illustrations hubert williams (2 Ergebnisse)

Hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated paper covered boards, yellow cloth spine, two radial corners. Oblong. 5½'' x 7¼''. Contains four thick boards with large colour illustration to each and to the paste downs with simple story line below. Small price ticket removed from the rear cover, the bus illustration has also been coloured-in. Member of the P.B.F.A. CHILDREN'S & JUVENILE.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. With a dust jacket design by Cecil Beaton. Illustrations by Hubert Williams. (illustrator). 1926. First edition. Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd. London. 1926. First edition. Hardback, octavo; brown paper-covered boards with star pattern, backed with brown cloth and title in gilt, dust jacket with dollar price printed to spine. viii, 222 pages. Frontispiece and numerous text illustrations. English. 200x150mm. 0.55kg. Very good, in good dust jacket; some wear to jacket, light rubbing to edges, forecorners and spine ends, short tear to lower edge of rear panel, a couple of small areas of loss to base of spine and lower edge of rear panel, edges reinforced with tape to verso, small abrasions to surface of front panel, some fading to spine; slight dustiness to top edge. The first dust jacket design by Cecil Beaton, created when he was 22 and struggling to escape office life. The President's Hat is a fictional travelogue describing the walking tour of two young men to view the President's hat in Andorra. It is the first book by his Cambridge friend Billy Williams (writing as Robert Herring). The jacket's illustration uses some of Beaton's earliest artistic motifs, including theatrical swags, a glass cloche, and handwritten text. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.