Lawrence housman (21 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. NY, Lincoln MacVeagh - The Dial Press, 1930. Parchment binding, spine a little sunned, cover blindstamped. Drawings by Paul Woodroffe, wood engravings by Clemence Housman. Unopened copy, no jaket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Blue cloth binding, with yellow lettering on the spine; yellow lettering and a decorative design in yellow and dark blue on the front cover. No date of publication listed; however, it appears to be from the early 1920s. 219 pages. Good condition. Light wear to edges and corners. Spine has faded. Foxing to fore-edge. Binding is a little cocked, but still sturdy and whole. Writing in pencil on front free endpaper and rear pastedown; pages are otherwise free from pen or pencil markings. Dust jacket is brown, with black lettering on the spine and black and red lettering and a black-and-white illustration on the front cover; jacket is protected by a clear plastic Brodart jacket. Good condition. Jacket has toned. Spine is sunned. Chipping to corners and head and foot of spine; some wear and tear, and creasing, to other edges. Tear at bottom edge of back of jacket has been repaired with tape. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white wood engravings, designed by the author and engraved by his sister, Clemence Housman. A children's fairy story from the English playwright Lawrence Housman.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hodder and Stoughton London circa 1925 VG- (worn, scuffing and bumping on extrems inc head and foot of spine, creasing on spine, rear board quite rubbed, inscription and school sticker on front pastedown, binding shaky and coming loose at foot, one page loose, all of the illustrations are present and in crisp condition). Edmund Dulac (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Previous owner's discreet name-plate to front of book. The boards are a bit rubbed and shelfworn. Some foxing; otherwise, internally clean and the binding is tight. The page edges are a bit soiled. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. The boards are marked and worn. Some foxing. A few of the plates are missing. One ownership inscription. The bfep is missing. Repaired binding. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. Pearlescent paper on the spine, with brown paper over boards; gold lettering on the spine, and dark green lettering and a decorative design in dark green printed on the front cover. Title page dated 1922. 96 pages. Very good condition. Boards are protected by a clear plastic jacket. Corners and head and foot of spine are bumped; light wear to edges and corners. Light rubbing to lettering on spine. Binding is square and sturdy. Writing in pencil on front and rear endpapers; pages have toned a bit, but are otherwise free from unwanted markings. A limited edition of 150 copies, of which this is number 17; hand-numbered, and signed by the author, in grey ink, on the limitations page. Collection of five one-act plays, compiled by the British Drama League, by the English playwright Lawrence Housman. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 319pp, twenty colour plates. Edmund Dulac (illustrator).

8 x 6, hardcover, unpag, color illustr, terra cotta cloth with gilt titles and decorations, hinges cracked, insect damage to cloth sizing, corners and spine ends worn, fair FIRST ED.

rigide. Zustand: Bon. Traduites par Henry-D. Davray, 1 vol. in-12 cartonnage bradel dominoté, couv. et dos conservés, Société du Mercure de France, Paris, 1902, 303 pp., 1 f. blanc, 2 ff. (catalogue) Bel exemplaire en parfait état. Edition originale de la traduction française. Langue: Français.

Barcelona, Ediciones del Zodiaco, 1946. Traducc. José Farrán y Mayoral. 17x11 cm. 522 p. Tela, sobrecubierta. Firma antiguo poseedor. Pérdida parcial en sobrecubiwerta, reparada. Buen estado. Primera edición en español. (Ref. PS. 408-C).

Zustand: Good. First edition copy. . Poor dust jacket. Unopened pages. In protective mylar cover. (Nativity, Drama, Plays).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 8vo.pp. 181. Original publisher's attractive cloth binding in green, lettered gilt at spine. Upper board decorated with a fine illustration in black and gilt. Lacks frontispiece. Beautiful engravings by LH in black and white illustrate the text. Hand cut pages. Title page illustrated and decorated in signature Art Nouveau style. / Laurence Housman (1865Ð1959) was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London and worked largely as an illustrator during the first years of his career, before shifting focus to writing. He was a younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman and his sister and fellow activist in the women's suffrage movement was writer/illustrator Clemence Housman. Sound. Very Good. Very slight wear. Lacks frontispiece.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG. Not dated. Top edges spotted otherwise contents tight & clean & in VG+ condition. 20 tipped in plates by Dulac all Fine. Brown cloth binding in VG condition. Dustwrapper chipped along upper edges and a bit discoloured especially on spine otherwise VG.…

Hardcover. Zustand: VG- for age. 1st Edition. Cream boards with red lettering to fr. and sp. 3 red ills. and double border-lines to fr., spine brwned, 2 small black marks and edges lightly tanned but unworn bar sl. sp. end bumping. f/piece with tissue guard +28 + 36, 7 further plates ex-pagination, the main verse text of 36 pp.has Housman's head & tail pieces on every page and is calligraphically set, t.p. has 'With forty-four designs invented, drawn, and written by Lawrence Housman' so presumably he designed this font; outer sides of end-papers tanned, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. This was limited to 1,000 copies of which 250 were for American market, with 100 de luxe copies, of which this is not one (see note verso t.p.). Scarce in this good a condition, 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Lawrence Housman (illustrator). …

pp. 319, (i). Frontispiece and 19 tipped-in colour plates. Original brown cloth gilt, rear cover with a couple of faint marks at the fore-edge not affecting the interior, some foxing of the end-papers, contents clean and joints firm.

Hardcover. First edition. 105 pages. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 160 of 160 signed by Housman and Woodroffe on Kelmscott hand-made paper. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press. Drawing by Paul Woodroffe engraved on wood by Clemence Housman. An early 13th-century French chantefable (a story told in alternating sections of verse and prose, the former sung, the latter recited). Nicks to yapp edges front and rear, rubbing to backstrip head. Orig. beige cloth spine and gray boards, paper spine label and yapp edges. Very good. Woodroffe, Paul (illustrator).…

This poem follows the life of a widow, Jane, and her turn to jumping as a form of worship. Limited edition of 1000 copies; 8vo (19.5 x 13.5 cm); 8 engraved plates, numerous additional in-text illustrations, spotting to prelims, some marginal spotting or offsetting throughout, not affecting text, weak inner joint, else good; publisher's cream boards with red lettering and illustrations, offsetting to endpapers, some age-toning and light soiling to boards, primarily rear board, fading to spine, otherwise good; [xxviii], 36pp. Provenance: Edmund Bulkley (bookplate). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. A nice-looking lot of different editions of the Sufi poet's best-loved, classic epic poem. The individual volumes are illustrated beautifully by a range of different artists and in multiple formats. The poet, Omar Khayyam (or Khayyami) was born, likely at Nishapur, in the Persian northeast, somewhere between about 1025 and 1050 A.D. His surname "Khayyam" means "tent-maker" in Persian, which might, like St. Paul/Saul, have denoted his father's vocation and major income-source. The lot is comprised of the following: 1) Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, New York and London: T.N. Foulis, 1920, a stated reprint of the Second Edition of Macmillan & Co. fro 1859, and illustrated with 15 colored plates by the incomparable artist Frank Brangwyn, tipped-in, onto stiff card stock, quite fine, including at frontis. Bound in a quarto hardcover format, brown cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt-stamped lettering to spine, brown-stamped designs to front cover. Light scuffing to edges, tips, but protected further by stiff Mylar jacket. Unpaginated, but roughly 80 pp. 2) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, London and Glasgow: Collins, 1952. Illustrated by the incomparable artist Robert Stewart Sherriffs in full, bright color plates including at frontis. Flexible Hardcover format, bound in black pebbly cloth, edges and tips scuffed, but gilt edges all round and silk linen ribbon bookmark still affixed firmly. Cracking to front pastedown, erased name inside rear flap, and quite an involved edition. Long introduction by Lawrence Housman, biography of the translator, Edward FitzGerald by G.F. Maine, FitzGerald's biography of Omar Khayyam, then followed by First, Second and Fifth Editions of the Rubaiyat, followed by sections on variations between the editions, comparable table of quatrains, notes to the second edition, glossary and an index to the first lines of the quatrains. 224 pp.; 3) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, rendered into English Verse by Edward Sullivan, New York: Three Sirens Press, a reprint of an Illustrated Editions edition, based on the First and fifth editions, and with a list at book's end of other editions on which this is based. Blue cloth over boards, pebbly black cloth-backed. Really lovely black-and-white drawings by Edmund J. Sullivan including at frontis. 193 [1] pp. 4) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the metrical translations of Edward FitzGerald and E.H. Whinfield and the prose version of Justin H. McCarthy, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1900. Bound in blue cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering and designs to spine, front cover. Scuffing to spine head and foot, edges, tips, faint remains of a gift inscription at first free endpaper, else a little, attractive tank. Introduction by Jessie B. Rittenhouse, followed by plentiful essays including by Mathilde Blind, Andrew Lang and others. 244 pp. including notes and bibliography; 5) The Rubaiyat of a Golfer, by J.A. Hammerton, published in London by Country Life in a First Edition edition, a skinny, short, 12mo hardcover, bound in gray cloth over boards, red lettering to front cover. Previous owner's ink-stamp along top edge, light rubbing to, sunning of front cover, fanciful, cartoonish illustrtions by D.L. Ghilchik. Unpaginated, but roughly 30 pp.; 6) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1898. Based on the texts of the Fourth Edition followed by that of the First Edition, with notes. Biographical Preface by Talcott Williams. Blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering and design to front cover and spine. Top edge gilt. Extensive penned gift inscription at first free endpaper. Short, skinny, mass market paperback-sized, Fine illustration at frontis, tissue-guarded, but tissue torn. 75 pp. including notes by the editor.; 7) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1898, with introductory essays by Andrew Lang and Edward S. Holden. Bound in red cloth over boards, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, rubbed, black-stamped design to front cover. Black-and-white frontis portrait of FitzGerald. Lovely black-and-white plates by Gilbert James. 136 pp.; 8) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami, published in New York by Thomas Crowell, n.d., but perhaps very early 1900s. An uncommonly pretty little exemplar covered in a heavily textured light brown, stippled cloth over boards, gilt lettering over light gray leather label at front cover, being fine floral designs, a stout, short octavo volume, top edges gilt, almost breastpocket-sized. Epilogue by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, note by the editor W. Aldis Wright. 288 pp. and with a complicated Table of Contents including notes, bibliography and index and comparisons between stanzas and translations, notes by former editors, comparisons of stanzas, variations between editions, and the like.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 4to. (26 cm.) [6]1-112p. Frontispiece tipped in color image with paper guard printed with the title plus 9 other tipped in color images with paper guards printed with titles--all images by Edmund Dulac. Text printed on heavy stock. Cream-colored cloth with elaborate decorations on the front cover and the spine in green and gilt [see photos]. Top edge green, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Just hints of wear to extremities, cloth clean and bright, upper corners of covers ever so lightly bumped, gilt bright (!), all illustrations present and in fine condition, all printed paper guards present and in fine condition, previous owner's ink signature on front pastedown [Fred Hooker Gordon, Jr.], else near fine to fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. In remarkably fine condition given its age and fragility--just a gorgeous book with stunning tipped in places by Edmund Dulac . Edmund Dulac [1882-1953] (illustrator).…

London & New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1930, in-8, tela editoriale, pp. 23. Prima edizione. Buone condizioni.