Ayrton michael illus (13 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Fine copy in slipcase. reprint. 4to, 184 pp., Sandglass newsletter laid-in. Translated by Philip Vellacott. Illus. by Michael Ayrton (illustrator).

Blue hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition with rubbed and torn dust jacket. 180mm x 120mm (7" x 5"). 90pp.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date is suggested. Physical description: 125 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Agriculturists ; Biography; Agriculturists Great Britain; Soil fertility ; Biography; Soil fertility. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Date is suggested. Physical description: 125 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Agriculturists ; Biography; Agriculturists Great Britain; Soil fertility ; Biography; Soil fertility. 1 Kg.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Complete. Ariel Poem was a series originally commissioned by T S Elliot with a number of aims: to publish an unpublished poem by a major poet with commissioned artwork from a leading artist, with a Christmas theme. These were intended to be an alternative to Christmas cards. However, these pamphlets, with the contents sewn, are still utterly charming and really rather lovely. This edition is from Louis Macneice. The covers have wear, and the thread is broken. The pages have evidence of contented use. The pages though are benign, clean and clear and sure. The coloured painting by Michael Ayrton is dramatic and visceral. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good, slightly edge-bumped and dust-stained dust-wrapper. Light foxing. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents; Fairies and brownies -- Stones and trees -- Penance and retribution -- Tradition, superstition, and fact -- Some oddities. Subjects; Legends England. Folklore England. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Some light foxing to prelims. Not price-clipped. Remains well-preserved overall. Publication year suggested. Physical description; 125 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents; Includes biographies on: Fitzherbert of Norbury, Thomas Tusser, Walter Bligh, Gervase Markham, John Houghton, J. Mortimer, Jethro Tull, Charles Townshend, Arthur Young, the Dukes of Bedford, Coke of Norfolk, Sir Humphry Davy, the Drainers, John Joseph Mechi, Knight of Exmoor, Justus von Liebig, Wren Hoskyns, Sir John Bennet Lawes, Sir Henry Gilbert, Dr. Augustus Voelcker, Robert H. Elliot, Dr. Robert Warington. Subjects; Agriculturists Great Britain Biography. Soil fertility Biography. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good, slightly edge-bumped and dust-stained dust-wrapper. Light foxing. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; 148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents; Fairies and brownies -- Stones and trees -- Penance and retribution -- Tradition, superstition, and fact -- Some oddities. Subjects; Legends England. Folklore England. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 280 pages; Description: 280 p. Illus. 23 cm. Subjects: Beds in literature. Notes: Verse and prose. Impressively illustrated. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 280 pages; Description: 280 p. Illus. 23 cm. Subjects: Beds in literature. Notes: Verse and prose. Impressively illustrated. 1 Kg. …

Zustand: Very Good. Quarto (larger format). Fully-bound in richly coloured leather. Raised bands and gilt lettering on spine; Gold decoration on spine and boards. Silk moire endpapers, silk sewn-in bookmark and all edges gilt.

First edition of this illustrated short story collection, compiling tales of the supernatural across urban landscapes, battlefields, and the countryside. According to the author, "for the most part they are stories heard at first hand, or stories sent to me in reply to letters I wrote to many provincial newsletters" (p. 2). Octavo. Illustrated frontispiece, 9 full-page line drawings by Michael Ayrton. Original black boards, spine lettered and ruled in red. With dust jacket by Michael Ayrton. Date stamp on front free endpaper. Spine cocked, extremities rubbed, edges faintly foxed; jacket rubbed, a few shallow chips, tape repairs and foxing to verso, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.…

Ayrton produced one of his "fine book covers" (Horne, p. 83) for the Faber & Faber paperback edition of The Lord of the Flies in 1973. In contrast with the original boys cavorting on a sunny tropical island, Ayrton chose to concentrate on the nightmare of the pig's head from chapter eight ("Gift for the Darkness"). This is a study for that design. Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) enjoyed a varied career, including theatre design (Gielgud's Macbeth in 1942), sculpture (with Henry Moore as his mentor), and writing. "He was one of the most cerebral and literary figures ever to have worked in Britain and his performances as writer and artist are of roughly equal stature" (Horne, p. 83). "Faber initially marketed Golding's novel as a guileless supplement to [the] tradition [of The Coral Island]. On the cover for the first edition the boys explore a tropical forest of fronds and creepers that is not at all threatening. Gradually, successive editions came clean about the book's diabolism. In Michael Ayrton's 1974 [sic] design, the head of the sacrificed beast suggests a slavering werewolf on to which a pig's snout has been grafted" (Conrad). Peter Conrad, "Lord of the Flies: can you judge a book by its cover?", The Guardian, 17 September 2011; Alan Horne, Dictionary of 20th Century British Book Illustrators, 1994. Original drawing (195 x 122 mm) on wove paper (254 x 276 mm). Drawn in ink, watercolour, and crayon, unsigned. Mounted, framed and glazed (framed size: 381 x 302 mm). Trace of toning to paper, but fine and unfaded.…