Shields cyril (5 Ergebnisse)

LACKS REAR BOARD, sm octavo, illus heavy boards, green lettering to spine, printed eps, 110pp, illus, G (rear board completely missing, front board detached but re-affixed with tidy archival tape, heavy bruising/creasing & soiling to front board, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, occasional pencil annotation to margins). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Limited Edition. Hbk, 74p ill. A clean unmarked copy in fine condition. Limited ed. of 100 signed and numbered copies. - Text on lining paper. This is no. 17. Scarce / Prin. [English Poetry. Welsh authors] f1726 / m16217. illustrations by Sue Shields (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. First Paperback Edition. 8vo. pp 110. Original publisherÕs illustrated yellow covers, lettered black. Illustrated in b/w throughout. With the bookplate of the late Christopher Brinson, a collector of books on magic, researcher and author of works on magic (Arcady Press). The bookplate shows a sphinx with pyramids in the background and conjuring tools in the foreground including a magic wand. Some creasing at spine with slight chipping at spine ends and faint surface marking, otherwise sound, near very good with clean text and plates. …

1st edition. Chapters: I.Tricks Requiring no Apparatus; II.Tricks Requiring only Apparatus Which will Always be Obtainable; III.Tricks Requiring Apparatus Which can Always be Carried in the Pocket; IV.Tricks Requiring Apparatus; V.Simple Jokes and Catches. Thought-Reading Tricks; VI.Miscellaneous Tricks. Plus Magic in Monkey Land (Tricks tried out on chimps and baboons at the Zoo with photos illustrations. 18.5cms x 12.5cms x 1.5cms. Pp.110, occasional figure illustrations, 7 black & white photos of the author trying out tricks on chimps and baboons, ads for books on conjuring to endpapers. Illustrated stiff cardboard cover, slightly cocked, wear with tears and loss to base of spine. Scarce. Good.…

First Edition. Number 24 of 100 signed, specially-bound copies, from a total edition of 500. Octavo; tan buckram; 74pp. Free of markings or notable wear; Near Fine; issued without dustwrapper. The final published collection from this fine Welsh poet, who died young in 1974. A scarce book, especially in the limited issue. Nicely illustrated by the Cardiff-based artist Sue Shields. Signed.…