ship sailed mars fantasy de william timlin (14 résultats)

Etat : Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. Dust Jacket in nice shape with light shelf wear, pages clean and binding tight.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : very good. A very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Very light edgewear to dust jacket. No markings.

hardcover. Etat : LikeNew. Text block, pages, boards and binding are pristine, dust wrapper is like new. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

hardcover. Etat : VeryGood. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing/chipping to price clipped dust wrapper edges. Very clean, very nice example. Kind note written on title page by previous owner. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Hardcover. Etat : new. Excellent Condition.Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Vellum spine. 48 mounted colour plates, all in excellent order. Covers have very slight rubbing.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition; of the 2000 copies printed by George Harrup, here is one of 250 that were released in the US by Frederick Stokes Publishers gray paper over white vellum quarter boards, intricately decorated in gilt on spine and titled in dark gray on cover in gray paper dust jacket that is decorated and lettered in dark gray on cover and spine, gray end pages. This large (approx. 12 1/4" X 9 1/2") folio edition is comprised of 96 heavy gray paper pages mounted with 48 watercolor illustrations and 48 hand written text plates all by the author. The numbered calligraphy styled text pages are printed and decorated in black, blue and green. Dust jacket states "made in Great Britain" on verso. Now preserved in a beautiful clamshell with burgundy cloth under red leather quarter boards with ribbed and gilt spine and suede lined interior. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company (1923), 96 pages. A fine copy with bright gilt spine, tiny loss of paper at one tip, toned front and rear free end pages. Nearly fine mylar protected dust jacket has tape repaired 1 1/4" tear at top edge, and some sun fading to spine, modest wear along edges and flap folds.

First American edition. First American edition. Illustrated title and 48 tipped in colored plates by the author. 1 vols. Lg. 4to. One of the most beautiful illustrated books of the 1920s, with Timlin's fabulous illustrations and his dreamy-like text. Decorated text and illustrations all tipped onto larger grey sheets, as issued. Original parchment gilt-backed grey boards. Spine worn with some losses, internally clean and sound. Good plus, without the rare dust jacket Illustrated title and 48 tipped in colored plates by the author. 1 vols. Lg. 4to.

[Children's Fantasy] FIRST US EDITION. Quarto (31 x 24cm). 48 pages of text, and 48 colour plates illustrated by the author, all mounted on thick grey leaves. Publisher's quarter vellum with elaborate gilt titles and decoration to spine, and grey paper-covered boards titled to upper. With the grey dust-jacket, printed in brown to spine and dark grey to upper. Toning and light spotting to edges and endpapers, and very light spotting to first few leaves. Hinges delicate but intact, otherwise binding clean. Jacket shows chipping to edges, including a large loss to head of spine, with split and brittle joints, but shows very well. Very good. William Mitcheson Timlin was born in Northumberland, England, and studied art in Newcastle before following his parents to South Africa, where he completed his studies in art and architecture. He then practised as an architect, designing a number of major public buildings in Kimberley. At the same time he worked as an artist, producing paintings, etchings and pastels of conventional subjects, in addition to the watercolour fantasies for which is he best known. He also wrote stories and music, and did periodical illustrations. In 1923 he published 'The Ship that Sailed to Mars', which has become a fantasy classic.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Poor. First Edition. Color Illustrations; Publisher's vellum-backed boards, gilt-lettered spine, tattered dust jacket front and back panels laid in. 12 x 9 inches (30.5 x 23 cm). Complete with 48 text leaves printed in blue, green, and black and 48 color plates, a few with relatively light foxing, each mounted on gray card. Spine darkened and nicked, corners worn and boards rubbed with a short tear to paper of lower board, endpapers stained with contemporary ownership signature. Sumptuously illustrated. Binding solid. Text and plates attractive. Original unsophisticated binding. Withal a book in Good or better condtion.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. "The Ship That Sailed To Mars : A Fantasy" by William M. Timlin. George Harrap, London. 1923 first UK edition. 48 colour plates and 48 leaves of text all recto mounted on grey paper, a few minor spots at front, original vellum-backed boards, paper label to upper cover (small areas of wear to board edges), 4to. Part of the front panel of the dust jacket has been pasted on to the front cover, obscuring the printed title, the endpapers are also sometime renewed. The most original and beautiful children's book of the 1920s was William M. Timlin's masterpiece The Ship That Sailed to Mars. a magical combination of science fiction and fairyland" (Richard Dalby, The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration, 1991, pp. 102-03). Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, II p. 109 ("Fantasy with its roots in the fairy tale, describing the building of a space-flying sailing ship, its voyage to Mars and the monsters encountered en route This unique book, highly sought-after by collectors of fantasy, illustrated books and South Africana").

First edition, 4to., 48 mounted pages of calligraphic text, 48 mounted colour plates, publisher's vellum-backed boards, spine elaborately decorated in gilt; foxing to title and dedication pages, and, lightly, to first text leaf, foxing and toning to endpapers, occasional foxing within, particularly at inner margins, very slight rubbing and minor darkening to head and tail of spine, paper worn at corners of boards, but spine quite bright with clear gilt decoration, overall about very good, in a rather worn and heavily repaired dust-jacket with archival tape to reverse, which has creasing, closed tears and minor loss to extremities, as well as some marking to the paper (splash-marking to front of jacket), but largely complete and now in protective cover. (Please see photographs).

4to. Or.quarter vellum with grey printed paper sides, the spine heavily ornamented. 48 tipped-in full-page colour plates. 48 tipped-in printed pages of calligraphic lettering in the author's hand, mounted on grey paper. Sl.foxing to endpapers and sl.wear to corners else a very good copy of a rare illustrated book, the only published work by this author and artist. 2,000 copies were printed but.