aberconway christabel whistler rex (29 résultats)

Maroon Backed Grey Boards. Etat : Very Good - See Description. Etat de la jaquette : None. Whistler, Rex (illustrateur). First Edition. Unnumbered pages, [3] tipped-in colour illustrations, [16] black and white illustrations by Rex Whistler. Delightful tale for children of all ages, Whistler's delicately coloured and delineated illustrations enliven a whimsical text. Hb, in maroon backed grey boards, gilt Mr Korah figure on lower corner of upper board, gilt lettering to spine darkened and difficult to read, fading to top edge of lower board, very slightly sprung, no dw, internally very good.

(38)pp. Illus. (partly color). 4to. Cloth. D.j.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto. 7.75 x 10 in. Unpaginated. Fully illustrated with black & white reproductions of artworks and tipped in color plates by Rex Whistler. Very good in original two-tone paper-covered boards, sticker ghost to front free endpaper and very good pictorial dust jacket, foxing.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Michael Joseph, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 ½ x 10". 33 pp. Very good in a good dust jacket. The dust jacket is protected in mylar. Moderate rubbing and soiling to the dust jacket. The interior appears unmarked. The binding is solid.

Grey Cloth/Red Cloth Spine. Etat : Good/Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Rex Whistler (illustrateur). unpaginated, illustrated with black & white drawings and three full-page colour plates tipped in, all by Rex Whistler, occasional thumb smudges to pages, grey endpapers, grey cloth with small gilt illustration to bottom corner of upper board, faded red cloth spine with gilt spine lettering (dulled), no dust jacket. Size: 10 x 7.5 Inches. Children's - Illustrated.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrateur). 1st Edition. DJ in Mylar but dulled from age, some very minor foxing title page, but end plates clean Aberconway and Whistler were friends and when the author first wrote the book, the illustrator finished sketches along with him but the author did not decide to publish until "after the war (WWII". Sadly, Whistler had only completed converting three of the sketches to color plates for the story. Those three along with his original sketches illustrate the story beautifully. A real find and a great children's book. Unpaginated but has approximately 20 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrateur). Rex Whistler was a regular visitor to the young authors home where he challenged her to invent a story which he would illustrate with quick pencil sketches as she unfolded it verbatim. A year later in the early period of WW2 he suggested that he would like to make larger coloured drawings from the sketches so the story could be published after the war. He only finished three dying in action in 1944.

Grey Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrateur). First Edition. 44 pages, tipped-in colour plates & b/w sketches. Grey cloth binding, with red spine. Minor wear, bumping to covers, contents fine, some edgewear, soiling to unclipped dustjacket. [14551/808] Size: 255mm. x 190mm. Book.

Blue-green stiff printed wrappers. A bit of rubbing, or offsetting from adjacent books, light wear to corners, a clean very good copy. Illustrated with reproductions of pencil drawings, one folding. A privately-printed sequel to the 1954 book by Whistler & Aberconway, "The Story of Mr. Korah".

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Rex Whistler (illustrateur). First Edition. Size: 4to 9 3/4 - 12". Unpaginated. Binding firm, spine cocked. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Dust Jacket marked and chipped. Covers slightly marked. Corners slightly bumped. Illustrator: Rex Whistler. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Children; Fiction. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 60604.

First Edition. Grey cloth, red backstrip, gilt to backstrip and vignette to lower corner. No DW. Tipped in coloured frontis + 2 tipped in coloured plates with b/w plates and illustrations within text. Unpaginated. Boards sunned to margins with a few stains. Contents sl. thumbed with 3cm tear to lower margin of one page. Lower edges of some pages rippled slightly o/w VG.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. A fine copy, undated and privately printed, six tipped in illustrations.

Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Whistler, Rex (illustrateur). First edition. 1st 1954. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Grey cloth with red spine. Gilt vignette to lower front corner. Delightful tipped-in colour plates and b/w drawings. How Mr. Korah is taken captive by an octopus but lives to tell the tale. Spine and corners bumped. A few light foxspots to textblock. Faint whiff of tobacco to contents. Dustwrapper is just a little grubby. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Rex Whistler (illustrateur). First Edition. vg dj (price clipped) a little dusty, a few very short tears, light grey boards with red spine, gilt front vignette & spine lettering, top edge a little faded, 3 mounted colour plates + many sketches in the text by REX WHISTLER, light foxing internally and on foredges, vg. 4to, unpaginated. The story was told around 1940 by Christabel to her friend Rex Whistler, who made lightning sketches at the time. He wanted to redraw the pictures in colour for publication after the war but he was killed in France in 1944. He had only completed 3 colour drawings, also some of the pencil sketches were lost.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed on front free endpaper "For Margaret, her husband and HER CHILDREN with all good wishes, from Christabel Aberconway July '67". Illustrated with 3 tipped-in color plates and numerous b/w pencil sketches by Rex Whistler. Near fine in dust wrapper, litte toned to spine, not price clipped. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION 1954, 4to, 255 x 190 mm, 10 x 7½ inches, grey cloth with red cloth spine, gilt vignette to upper cover, gilt lettered spine, (44) pages. Mounted coloured frontispiece, 2 further mounted coloured plates, some black and white illustrations. No inscriptions, near Fine in very good DUSTWRAPPER (dw: not price clipped, very slightly marked, slightly darkened on spine, slightly worn at head of spine with minute chips, tiny nick at tail of spine, top corners just very slightly worn). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.

Booklet. Etat : Very Good. 8p staple-bound book, turquoise card cover, minimal wear, light marks around cover edges, pages clean and neat, prints are excellent reproductions of original drawings, a very good copy of a rare privately-printed edition Language: English.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Small 4to. Quarter-bound paper-covered cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. With three full-page tipped-in Whistler illustrations in colour and a further sixteen line drawings. Upper extremities of boards fractionally faded, and with the faintest hint of spotting to the upper margins of three leaves. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly tanned at spine panel, edges minimally rubbed and with several tiny nicks but no loss. One of Whistler's final projects, eventually published ten years after his death; the three colour plates were the only drawings he had completed, the line drawings here being his preliminary sketches.

Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : dw. Whistler, Rex (illustrateur). 1st. With dustwrapper. Produced posthumously from sketches drawn at a dinner party ten years earlier.

Hardcover. Etat de la jaquette : Dust jacket. First Edition. Three bright plates, and other drawings within the text. Price clipped, dj worn at extremities and slightly foxed. Tiny foxing to prelims and a touch of marking and wear to dj. Vg indeed in vg dj.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition (first printing). Quarter-bound paper-covered cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with a small gilt-stamped vignette to the upper board. With three full-page tipped-in Whistler illustrations in colour and a further sixteen line drawings. Upper extremities of boards lightly faded. Some browning along inside of biding and hinges a little broken but not impacting the overall condition of the book. Dust jacket in fair condition with some rubbing along its edges and closed tears and creases. Otherwise contents are complete, clean and free from annotations or inscriptions. One of Whistler's final projects, eventually published ten years after his death; the three colour plates were the only drawings he had completed, the line drawings here being his preliminary sketches.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Rex Whistler (illustrateur). 1st Edition. The Story of M. Korah was written by Christabel Aberconway and illustrated by Rex Whistler (along with the many black-and-white illustrations there are three TIPPED IN full color plates.) The book was published by Michael Joseph in 1954 and appears to be a First Edition though it's not specifically stated as such. The book is 7 1/2" by 9 7/8" and has about 30 pages with large print and Whistler's illustrations. This copy is NOT an ex-library copy, it has no dust jacket, and it's in good + to very good condition. It DOES have the name of a previous owner printed neatly on the front loose end page and the spine is getting brittle. Thank you!

Cloth. Etat : Very Good Indeed. Rex Whistler (illustrateur). A first edition copy of this tale inspired by the Bible, illustrated by Rex Whistler and complete with a clipped dust wrapper. Inspired by the story of Korah as it appears in the Bible.Written by Christabel Aberconway.Illustrated with tipped-in drawings in colour by Rex Whistler. He was hoping to make large coloured drawing from his pencil sketches before his untimely death in the Second World War.Complete with a clipped dust wrapper.A lovely copy of this delightful work. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with a clipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a touch of edgewear. Dust wrapper is a little sunned to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Rex Whistler (illustrateur). 1st Edition. 4to. Bound in grey cloth boards with a red cloth spine. Inscribed by author in ink 'For Villiers wishing (?) a very happy Christmas and New year from Christabel and Mr. Korah. December 1955 '. Ex libris plate of C.H.L.Bledisloe on blank endpaper on verso of front board. Not paginated. [42pp]. an introduction by the authoress how the book came in to being over tea. Rex Whistler was never able to finish the colour drawings that he had sketched out as he was killed in July of 1944 in the war. Therefore only three of the illustrations are large tipped in colour plates after his watercolours, the other fourteen illustrations are in black and white line, reproducing the sketches that Rex Whistler had made before his death. The boards are heavily worn and slightly grubby. Inside the endpapers are foxed, otherwise very clean. Size 25 x 19cm (10 x 7.5inches)Christabel, Lady Aberconway was born Christabel Mary Melville Macnaghten to a distinguished Irish family, in 1890. Christabel Macnaghten already had illustrious friends in literary and artistic circles. In 1910, she married Henry Duncan McLaren who eventually inherited the title Lord Aberconway in 1934 upon his father s death. As become her station, Christabel McLaren cultivated the friendships of writers and artists. Her relationships with several of them, especially Osbert Sitwell, Samuel Courtauld, and H. G. Wells, turned out to be lifelong, with deep and genuine affection. She was an art collector and knew many artists and authors. Who Villiers can be-we can only guess. But could it possibly be Marie-José Villiers, Lady Villiers born in Sussex in 1916, who was a British-born Belgian countess and who worked as a British spy during World War II.? They moved in the same circle of friends and were not too dissimilar in age. In 1988, she too published a book Granny was a Spy , an account of her wartime exploits. A mystery! Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Rex Whistler (illustrateur). First edition. A smart first edition of this charming tale from Aberconway, with colour illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with tipped in colour frontispiece, two tipped in colour plates, and many full-page and in-text images. Collated complete. The author and her family loved when Rex Whistler would come to visit, as each time he would tell a story which he would illustrate with lightning sketches as he spoke. One day, Christabel Aberconway accused Whistler of thinking out his plots beforehand, to which he replied with a suggestion: the next time he came to visit, she would tell the story. Then was born a story they both loved so much that Whistler drew further coloured sketches of his original pieces. After the war, and shortly after Whistler's death, Aberconway arranged to publish the work to delight a larger audience. Written by Christabel Aberconway, a British writer and art collector. Illustrated by Rex Whistler, a British artist known for his murals and society portraits. In the original quarter red cloth binding with green cloth boards. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light shelf wear and the odd small mark to the board. Minor sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. rex whistler (illustrateur). 3 titles , the story of mr korah, 1954, hardback, pub by joseph, illustdby whistler, orig grey cloth with red cloth spine, vg clean tight copy in dustwrapper which has couple of minor marks and is price clipped , book is inscribed on the front end paper, 'cornelia with love from richard christmas 1958, 6 carlton mews s.w.1.' comes with mr. korah and the monster by whistler and aberconway, card covers vg clean tight copy . tipped in illustrations,signed and inscribed by aberconway on the front inside cover ' for cornelia with my love, christabel aberconway 4th june 1963' comes with two soho tapestries or the story of the three brothers , paperback, oblong 8vo, by christabel aberconway, unpaginated,no publisher stated presumably published by aberconway, hard to find , in vg condition and is illustrated, images can be supplied of course. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Very Good clothbound hardcover with a bump to the edge of one board and otherwise only light signs of handling/shelving/age in a Very Good dust jacket with tanning to the spine, a small chip to the crown, and light soiling. A very nice copy. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The story of Mr. Korah and how he is taken captive by an octopus and how he escapes. The tale--based on the Old Testament story of Korah, Datham, and Abiram--was told by Lady Aberconway to Whistler as he sketched scenes. He liked the story so much that he began full-color illustrations but only finished three before being killed during World War II. The book presents those three color illustrations with the sketches he produced initially. Written by Christabel Aberconway; illustrated by Rex Whistler. SIGNED BY ABERCONWAY on the ffep, inscribed as a Christmas gift, and dated in the year of publication. Unpaginated [42 pages]; 3 tipped-in color plates + 14 full-page b&w illustrations and 2 text illustrations; 7.5 x 10 inches.

Soft cover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Soft cover with green/blue paper boards which have roughened edges and a single small stain on front. Six tipped in plates beautifully drawn included one folded. Across title page is written 'for Sarah who is amused by "little nonsenses" even as I am, and with love from Christabel A, August 66. A lovely illustrated slim book which is undated and fine inside with still good covers. Signed by Author(s).

Illustrated by Rex Whistler with full page mounted colour plates, and black and white illustrations. 2 vols. 4to., boards and dust jacket and printed wrappers. London, Michael Joseph. With a couple of very small stains to the dust jacket of The Story of Mr. Korah, otherwise fine copies. .