leon benett illustrator (19 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. [Early Illustrated Work of Jules Verne] Bound in publisher's ornately decorated red cloth. Binding poor, spine taped, Front board nearly detached, rear board detached. [4], viii, 211, [5], 217, [7] pages : illustrations, colored map ; 28 cm. Sold with all faults. French.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. De Neuville, Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe; Benett, Léon (illustratore). 250 pages. 6.00x0.76x9.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: New. Benett, Leon (illustratore). In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Mit Frontispiz, zahlreichen Abbildungen im Text und auf Tafeln, 444 Seiten, Teilweise stockfleckig, sonst gutes festes Exemplar. Die Ecken bestossen Sprache: Französisch 4°, rotes Ohldr auf 5 Bünden mit Rückenvergoldung und Vollgoldschnitt.

Hardcover. Condizione: Wie neu. ---. nein.

[Castaway Adventure] EARLY CHEAP EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.151 [1]; 142. With engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Yellow-coated endpapers. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Upper hinge split, with evidence of an old repair. Quite heavily cocked, with some proud gatherings suggesting repairs. Light toning to title page, with occasional minor marks and blemishes throughout. Moderate rubbing to cloth, with some particular marks to lower board. Good. UK abridgement of 'A Two-Years' Vacation', first published in 1888 and translated into English by 1889, in which a troop of school-boys are stranded on a South Pacific island.

[Amazon Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, an early edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] xiv; 254 [4]. With a folding map and 79 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt and black titles and decoration to spine, and black titles to upper. Bookplate to front pastedown. Lightly toned throughout. Spine toned with heavy wear and fraying to head and tail. Very good. A Peruvian man decides to use the Amazon river to travel to Brazil to marry off his daughter, and to collect proof that he is innocent of a crime committed long ago. First published in two volumes in 1881-82, and first published in a single volume in 1884.

[Science Fiction Adventure] THIRD UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 16cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]. Engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spines and uppers, coated yellow endpapers. Contents clean, ink ownerships to endpapers, cloth remains bright and fresh. A near fine copy. A feast of steam-powered elephants and revenge, set in India ten years after the great Sepoy rebellion of 1857. The second part was published as 'Tigers and Traitors'. Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid, M.A. (1912-2009) writer, film-maker and cinema historian, and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne.

[Science Fiction] EARLY EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 382 [2]. With 79 illustrated plates including a frontispiece by Benett. Recently re-cased in publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and pink and blue decoration to spine and upper, with new cream endpapers. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Strong tobacco scent. Spotting to frontispiece tissue guard. Heavily cocked. Very heavy rubbing to cloth, with most colour lost from the spine. Good. A novel following a string quartet resident on a giant moving island populated by millionaires enjoying a perpetual cruise around the Pacific. First published in 1895, with an English edition appearing in 1896.

First Edition. [Ottoman Adventure] FIRST UK EDITION, a later issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 223 [33]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1886. With 49 engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Benett. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Ink ownerhip and bookplates to the endpapers. Some reading marks within. A used copy with some wear to binding; joints worn, some marks to covers, lettering rubbed, inside paper joints cracked. Possibly a cheaper copy using spare sheets from the first edition of 1884, bound in the covers intended for the 1887 edition. The first volume in a two part tale of a journey around the entire coastline of the Black Sea, featuring two Dutchmen and a legendarily stubborn Turk who decides to take the long way around when he learns of the imposition of a new tax on craft crossing the Bosphorus between the old city of Constantinople and the eastern suburb of Uskudar. Featuring wonderful illustrations of the mosques and monuments of Istanbul, and other well-know locations along the route. Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid, M.A. (1912-2009) writer, film-maker and cinema historian, and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne.

First Edition. [French Literature] FIRST FREWER EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[2] viii; 262 [4]. With 49 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Some heavy creasing and a couple of small tears to fly-leaf and first blank. Lightly toned throughout; a distinct tobacco scent. Heavy toning to spine and board margins. Very good. Something of a farce, in which a wealthy Chinese man tries to have himself killed to trigger a life insurance policy after being informed that he has lost his fortune, only to discover later that he has not lost everything. First translated into English in the US in 1879. Although this edition is made up from sheets printed in London with a title page dated 1881, it was actually published just before the London edition in October 1880, since Sampson Low had decided to save its own publication for the Christmas gift market in November. It is therefore neither the first edition in English, nor the first UK edition, but it is the first edition of this particular translation.

First Edition. [Science Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.viii; 272. With numerous illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper, all edges gilt. A well-used copy with joints rubbed/worn, re-cased without half-title and frontis, replacement endpapers (circa 1932, with dated ink name). Good only. An inexpensive copy of the first British edition. When a huge inheritance of over 500 million Franks is divided in two, the heirs build two very different private cities - one a peaceful utopian society; the other a war machine devoted to the other's destruction. Provenance; H.A.V. Bulleid, M.A. (1912-2009) writer, film-maker and cinema historian, and an amateur bibliographer of Jules Verne.

[French Literature] FIRST SEPARATE EDITION. Quarto (28 x 19cm), pp.[4] 244 [8]. With 45 engravings after Benett, including six chromotypographic plates and a frontispiece. All text in French. Facsimile dedication to half-title. Publisher's red cloth with black decoration to lower board, and highly elaborate decoration in colour and gilt to upper. All edges gilt; grey/green endpapers. Black ink gift inscription to fly-leaf dated January 1897. Gently toned throughout, as usual. Light rubbing to cloth, with some fraying to corners, and head / tail of spine, as well as a 2cm split to tail of upper hinge. Especially light wear to decorative cover; a lovely bright copy. Very good. While on a journey from France to Algeria a pair of cousins attempt to save the life of a wealthy man with no legal heirs, so that they might be legally adopted. Also issued in a double-volume with 'Face au Drapeau' in the same year.

First Edition. [Ottoman Adventure] FIRST UK EDITION, a later issue. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.viii; 223 [33]. Publisher's catalogue dated October 1886. With 49 engraved plates, including a frontispiece, by Benett. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spine and upper. Light toning throughout, and a distinct tobacco scent; slightly cocked. Fairly light wear to cloth and some toning to spine. A superior copy. Near fine. Possibly a cheaper copy using spare sheets from the first edition of 1884, bound in the covers intended for the 1887 edition. The first volume in a two part tale of a journey around the entire coastline of the Black Sea, featuring two Dutchmen and a legendarily stubborn Turk who decides to take the long way around when he learns of the imposition of a new tax on craft crossing the Bosphorus between the old city of Constantinople and the eastern suburb of Uskudar. Featuring wonderful illustrations of the mosques and monuments of Istanbul, and other well-know locations along the route.

[Science Fiction Adventure] SECOND UK EDITIONS. Complete in two volumes. Octavo (19 x 16cm), pp.viii; 262 [2]; pp.viii; 246 [2]. With a total of 98 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and black decoration to spines and uppers. Both volumes re-cased some time ago, with spotting and wear to replacement white endpapers. Lower hinge of volume I just starting. Light even toning throughout, with a distinct tobacco scent. Both volumes slightly cocked. Moderate wear to cloth, and corners bumped. Very good. A feast of steam-powered elephants and revenge, set in India ten years after the great Sepoy rebellion of 1857. This translation first published in London between 1880 and 1881.

First Edition. [Historical Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 30-4; [1], blank [34]. With seventy-six engraved plates, complete. A set of loose sheets which were never cased in the publisher's cloth (edges entirely untrimmed, not gilded), now bound in period-style marbled boards. Contents and plates clean, deckled edges a little dusty, modern covers as new. One of Verne's rarest British first editions, this is a largely forgotten Irish novel, being a heart-warming story of a young orphan's trials and tribulations in late nineteenth century Ireland. Mick journeys to Westport, Galway, Limerick, Tralee Cork, and Belfast, all of which are vividly pictured. On his travels he meets beggars, thieves, farmers, and landlords, eventually arriving in Dublin where his fortunes improve. Often described as Verne's tribute to Charles Dickens, this book also shows the Frenchman's affection and respect for Ireland and her people.

[Science Fiction Adventure] FIRST US EDITIONS. Complete in two volumes. Octavos (19 x 14 x 7cm), pp.viii; 262; [12], pp.viii; 246; [10]. With a total of 96 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles and black/gilt decoration to spines and uppers. No inscriptions, joints intact, contents mostly clean (marginal stain to pp.17/18 vol.II), spotting to eps., cloth a little rubbed, spines toned. A very good set. A feast of steam-powered elephants and revenge, set in India ten years after the great Sepoy rebellion of 1857. Both volumes are illustrated throughout with a multitude of atmospheric (or demented, depending on your perspective) engravings depicting the adventures of our somewhat bloodthirsty heroes as they criss-cross post-mutiny India, for the most part travelling inside a giant steam car pulled by a locomotive cast into the shape of a massive elephant. From any other author this would sound strange, but coming from the man who regularly fires his protagonists into space or sinks them beneath the waves it's clearly all in a day's work.

First Edition. [Romantic Adventure] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, third issue. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.viii; 320. With 45 engraved plates by Benett, including a frontispiece with tissue guard. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and grey, black and orange decoration to spine and upper. Black ink school prize inscription to fly-leaf dated Christmas 1901. Hinge weak but holding. Heavy spotting to tissue guard,and a little spotting to facing title and frontis. Purple ink stamp of Cholmeley House, Eastbourne, to title page. Gentle spotting and toning throughout, with a light tobacco scent. Blue ink ownership to recto of rear fly-leaf. Marginal tear to plate facing p.176. Blue ink spots to pp.114-115. Cholmeley House stamp also to p.101. An early gathering slightly loose. Quite heavy rubbing to cloth, with some minor splash marks to lower board and sunning to spine. Good. While on a journey from France to Algeria a pair of cousins attempt to save the life of a wealthy man with no legal heirs, so that they might be legally adopted. This translation was first published in the same year as the original French, in a deluxe edition with gilt edges, and a trade edition lacking them. This cheaper edition from September 1898 lacks both the gilt edges and bevelled boards, but is otherwise identical to the first. Never published in America.

[Mystery Adventure] VINTAGE COPY, a later edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 360. With a selection of Benett's engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and polychrome decoration to spine and upper. Black ink church choir prize inscription filling the fly-leaf, dated January 1917. Blue ink ownership to recto of rear fly-leaf. Lower corner of p.321/22 torn away, including some text. Lightly toned throughout with occasional small marks. Moderate wear to boards, and heavy wear and toning to spine. Good. A lady loses her husband to a long sea voyage and her only child not long after. Following four years raving mad, she resolves to travel to Australia seeking her husband's lost ship in the hope he may still be alive and lost in the wilds. First published in 1891, with the first of this translation appearing in 1892. This 'new and cheaper' edition, featuring a new cover design, is especially rare.