thomas dylan blake peter (6 Ergebnisse)

4to. pp: 173. First edition. Original publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers with flaps with black and red lettering at front and spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white and colour by Peter Blake. This is a large and heavy object and may require additional cost to post. ISBN: 9781907587610 Covers show ever so slight signs of shelfwear. One long crease at rear cover from top to bottom. Tiny chip to front cover near spine. Otherwise tight and internally perfectly clean copy. Near fine.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. An obsession that has spanned almost 30 years, Dylan Thomas's seminal mid-century 'play for voices', 'Under MilkWood', has long been present in the imagination of Peter Blake. From trips during his Brotherhood of Ruralists' days to Thomas's creative refuge at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, to repeated playing of the recorded versions in his treasure trove of a studio, the 'dismays and rainbows' of these sequences of 110 watercolours, pencil portraits and etchings will form one of Blake's most substantial single bodies of work. 173 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Regular edition of 2500 unnumbered paperback copies. Shelf wear to edges, spine slightly faded, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

[Modern classic] FIRST EDITION THUS, Deluxe Edition. Quarto (42 x 32cm in case), pp.173. Number 53 of 100 copies SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, with a separate signed and numbered original print entitled ''The Sailor's Arms''. Publisher's original green cloth with Blake illustration inlaid to upper, card folder containing print, housed in an elegant blue cloth solander box with Blake portrait of the author to lid, blocked in gilt to the spine. A fine, as-new copy. The classic work in a brand new letterpress edition by Michael Mitchell of the Libanus Press, illustrated and introduced by Peter Blake. The Queen Anne Press was originally run Ian Fleming, and is now managed by his niece Kate Grimond and nephew Fergus Fleming. Blake also illustrated the cover for Fleming's From Russia With Love (2009).

First edition thus: Introduction and profuse illustrations by Sir Peter Blake. Quarto. 173 pages. An ambitious publishing project, decades in the gestation, with Sir Peter Blake producing more than a hundred artworks using various techniques and full of wit. De Luxe edition: number 34 of 100 copies with a separate signed and numbered original print by Sir Peter Blake entitled ''The Sailor's Arms''. The book is also signed by Blake on the title-page. The print is held in folded card. The book and print are in fine condition and are housed in a blue cloth solander box with a colour portrait of Dylan Thomas mounted on the front.

Queen Anne Press, 2013. Folio, publisher's cloth boards (in the same shade of green as the 1st edition), with artwork inset to upper portion; 'Shop at Mog's' in gilt to lower board; dark green endpapers; lettered in gilt to spine; pp. [vi], 7-173, [iii]; with numerous colour, and black and white, illustrations; contained in the custom-made solander box, together with an original signed print (84/100) by the illustrator, contained in original tissue and card folder; fine. De Luxe edition, limited to 100 copies, this copy no. 84, signed by Blake to the title. The binding is by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the solander box by Ludlow Bookbinders. Published to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth, and to celebrate a body of work by Peter Blake comprising a richly detailed sequence of 110 watercolours, pencil portraits and collages. "Doyen of British artists", the Queen Anne Press website states, "his pencil portraits of the myriad characters of Llaggerub, collages representing scenes from the book, and watercolours depicting the extraordinary dreams combine to make a unique volume."A sumptuous production.

80/100 COPIES signed by the artist on the title-page and with a signed and numbered original print by the same, colour-printed illustrations throughout, text printed in black and red, pp. 173, 4to, original green cloth with Blake illustration inlaid to upper board, backstrip and lower board lettered in gilt, folder containing print, together in blue cloth solander box with Blake portrait of the author to lid, new. A handsome edition, designed by Michael Mitchell of the Libanus Press.