Illustrator john austen (20 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Literature, Fiction, DRama) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Black cloth, gilt lettering and decorations. Fading to spine. Some rubbing/bumping to edges of boards. A little slack to binding, but everything intact, nothing loose. Illustrated endpapers, with 16 beautiful woodcuts by John Austen. Interior clean and unmarked, no spotting or foxing. Pictures forthcoming, feel free to ask.…

Hardcover. Octavo, xi, 408 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is brown with black print. Dust jacket has edgewear with small tears at spine ends and flap corners, toning to spine. Boards in white cloth with gold print. Light wear to spine caps and corners, toning to spine, cocked spine, light shelf wear. Text block has deckle edges, tanning to endpapers, large owner stamp on front endpapers, light foxing to paper throughout. Frontispiece and "With 93 illustrations & decorations" (b&w). 1372198. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Zustand: Like New. 2nd Easton Press Printing (2013) LIKE NEW! Leatherbound. No marks nor noticeable imperfections. Appears unread. xv, 549 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. . . . . . . . Usual Easton Press features: Full genuine burgundy leather with four raised hubbed bands, 22kt gold gilt stamping, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, a satin ribbon marker, acid-neutral archival paper, and Smyth-sewn binding in an octavo format. . . . . . . . Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. Blackmore is an 1869 historical romance set on wild 17th-century Exmoor during the era of Monmouth?s Rebellion. Narrated by the yeoman farmer John ?Jan? Ridd, it follows his father?s murder by the outlaw Doone clan, his secret love for the beautiful Lorna (raised among them but later revealed as a kidnapped noble heiress), political intrigue, the destruction of the Doones, a wedding-day shooting by the villainous Carver Doone, and a hard-won happy ending. The novel is prized for its vivid Exmoor landscapes, rural life, and West Country dialect. The Easton Press edition, first issued in 1971 and reprinted around 2013, is a deluxe leather-bound collector?s reprint of the 1943 Heritage Press version illustrated by John Austen with an introduction by John T. Winterich.…

Hardcover. dj. Limited Edition #214/1500. Large Octavos, 2 Volumes. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus dust jackets. Housed in publisher's heavily worn and splitting slip case. Spines sunned tan with black lettering. Rubbing with mild tearing along edges of dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to boards. Fading to dye on top edges of textblock. Light age toning throughout interior. Signed by Austen and enumerated on colophon. Shelved in LECs. 1417401. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Signed.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Acceptable hardcover, no dustcover. The text is unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbings/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear. Hinges cracked but binding still intact. This edition is limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 64.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day. …

Hardcover. 200 pages. 25 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 219 of 250. Twelve color lithographs and a host of black and white text illustrations by Austen. Traditionally ascribed to the Greek sophist, Longus who lived in the second or third century A.D. Backstrip darkened, scattered spotting to text, owner inscriptions inside front and back covers. Orig. decorated white cloth. Teg. Very good. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good copy in hardcover with very good jacket. Name on endpaper and title page. Faint toning to edges of endpapers. Jacket has some faint spotting to front cover, small chip from bottom edge of front cover and small chip from top edge of front cover. Now in mylar.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition Is Us. Hardback. Tall 8vo.pp. 202. (pp 8 unpaginated.) Original publishers cloth binding in black, lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and front cover. Fine, decorative illustrations by John Austen:18 striking colour plates influenced by Art Deco style with a tight and stylish palette of black and blue picked out with glinting metallic gold. Small in-line b&w illustrations also by John Austin, including decorative endpapers in blue. Neat name on front blank. Uncommon. Loosely inserted original folded Old Vic Theatre Progamme in VG+ condition:'The XVth Century Morality Play, Everyman.' 1922-1923 Season with original cast list including a young John Laurie, also credited as ASM. / John Archibald Austen (1886Ð1948) was a British book illustrator. His early works, including a fine Hamlet, were Beardsleyesque in style, but after 1925 he was influenced by the Art Deco movement./The Somonyng of Everyman (The Summoning of Everyman) or Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play. Like John Bunyan's 1678 Christian novel The Pilgrim's Progress, Everyman uses allegorical characters to examine the question of Christian salvation and what Man must do to attain it./John Paton Laurie (1897Ð1980) was a Scottish actor best remembered for his role in the sitcom Dad's Army (1968-1977) as Private Frazer. Following World War I, and training at Central School of Speech and Drama, John Laurie joined the Old Vic repertory company. Covers mottled, spine less so; spine ends and extremities a little rubbed in places. Used. Sound. VG minus.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. SIGNED by John Austen with his handwritten colophon: "Large Paper Edition of 100 Copies This is No 18 John Austen" on the reverse side of the flyleaf. Limited to 100 copies printed, 1925. The book has 12 color tipped-in plates and four B/W illustrations by John Austen. The contents are unmarked and show only a slight wave to the page block. Minor foxing to the endpapers. There is a separation to the paper at the front hinge but the binding remains solid. Tightly bound in pale blue cloth with vellum spine. Rubbing to the cover margins and soiling to the leather, remains Good. Large format (10 1/4" X 12 3/4"). International and domestic priority shipping may require added postage charges. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First edition thus. Quarto. (2),xx,365,(1); (8),(367)-772,(2)pp. Dust jackets with illustrated paper spine labels and L.E.C. bookplates on front covers. Lavender half-cloth, gilt lettered spines, over patterned boards. Illustrated with 20 colored plates by John Austen. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies (this is #109), signed on the limitation leaf by John Austen. Bottom edge and fore-edge of text block untrimmed and slightly foxed. Front free endpapers partially browned. Previous owner's bookplates on front pastedowns. Dust jackets with minor edge wear and spines age toned. Lacking the publisher's slipcase. …

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Octavo, ix, 333 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's decorated black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Fraying and wear to head and tail of spine. Mild wear to edges and corners of boards. Mild scuffing to cloth. Tearing to gutters between endpapers and pastedowns. Staining and foxing to endpapers and pastedowns. Penciling to rear free endpaper. Age toning throughout textblock. Shelved under Display Table #2. 1387403. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

LIMITED EDITION, this being number 289 of 500 copies SIGNED by the Author and Artist. Octavo. Frontispiece and further black and white illustrations by John Austen. Publisher's green cloth, gilt title to spine and pictorial title label laid to upper. Top edge gilt, all other edges untrimmed, some uncut. Fading to spine, internally clean. Very good. Signed.…

First in this edition. Large format. 26cms x 17cms x 4cms. Pp.xxiv/557, frontispiec + 16 further full-page illustrations by John Austen, illustrated endpapers, spotting to closed fore-edge and a few light spots to final pages. Black cloth, gilt title and decoration to spine, gilt motif illustration to front board. Dustwrapper has loss to top of spine and wear to base. VG/Good.…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 199 pages; G; full contemporary black cloth binding; spine with gilt lettering; marked shelf wear and mild scuffing; corners bumped; crown and tail of spine missing; lower left corner of back board chewed; contains blue, gold, and black illustrations; pages clean; shelved Case 14. 1354655. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. AsNew Hardcover with Fine Brown slipcase. XVI+549 pages. Profusely illustrated including 8 color plates by John Austen. 9.9"x6.5"x2.5". be43.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus. Octavo, 408 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine brown with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Mild general shelf wear. Top edge of textblock gilt. Tanning to endpapers. Mild to moderate foxing throughout textblock. Signed flat by Austen on half title page. Shelved in Case 0. 1399985. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Smollett's second novel. Quarto, two volumes, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe / Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and numbers to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edges gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, frontispieces, title page vignettes, with color illustrations throughout. Boldly signed by illustrator John Austen on the colophon page at the rear of volume two. One of 1,500 numbered copies, this is number 3. In fine condition. Introduction by G.K. Chesterton. Illustrated by John Austen. John Austen was a distinguished British illustrator whose elegant, Art Decoâ"influenced line work and imaginative visual interpretations brought a distinctive modern sensibility to classic literary texts, including works by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and Jane Austen. Tobias Smollett (1721â"1771) was a prominent Scottish novelist, historian, and satirist whose works played a vital role in the development of the eighteenth-century English novel. Drawing on his experiences as a naval surgeon and traveler, Smollett infused his fiction with a vivid realism, episodic structure, and biting social critique, evident in major works such as Roderick Random (1748) and Humphry Clinker (1771). The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751) is a picaresque novel that offers a scathing satirical portrait of 18th-century British society through the episodic misadventures of its irreverent and often cruel protagonist. Building on the conventions of the Spanish picaresque and inspired by Fieldingâs Tom Jones, Smollett employs exaggerated characterization and episodic structure to critique social hypocrisy, corruption, and the pretensions of gentility.…

dj. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Dust jacket spine panels toned and with some edgewear, board tips of vol. 1 bumped, slipcase a little worn, volumes clean and square. § Edition of 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Bennett's very successful story of the lives of two sisters which was adapted into a 1921 film starring Fay Compton. Signed. …

dj. [New York]: Printed for the Members of the The Limited Editions Club at the University Press Oxford, 1941. 2 vols., 4to. Illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Quarter green cloth and floral patterned boards, matching slipcase. Vol. 1 with printed dust jacket, dust jacket of vol. 2 lacking. Bumping and wear to tips of vol. 2, shelf wear to slipcase, otherwise a clean square copy. § Copy #245 of 1,500 numbered copies, signed by the illustrator. Bennett's very successful story of the lives of two sisters which was adapted into a 1921 film starring Fay Compton. Signed.…