Clock von spark muriel (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Two stars team up--Muriel Spark and Edward Gorey--to bring the charming tale of Ticky the clock to life in this children's classic. Once there was a very fine clock named Ticky, who lived with Professor Horace John Morris and kept perfect time. Each night, at fourteen minutes past ten, his time was used to set the rest of the clocks in the house. When the professor's friends suggest that Ticky be made a professor, too, he explains what really happens during the quiet hours of the day when the professor is out, when all the rooms have been cleaned and dusted, and the clocks talk to one another and tell the stories of their lives.    No artist is better suited to capture Ticky's quiet stateliness and grace than Edward Gorey, who brings this tale masterfully to life through his characteristic pen and ink drawings. Full of wit, wisdom, and affairs of the heart, The Very Fine Clock is a very fine picture book.…

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Gorey, Edward (illustrator).

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Gorey, Edward (illustrator).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two stars team upMuriel Spark and Edward Goreyto bring the charming tale of Ticky the clock to life in this children's classic.Once there was a very fine clock named Ticky, who lived with Professor Horace John Morris and kept perfect time. Each night, at fourteen minutes past ten, his time was used to set the rest of the clocks in the house. When the professor's friends suggest that Ticky be made a professor, too, he explains what really happens during the quiet hours of the day when the professor is out, when all the rooms have been cleaned and dusted, and the clocks talk to one another and tell the stories of their lives. No artist is better suited to capture Ticky's quiet stateliness and grace than Edward Gorey, who brings this tale masterfully to life through his characteristic pen and ink drawings. Full of wit, wisdom, and affairs of the heart, The Very Fine Clock is a very fine picture book. Gorey, Edward (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Oblong 8vo (17 x 23.5 cm), [32] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities, small tear at the head of the spine). Muriel Spark's first children's book Illustrated by Edward Gorey. The first UK edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Swiss edition. Text in German. Oblong octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Swiss edition. Text in German. Oblong octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Very good hardback copy in good dustjacket. The dustjacket is price clipped and has very slight wear to top and bottom of spine (very slight). Images available. Edward Gorey (illustrator). Book.

First edition, Toledano B40a; oblong 16mo.; orange cloth covered boards with purple decorations and lettering on spine, hardcover; black and white illustrations; a very good clean tight copy in an edgeworn, unclipped dust jacket that has 3 closed tears and is sunned on the spine.

Orange hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. Spine of jacket faded. 170mm x 230mm (7" x 9"). [30pp]. B/w illustrations. Signed and dedicated by the author to René [de Chocher] . René de Cocher was a life-long friend of Spark and co-founded the New York literary agency of James Brown Associates.…

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong octavo, unpaginated. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine green with black lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering, price uncut: "$3.95." Sun fading and chipping to spine of dust jacket. Light edge wear to dust jacket, with two small closed tears on the back top edge of dust jacket. Light bumping to boards and spine cocked. Small stain on second and tenth pages of text. Signed by Spark and Gorey on title page. Shelved case 3. Toledano B-40a Muriel Spark has been a notable Scottish author since her debut novel in 1957, "The Comforters." She was made a DBE in 1993 for her contributions to the literary canon of the British Isles. "The Very Fine Clock" is her only children's book. Edward Gorey (1925-2000) was an American writer, illustrator, and designer best known for his darkly whimsical pen-and-ink drawings and macabre literary works. His distinctive Victorian-inspired style combined gothic humor, surreal narratives, and meticulous crosshatched illustrations in books such as The Gashlycrumb Tinies and Amphigorey. Beyond publishing, Gorey also designed acclaimed theatrical sets and costumes, including the Tony Award-winning production of Dracula on Broadway. 1412189. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Signed.…

First British edition of this charming childrenâs tale by the celebrated novelist Muriel Spark. Oblong octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated throughout by Edward Gorey. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. The Very Fine Clock (1968) is a whimsical children?s story by the Scottish novelist Muriel Spark (1918-2006), best known for her masterpiece The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. It tells of Ticky, a fine mantel clock so wise and well-regarded that he comes to instruct the professor who owns him along with the other clocks and objects of the household. The book is illustrated with the unmistakable pen-and-ink drawings of Edward Gorey (1925-2000), the American artist and writer celebrated for his darkly comic, cross-hatched illustrations and his own macabre little books.…

First Edition. Small oblong quarto (17.25x23.5cm.); original cloth in mauve pictorial dust jacket; unpaged. A few tiny chips and tears to jacket extremities, spine and flap folds sunned to green, else Fine in Very Good jacket. TOLEDANO B40a.