gaselee john (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1967. First Edition. 159 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over black and white chambray pattered cloth boards with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear. Clipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking. Price sticker to flap and panel.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New. In.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New.

Card folded once to form 4pp c. 18.5 x 11 cms, with decorative front cover. And with loosely inserted grey card c. 15.5 x 10 cms printed with John Carter's address and with Double Crown Club initials DCC all in blue. Both items in fine condition. About 60 copies only designed by John Carter and printed by the Shenval Press. Stephen Gaselee gave a talk on The Printing Of Menus. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 137-184. Features: Insurance Pitfalls; Here's our Taxi Now - Tiny's Radio Taxis operating in Southend use a 100% Vauxhall fleet; No Sooner Said Than Done - new computer equipment put to use by the company (wow, the computer is huge!); Brakes - a detailed two-page illustrated article of how they work; Requiem for old Roads; Stand by to Cast Off - a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads; Die Romantische Strasee - the 200 mile romantic road in Germany; Alan Briton's Views - on such things as the new two-lane bridge over the River Medway on M2; Steering - how to avoid trouble; Don't Throw a Tantrum - how to avoid road rage; Nice Velox ad inside back cover; Many pages of great vintage ads. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound vintage copy.

FIRST EDITION, a full-page illustration by John Mavrogordato (see below) preceding each of the nine stories, pp. [viii], 85, 4to, bound for the author by J.P. Gray & Son, Cambridge, in half brown morocco with blue marbled boards, lettered in gilt to backstrip, gilt rules, a little rubbed and worn, the boards close to detached, t.e.g., some browning to edges from leather, sound. A scarce book, this the author's own copy; a selection of stories encountered by Gaselee, whilst Pepys Librarian at Magdalene College (also engaged on war-work at the Foreign Office) and cataloguing the Coptic manuscripts at Cambridge University Library, with charming illustrations by his Eton contemporary (and fellow King's Scholar) John Mavrogordato. Gaselee had attended King's College, Cambridge; Mavrogordato went up to Exeter College, Oxford and was later the University's Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature.