edward lear brian reade (7 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Edward Lear (illustrateur). 1st Edition. Very good book, dw has tear (untidy repair) Illustrated see photos.

Duckworth. London. 1949. First edition thus. Tall slim 8vo hardback in DW. 12 stunning coloured reproductions. Boards and wrapper very browned and foxed, wrapper worn to edges otherwise clean and sound.

Cloth-backed boards. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Slightly worn and foxed. Edward Lear (illustrateur). First Edition thus. Illustrated with 12 colour plates, tall octavo, pp 32, endpapers age-toned, otherwise very clean and sound internally, cloth-backed boards very good, in a dustwrapper which is age-toned, slightly foxed, and slightly worn.

First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original printed paper covered boards, navy cloth spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 32 pp with 12 splendid full-page colour illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to the boards and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Small colour book plate opposite the title page with the printed name 'William C. Pelster' illustrating a Yellow-naped amazon parrot drawn for Mr Pelster by William T. Cooper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ORNITHOLOGY.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). Tall 8vo. 32pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards. Free endpapers lightly browned. A very good copy in lightly spotted, rubbed and creased price-clipped dust wrapper. Brian Reade's definitive essay on Lear's early efforts as a bird illustrator, accompanied by twelve coloured lithographs (selected from the original folio of forty-two lithographs, published at the artists' own expense in 1932).

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Reprint. Number 420 of just 500 such copies; publisher's dark red half Morocco binding, gilt titles to spine and top edge gilt, in better than very good shape, firm and square with strong joints, no cracks, no defects, just mildly rubbed. Contents crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Includes 42 full colour parrot plates and a loosely inserted booklet by Brian Reade: 'An Essay on Edward Lear's Illustrations'. Size: Folio (545mm x 360mm). Thus a very tidy and presentable book.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Reprint edition of the 1832 publication, including a 15 page essay by Brian Reade on the illustrations as an insert. (10) pp. + 42 color plates on heavy paper, elephant folio, 1/2 morocco, cloth, gilt -stamped raised bands, limited to 500 numbered copies of which this is #428. Overall good to very good condition. Shipping outside the United States may incur higher shipping charges. Inventory #25419-2.