's daughter takes to her bed and refuses to eat. The fathers, of course, are eventually forced to give in, leaving the Rector triumphant, and the young couples very happy! Although not one of the Barchester Chronicles, this book is set within that context, and makes references to the events of The Warden.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Lynton Lamb [Chapter heading illustrations] (illustratore). First Edition. A third impression of the true first edition, published in 1966. The book was originally published in 1948. With chapter heading line drawing illustrations by Lynton Lamb. ***Near fine in green cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still beautifully bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine slightly creased, otherwise no bumps or creasing to the boards. Corners sharp. Boards clean and unmarked. Top edge of page block slightly foxed. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean with no marks or creases and nice white paper. No reading crease to the spine. Binding square and tight. ***In a very good colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 25s. net. The dustwrapper is complete, with just some very light creasing and rubbing to the extremities. There is the shadow from a sticker [since removed] on the front panel, and a light coffee-cup ring mark to the back panel. The spine colour has lightly faded. No chips. No tears. No creasing. ***210 mm x 140 mm. 233 pages. ***'Flora Jane Thompson (née Timms; 5 Dec 1876 - 21 May 1947) was an English novelist and poet best known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy about the English countryside, "Lark Rise to Candleford"'. [Wiki] ***'This is a portrait of an Oxfordshire village, and the story of the lives of some of the inhabitants in the period round about Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee in 1887. In those years life in such remote country places flowed peacefully; war was no more than a subject for school history lessons and for old men's tales by the winter fireside; the motor bus, the cinema, and the wireless broadcast were still in the unglimpsed future; hard work with plain fare was the ordinary villagers' lot and they had, as they themselves said, troubles enough and to spare. But life was not all hardship; such pleasures as came their way were enjoyed with a wholeheartedness unknown to-day. The village feast and the flower show were highlights of the year; the may-garland was still carried in procession on May Day; there were mummers at Christmas; weddings and christenings, harvest homes, pig feasts, alehouse jollity, and dancing on the green. In the intervals between such doings the villagers had to depend upon personal resources for entertainment, and with what zest they lived and the complications they encountered are recorded here by an eyewitness who had already shown in "Lark Rise to Candleford" her unique gift of preserving in attractive and accomplished prose a phase of English life which might otherwise pass unrecorded.' [Quote taken from the inside front flap of the dustwrapper] ***A third impression of Flora Thompson's "Still Glides the Stream" in very nice collectable condition. Embellished with line drawings by Lynton Lamb. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Heritage Press edition. A Fine copy in Near Fine slipcase. 4to., illustrated. Brown cloth, housed in publisher's slipcase. The Heritage newsletter, SANDGLASS, laid in. A Fine copy in Near Fine slipcase.

Condizione: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original black and olive paper cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 144 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Foxing to the edges, light ghosting to the end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with tan age spots to the white of the flaps, not price clipped 21s. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Lord Love Us with illustrations by Lynton Lamb. (illustratore). The first edition, first printing of five Kafkaesque works by William Sansom, four of which are uncommon, with the original dust wrappers. The first edition, first printing of these works: Something Terrible, Something Lovely(1948), The Passionate North (1950), A Touch of Sun(1952), A Bed of Roses(1954), andLord Love Us (1954), all published by The Hogarth Press. The Hogarth Press was created by Virginia and Leonard Woolf and named after their house in Richmond. During the company's earlier, interwar years, the pair would hand print books with the aid of a press in their dining room. Their press remains an important detail in the history of Modernist and modern printing and publishing.Each with the original unclipped dust wrapper, barringSomething Terrible, which is with the original clipped dust wrapper.Lord Love Uswith 16 vignette illustrations by the English artist Lynton Lamb.Something Terrible, The Passionate North, A Touch of Sun, andA Bed of Roses, uncommon.Having been described as 'London's closest equivalent to Franz Kafka', William Sansom was a particularly adroit writer of twentieth-century London life, offering lucid descriptions of the war's impact on England's capital city. As well as novels, Sansom wrote a number of short story collections, of which Something Terrible, The Passionate North, A Touch of Sun, and Lord Love Us, are excellent examples. In the original publisher's binding (full cloth for all except 'Lord Love Us', which is quarter cloth with decorated paper covers). All with the original unclipped dust wrapper except 'Something Terrible', which is with the original clipped wrapper. Externally, generally smart with the odd mark to the boards and a minor damp stain to the front top edge of 'Something terrible' and to the spine's cloth of 'Lord Love us'. A touch of bumping to the heads and tails of spines and to extremities. Wrappers have some minor chips and closed tears, with one heavier chip to front top edge of 'Something Terrible' . Slight sunning and toning to all wrappers, notably to the spines, and light spotting to wrapper of 'A Touch'. Internally, all firmly bound with generally bright, clean pages; the odd minor closed tear to the text block's fore edge and offsetting to the endpapers, light toning, and the odd spot. One heavier spot to pp. 106-107 'Lord Love Us'. Previous owner's neat inscription to front first free endpaper of 'A Touch', and a minor deletion mark to same page of 'Lord Love Us'. Very Good. book.