davis margo gregson (8 Ergebnisse)

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 141 pages. One of only 5000 copies. Features text by Gregson Davis. Includes photographs by Margo Davis. A very good copy in wrappers with a small spot to the front panel and some other minor wear. Internally a clean copy of this attractive book.

hardcover. Zustand: very good. DAVIS, Margo (illustrator). Illustrated mostly in black and white. 141 pages. Thin 4to, brown pictorial cloth (some white scratches and scuffs on front and back covers). San Francisco: Scrimshaw Press, 1969. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated (black & white, and color). Fine (some foxing to end pages) in a very good dust jacket (several small tears, a gouge lower rear center, small black spot on front cover; in Mylar). A truly nice copy of this portrait of Antigua.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. A gorgeous portrait of the island and peoples of Antigua, with text by Gregson Davis and illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis, maps and reproductions in color of historic paintings and vintage drawings. As the authors comment, this is a "straightforward view of rural Antigua, of village yards and tilled plots where the descendants of slaves labor with strength and ingenuity to extract a life of dignity and meaning from an eroded landscape of unfullfilled promises and fragmented hopes." While this is centered around the photographs, it also contains much on the history of the island - the sugar plantations, slave uprisings, emancipation and more. Warmly INSCRIBED on the half title page by both the author and photographer, and dated in the year of publication. A beautifully produced large folio, one of an edition of only 5000 copies - 141 pp plus colophon and final photograph. Very near fine in brown cloth with a photographic inset on the front cover, in a good dust jacket (rubbing, small chip at top of dj spine).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition. San Francisco, Scrimshaw Press, 1973. Large quarto, 143 pages with 2 maps and numerous full-page illustrations from photographs (a few in colour) by Margo Davis. Cloth (with an illustration mounted on the front cover) a little mottled; gift inscription on the front free endpaper; a very good copy with the near-fine dustwrapper.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original charcoal grey cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine, inset pictorial onlay to the front cover, duplicated to the front of the dust wrapper. 4to. 12½'' x 10¼''. Contains 142 printed pages with antique double-page map monochrome illustrations and stunning full-page photographs throughout. Small ink name to the top of the front free end paper. Fine condition book in near Fine condition dust wrapper with small nick to the top front gutter, not price clipped, $27.50. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 091202030X WEST INDIES [Caribbean].

Hardcover. Zustand: very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. Margo Davis (illustrator). First Edition. 141p, quarto. Illustrated. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Bumped at crown. Jacket has chips and closed tears along spine. Inscribed by Gregson and Margo Davis to previous owners on half title page, "For Betty and Burt: May you continue to flourish transplanted on new soil. from Gregor and Margo in Feb 1976.".

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Edition. 143p quarto, illustrated with photographs by Margo Davis. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket signed by the author on the half title. Laid in is a short T.L.S.(typed letter sgn) from the author to a bookseller acknowledging that he has signed the books and is shipping them out. Gregson born on the Island of Antigua went to Harvard and taught classics at Stanford , Cornell and Duke.