Garnett david ray (8 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Garnett, Ray A. (illustrator).

1st edn. 8vo. Original mottled red cloth with spine label, top edge gilt (a little faded at edges of boards - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. 162, illus with b&w frontispiece by Ray Garnett (previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down and neat inscription on front free endpaper; fore-edge lightly spotted).…

hardback, 8vo, 94pp, woodcut illustrations by Ray Garnett, owner's bookplate and name on endpapers, moderate foxing throughout, text clean and sound, purple mottled boards, spine title label rubbed (no spare) Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. With six black and white woodcuts: four full-page wood-cuts in the text and the smaller title-page and end-piece (as called for) by the illustrator Ray (Rachael) Garnett - Richard Garnett's wife.***Near fine in mock-marbled dark red and black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles and decorative gilt borders to spine. Top edge of text-block gilt, and bottom edge of text-block uncut (rough-cut, untrimmed, as called for). Contemporaneous tiny dark blue and gilt 'The Times Bookclub, 42 Wigmore Street, London W.1' label to bottom of rear pastedown. Unobtrusive tiny ink no's '6 31' unobtrusive to bottom of last page opposite rear pastedwon. No inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. Spine tight. ***In a very good beige and red wood-cut illustrated and bordered dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 5 shillings net. Very small chip to top edge of rear panel of dustwrapper. Spine of dustwrapper darkened. Red titles to spine slightly dulled. Tiny 2mm closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Head and tail of spine slightly creased and rubbed. Edges of dustwrapper very slightly rubbed and creased. Tiny loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Front and rear panels and large inner flaps of the dustwrapper bright and well-preserved. ***101 pages. 196mm x 130 mm. ***'Mr Garnett finds an original subject for his latest story in the experiences of two men and a woman engaged on a record-breaking long distance air trip. They crash, and the pilot, whose leg is injured, is left alone, with little food, in a desert place. His feelings, adventures and sufferings there are described with precision and detail, and with extraordinary insight into the mind of a man who is at once brave and commonplace. Once again Mr. Garnett displays the versatility of his talent and the charm of his narrative style.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). David Garnett's wife, whose woodcuts appear in some of his books including The Grasshoppers Come, was the illustrator Rachel (Ray) Marshall (1891-1940), sister of the translator and diarist Frances Partridge. David Garnett was a member of the artistic and literary Bloomsbury group. ***First impression of the true first edition, hard to find complete in its original 1931 dustwrapper in such nice clean collectable condition. ***Of interest to collectors of David Garnett and early twentieth century literary first edition's and first editions of the Bloomsbury group, and also of the illustrations by Ray (Rachael) Garnett. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Ray (Rachael) Garnett (illustrator).…

BROCHE. Garnett, Ray A. (illustrator).

Zustand: Bon. Merci, votre achat aide à financer des programmes de lutte contre l'illettrisme. Garnett, Ray A. (illustrator).

Zustand: Assez bon. Attention: Ancien support de bibliothèque, plastifié, étiquettes. Merci, votre achat aide à financer des programmes de lutte contre l'illettrisme. Garnett, Ray A. (illustrator).

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. The first editions of two early works by the English writer David Garnett with illustrations by his wife Ray Garnett. First edition of A Man in the Zoo (1924) and The Sailor's Return (1925) by David Garnett in the original publisher's cloth bindings.Lacking the dust wrappers.Early novels by the author. Garnett was an award winning English writer and publisher of the twentieth century. He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for 'Lady into Fox' (1922). He was a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group.These works are illustrated with wood engravings by his wife, Ray Garnett. With engravings throughout the text in 'A Man in the Zoo' and with a frontispiece to 'The Sailor's Return'. In the original publisher's cloth bindings. Externally, very smart. There is some bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and to the extremities. There is some wear to the cloth in these areas. The spine labels are slightly faded. The hinges are strained but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean with the occasional spot. Very Good. Ray Garnett (illustrator). book.…