garnett ray (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, mild shelfwear. 64 pages. Oblong, oversize. Statements and reminiscences by artists and musicians about classic rock 'n' roll album covers. Heavy book: priority or international shipping may be extra. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Design of title-page by Ray Garnett (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hbk, viii, 278 pages, 1 leaf 20 cm. First edition. Some foxing to edges o/w a clean unmarked copy in very good condition. Contents : The white paternoster -- A box of sweets -- Old men -- Archdeacon Truggin -- The baked mole -- Another Godiva -- Parson Sparrow -- Christ in the cupboard -- The golden gates -- Mr. Dottery's trousers -- The rival pastors -- Mr. Guppy's garden -- Found wanting -- The bride -- Feed my swine -- A pretty babe -- Mrs. Hockey's cross -- What lack I yet? -- Squire Pooley -- The hunted beast -- Mr. Handy's wife -- Aunt Julia -- The barometer -- Mr. Troller's new clothes -- A Christmas gift -- Gold. g1090 / m16193.

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).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Ray (Rachael) Garnett (illustrator). 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.

Zustand: 3. Garnett, Ray A. (illustrator). BROCHE.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Ray Garnett [Frontispiece] (illustrator). First Edition. Very good book in purple and black patterned buckram covers with titles in black to a paper label on spine. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; woodcut portrait as frontispiece; binding tight; some foxing spots to prelims but hardly any elsewhere; top edges gilt others semi-trimmed; spare title label to rear. The dust jacket is very good-;; price clipped; spine tanned; 163pp + 4pp adverts.

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

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Ray Garnett (illustrator). 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. book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Ray Garnett (illustrator). A limited edition copy of Theodore Powys' short story collection 'The White Paternoster'. A limited edition work, of which three hundred and ten copies were printed, three hundred being for sale. This copy is numbered thirty-eight. Signed by the author to the edition page. A collection of short stories by T. F. Powys. Containing 'The White Paternoster', 'A Box of Sweets', 'The Golden Gates', 'Mr Guppy's Garden', 'A Pretty Babe', 'The Hunted Beast', and more. Written by Theodore Francis Powys. Powys was a short-story writer and novelist, who is best known for his novel 'Mr Weston's Good Wine'. Powys was deeply religious, and was heavily influenced by the Bible. With an illustration to the title page by Ray Garnett. Bookplate to the front pastedown, 'B. R. Overbury'. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding with patterned paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A little discolouration to the spine and to the head of the front joint. Some light bumping to the extremities. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second edition, 62, (1) pp., bound in half cloth with pictorial boards. Wear on boards, age toning, few spots. Inside very good, one tear (3 cm) restored. Over all a good to very good copy of a scarce book. With illustrated endpapers, many framed illustrations in colour and illustrations and text in greyish light-brown. 23 x 18 cm. Ray (Rachel Alice) Garnett-Marshall (1891-1940) was the first wife of David Garnett and the sister of Frances Partridge (Bloomsbury-connection).

Five vintage photographs from the 1935 film, including three double-weight reference photographs (one on-the-set) and two test Photographs Photographers, one of Joan Bennett and one of Billie Burke. All five photographs with a studio stamp crediting photographer Ray Jones on the versos, and four with mimeo snipes on the same. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. A wealthy patriarch is continuously irritated and dismayed by his family's outrageous behavior. After winding up in prison for tax evasion, he befriends his cellmate, a bootlegger and fellow tax evader, whom he names as executor of his estate upon his release. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine overall, one with light creasing and edgewear.