egan beresford (22 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Dated 1958--shows well proportioned nude blonde woman walking over books and manuscript leaves. (5' x 3"). Fine. John Rolph was a Suffolk based second hand bookseller and the bibliographer of Dylan Thomas. In his London years he had known Harrison Marks the Soho erotic publisher.

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Reading copy only. Frontis detached, but present. Bookplate inside. Owner's name on front endpage. (poetry, poems).

Zustand: Good. New York: Privately printed for William Godwin, Inc., 1933. Sm 4to. 142pp. Illus. Good book. Spine ends frayed, joints a bit torn. Owner's name on half title. Pencil markings inside. Lower corner browned in second half of book. (poetry, sex, death) Inquire if you need further information.

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 125, [1]. Frontispiece, decorative title page and numerous illustrations throughout text; full-page drawings pp. [92]-125. Publishers' brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Cover cloth a touch rippled to boards, witha pale stain at head of spine/upper board. Contents clean with no annotation or inscriptions. Collected verse and prose by satirist and artist Beresford Egan (1905-1984), completed towards the end of the Second World War.

Hard Cover. LIMITED EDITION. Number 18 in a limited edition of to 300 copies only. Octavo, pp. xxi, [7], 327, [1] With black and white illustrations by Egan. Publishers' Burnt orange cloth with gilt tooled stylised titles to upper board and spine. Peppermint green endpapers. With illustrated Egan advertisement facsimile stamped and signed by publisher laid in. A Fine copy. Gift inscribed by the publisher to the half title,"#18 is the loveliest number you can attain so you are first out of the [?.]" First novel by Beresford Egan, agent provocateur artist of 1920s London. Egan gravitated towards the scandalous and taboo, illustrating deluxe editions for works of Crowley, De Sade, and Baudillaire. This semi-autobiographical first novel is frequently hailed as a key work of 'deco-decadence' and is punctuated with erotic illustrations in his unmistakable iconic style. Another excellent edition of the decadent and macabre by Side Real Press.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8VO. PP 87, 20 PLATES. Bibliography at rear. Original publisher's white buckram lettered gilt at the spine. Faint browing to eps else near fine in vg d/w with faint creasing at edges.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Paperback Edition. 4to. pp 16. Paperback. Original publisher's dusky pink covers, lettered black. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. No date, [1928]. Some tanning at spine and front edges with slight foxing to endpapers, otherwise sound, close very good with very clean text and plates.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this collection of poetry, prose, and artwork by Beresford Egan. First edition. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece, many in-text drawings, and thirty-four plates. Collated complete. A collection of poetry, prose, and artwork. Written and illustrated by Beresford Egan, a satirical draughtsman, painter, novelist, actor, costume designer and playwright. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities and the odd small mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Beresford Egan (illustrator). First edition. Bright copy of Beresford Egan's charmingly illustrated novel, the first edition. The first edition of this work. Early issue in full cloth binding, the first issue was published in quarter cloth. A bright example of this beautiful work.Novel written and decorated by Beresford Egan, a satirical draughtsman, painter, novelist, actor, &c., well known in the artistic and literary scene of London in the nineteenth century. He is now best remembered as one of the few original British exponents of Art Deco.Three books. Featuring uniform illustrated title page as well as illustrated title page to each book, frontispiece, and further black and white illustrations by the author. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

First trade edition. Publisher's original pink card wrappers with title printed in black. Illustrated with 7 black and white full-page drawings by Beresford Egan. A near very good copy, the binding firm with dust soiling to the covers, wear to the extremities and chipping to the spine. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, foxing to the endpapers and the occasional mark to page margins are otherwise in good order. The drawings remain clean and bright. Percy Reginald Stephensen (1901-1965) was an Australian writer, publisher and political activist, first for the Communists and later for far-right groups. In this satirical work he mocks the Conservative politician Sir William Joynson-Hicks, who was well-known for his authoritarianism, his campaigns against Communism and his attempts to clamp down on nightclubs and what he saw as the indecent literature of the roaring twenties (or, what he termed "the flood of filth coming across the Channel"). Notably, he was heavily implicated in the banning of Radclyffe Hall's lesbian novel, The Well of Loneliness (1928), as well as in forcing the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover in an expurgated version. As D.H. Lawrence was a good friend of Stephensen, this was perhaps part of the reason for the present satire. Egan's drawings, greatly influenced by the work of Aubrey Beardsley and imbued with the spirit of 1920s decadence, provide the perfect riposte to Joynson-Hick's reactionary moralising. Provenance: from the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

The edition of 1600, unnumbered and not signed, with 12 plates, including one in colour, and an illustrated titlepage, all by Beresford Egan. Original orange boards with orange buckram spine. Covers somewhat stained, as are the endpapers, corners very rubbed. Beresford Egan's work was highly influenced by Aubrey Beardsley and many of his illustrations were in an erotic vein. He was for many years an exponents of art déco. His career graph was phenomenal, beginning with The Sink of Solitude, the dazzling debut which was a satire on the banning of Radclyffe Hall's controversial novel The Well Of Loneliness (1928). That book marked the beginning of a prolific phase of around six years during which he created numerous illustrations and book covers for works by Aleister Crowley, Pierre Louÿs and Charles Baudelaire . Book.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Fleurs du Mal in Pattern and Prose, limited edition 423 of 500 signed and numbered by Egan, colour frontispiece, illustrations (many full-page) by Egan and C. Bower Alcock, original paper-covered boards, some small paper loss to extremities, The Sophistocles Press, 1929. Signed by Author.

First edition of this translation by Charles Hope Lumley. Royal octavo. 312 pages. One of 1125 copies on Batchelor hand-made paper, this being unnumbered. Colour illustrations by Beresford Egan. Black buckram-backed paper boards. Laid in is a Fuller d'Arch Smith catalogue of Fortune Press titles. On the front pastedown is a bookplate designed by Beresford Egan of a nude lady in high heels rather worryingly stepping on manuscripts and books.Gilt titles on spine a bit dull. Near fine in near-fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Large Paper Edition, designed by Lewis F. White, privately printed in a Limited Edition of 1499 copies, this being no.681, and apparently signed by Egan on the Limitation page. Liberally illustrated by Egan's in his Art Deco, erotic manner, much in the vein of Aubrey Beardsley. The book was translated by his wife Catherine Bower Alcock, for whom, he also illustrated a number of other works. Measures 11 x 9 ins. Original patterned green faux leather with circular device to upper board, lettering at spine rather faded, light bumping to corner tips, a few spots of soiling to lower board. Preserved in clear, plastic protective sleeve. Orig. yellow endpapers. No old inscriptions. Included are two letters from Bereford EGAN to Adrian Woodhouse refuting the authenticity of the signature in the limitation page. The first letter, dated 21st July 1978, states "The signature to the SYLVAN PRESS copy of Beaudelaire's FLEURS DU MAL, which you showed me last evening, is not mine. It looks to me as though some-body has attempted, not very successfully, to imitate my manner of signing drawings in the 30's and 40's. I should like it on record, here and now, that I have never signed a single copy of the Sylvan Press edition and that at no time have I used the style of signature in question on any BOOK, DOCUMENT, or LETTER", signed by Egan in black ink in his bold, flamboyant hand. The second letter, from his address in Elm Park Mansions, Park Walk, Chelsea, London SW10, gives his unequivocal view of the Sylvan Press edition, "What a lamentable production it is! I would rather sign my death warrant than that infernal thing". Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. First Egan illustrated limited edition, #157 of 500 copies signed by Beresford Egan, demy 4to (11.5 x 9.25 inches), pp. (1-6). 7-142, (2) printer's device of the Chiswick Press, London, color frontispiece "Imaginary Portrait of Beaudelaire" and 15 b/w plates, engraved initial letters and tailpieces. Original suede textured green tones and brown swirl patterned cloth with original printed lettering piece and printed label on the upper side. Very good+ clean cloth with wear to spine ends and corners. Sheets and plates in fine clean, unmarked, complete condition. H10700 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. First edition, Ex-library book with stamps/ stickers.

Indian ink on paper. Measuring 12.5 x 8.5 inches. Signed and dated '51 in the image and further inscribed on the reverse of mount "Reporting For Duty". In fine condition A prolific illustrator, Beresford Egan is remembered as one of the few original British exponents of Art Deco and for nearly five decades was one of the most famous people of London's bohemian scene. His art was highly influenced by Aubrey Beardsley and many of his illustrations were, as here in an erotic vein. Egan's artwork for Aleister Crowley's Moonchild (Mandrake Press, 1929) is a notable highlight of dustwrapper illustration. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

leather_bound. Egan, Beresford (illustrator). First edition. Seven leaves of text, "In Defence Of Sadism" by Drian De Shane. 30 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 38 of 100 signed by Beresford and De Shane, and includes the suppressed plate "The Moralist." Beresford's art was highly influenced by Aubrey Beardsley, and his erotic images reflect that. Although London born he spent time in South Africa. and served as a cartoonist for the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg. He was one of the few original British exponents of Art Deco. With Barry Moser bookplate, and additional one front cover paste down. Spine slightly darkened. Orig. brown niger, gilt lettered front cover and spine. Near fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The sole UK printing published by The Fortune Press, London in 1948 (nd). The BOOK is in Very Good++ condition with just a little fading at the lower edges of the boards due to possible water staining. This has not seeped through internally. Light toning to the text-block. The very scarce WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition with a little toning to the spine and some mild age related markings. The wrapper looks striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been inscribed by the author in his characteristic calligraphic writing to the front blank end-paper : 'To Frank Pettigel, in memory of his exquisite characterisation of O.F.O.W. Wilde at the Boltons Theatre Club in 1948, from Beresford Egan'. 'O.F.O.W. Wilde' refers to Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) Wilde's full name. The 'Bolton's Theatre Club' in London opened in 1947 and by operating as a club where membership was obligatory, was able to stage plays which might otherwise be prohibited under the Theatres Act 1843. The Play 'Oscar Wilde' which Egan was referring to was 'a 1936 play written by Leslie and Sewell Stokes. It is based on the life of the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in which Wilde's friend, the controversial author and journalist Frank Harris, appears as a character. The play, which contains much of Wilde's actual writings, starts with Wilde's literary success and his friendship with Lord Alfred Douglas, turns into a courtroom melodrama, and ends with Wilde as a broken alcoholic after two years in prison. Owing to the play's subject matter it was never granted a licence by the Lord Chamberlain and could, therefore, only be staged in England at a theatre club where membership was required. The play's first production at London's Gate Theatre Studio in 1936 starred Robert Morley as Wilde and was produced by Norman Marshall. The play was revived again at the Bolton's Theatre Club, starring Frank Pettingell and directed by Leslie Stokes, in 1948.', (Wiki). The book itself, is a collection of poetry and prose written and profusely illustrated by the satirical artist and author Beresford Egan. A very interesting association copy and very scarce with such attributes. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, 8vo, xii, 312 pp. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations by the author, later bookplate. Original orange cloth, corners bumped, mild rubbing to spine ends.

First edition, first impression, in the scarce dust jacket, number 80 of 1,275 copies; the first 75 copies were printed on heavy unbleached handmade paper, with the rest printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. Pierre Louÿs, known for his erotic, lesbian, and classical themes, wrote these decadent sketches under the guise of translating the works of Lucian; Louÿs foreword, in which he outlines the circumstances surrounding his "translation" and Lucian's historical contexts, lends credence to this premise. The Deco artist Beresford Egan was a prolific illustrator of erotic works, and Louÿs's "highly conflicted and ambivalent sexual politics clearly serve[d] as a highly useful framework for understanding Egan's brand of post-Victorian Decadent eroticism" (Mahoney, p. 182). The Fortune Press specialized in gay erotica, and was founded by Reginald Caton in 1924; a decade later, Caton was prosecuted and found guilty for publishing obscene works. Kristin Mahoney, Literature and the Politics of Post-Victorian Decadence, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015. Octavo. Original blue quarter cloth, marbled sides, spine lettered in gilt, edges untrimmed. With illustrated dust jacket. With 6 full-page black and white illustrations by Beresford Egan. A near-fine, sharp copy, very light offsetting to rear pastedown, contents clean, in a well-preserved example of the scarce dust jacket, spine panel toned, ends chipped, couple of nicks to extremities, short closed tear to foot of rear panel, some light marks and soiling, front panel illustration bright.

EGAN, Beresford and Brian de Shane. DE SADE. Being a series of wounds, inflicted with brush and pen, upon Sadistic Wolves garbed in Masochist's Wool. Published for the first time by The Fortune Press, London [n.d., c. 1930]. Limited edition, 1/1600 copies. 4to., plum cloth, lettered in gilt, illustrated in a decadent style. Ink ownership; ex-library, no external marks. Cloth faded from sun, especially at spine and edges; touch of wear to heel. Internally, clean and tight, with a slight nick to one fore-edge. A fourteen page essay with seventeen illustrations. A very good copy.