paul bloomfield compiler (3 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1935 first edition on hessian beige cloth.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Ardizonne, Edward (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket and other illustrations by Edward Ardizonne, in very good condition for its age. Jacket is marked and discoloured, especially the spine, and edges are creased and torn. Board corners and spine ends are bumped, and spine is cocked. Page block, pastedowns, endpapers and a few of the pages are lightly tanned and foxed. Pages are otherwise clear and bright throughout. LW. Used.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Edward Ardizonne (illustrator). First edition. An evocative, richly illustrated anthology celebrating the Mediterranean, with numerous illustrations by Edward Ardizzone, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding with white stitch pattern.This volume is a first edition, complete with the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.This is a handsomely bound anthology of travel, history and literary sketches celebrating the Mediterranean.Bloomfield arranged short passages, from classical writers to 19-century tourists, into region-by-region chapters. Regions include: Gibraltar & Spain, Minorca & Corsica, Italy & Sicily, Greece & the Levant, North Africa, and the Holy Land, with authors ranging from Hesiod, Thucydides and Gibbon to Disraeli, Byron and Lady Hester Stanhope)Each chapter is decorated with a characterful line drawing illustration by Edward Ardizzone, with a charming colour illustrated frontispiece. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, lovely. One or two slight handling marks to boards. Slight age toning to perimeters of boards and spine. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper from 1941. Slight offsetting to rear endpapers. Dust wrapper, smart. Slight loss to corner of front panel. Minor age toning to perimeters of wrapper, with the odd spot to the inside. Rubbing to spine resulting in slight loss to pictorial paper. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the odd closed tear and chip, more so to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned. One or two spots to first and last few leaves. Very Good Indeed. book.