Eric kennington illustrator (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth over boards with gold lettering down the spine. Cloth has general fading and wear along the edges, but remains otherwise neat and tidy. Corners are bumped. Binding is tight and secure. Previous owner inscription on the FFEP. Pages are evenly toned throughout, but otherwise crisp and clean. 19, full color plates illustrated by Eric Kennington all in excellent condition. 47 pages. George G. Harrap & Company. No publication date on the title page. Copyright page is dated 1945. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it is a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 712 pages. 5.50x1.69x8.50 inches. In Stock. Kennington, Eric (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. An Ex-Library Hardback without dust jacket. Officially withdrawn with usual library stamps and markings. Published in 1932 by Pharos, London. Light wear to boards with some tanning/handling marks to pages otherwise a clean, sound copy. All 8 illustrations intact, clean & free from markings. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 3F*. …

Inscribed by the author to second blank: 'Christine, Michael + Boris / with love from Naomi'. The 'Haldane polymath' Naomi Mitchison CBE (1897-1999) was a prolific Scottish author and activist, with links to Fabian, Labour and Scottish Nationalist movements. Hailing from a family of privilege and pre-eminent scientists, she is best known for The Corn King and the Spring Queen (1931), celebrated both as a key work in Scottish magical realism and as a significant contribution to twentieth century historical fiction. A talented author who wrote across many genres and forms, she was also a good friend of J.R.R. Tolkien and one of the proof readers of The Lord of the Rings. First edition, inscribed by the author; 8vo; 7 coloured plates on thick coloured paper by Eric Kennington, slight age-toning to leaves, otherwise unmarked internally, 'First Pharos Editions' list tipped in; publisher's orange cloth, blue lettering to spine and upper cover, pictorial endpapers, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, somewhat toned, loss to top edge of front panel (affecting title), slight loss to head and foot of spine; very good overall.…