gold tree von squire j c (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London, Martin Secker, 1917. Octavo, [viii], 90 pages. Gilt-lettered cloth; top edge gilt; leading edge uncut; covers slightly rubbed; endpapers and adjacent leaves tanned; uncut edges slightly dusty and with a few small tears; pencilled ownership details on front flyleaf; an excellent copy. With initials designed by Austin O. Spare and cut in wood by W. Quick. Number 36 of 500 copies signed by the author.

Hardcover. First edition. 89 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 107 of 500 signed by Squire. Initial letters designed by Austin O. Spare & cut in wood by W. Quick. Series of short stories. Wide text margins, bright and clean copy. Orig. green publisher's cloth. Teg. Near fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: fair to vg. First edition. 4to. 89pp. 183/500. Original dust jacket and grey-green cloth, gold lettering on front and spine, in original dust jacket (with artist's monograph on back dw, top edge gilt, foreedge untrimmed. Sir John Collins Squire was a British writer, poet, writer, historian, and prominent editor of literature after the first World War at the London Mercury, and an early announcer for the Wimbledon. In addition to his many endeavors, he was also knighted. In this book he published 11 short stories including The Gold Tree, A Summer's Day, A Good Little Boy, A Dead Man, Duty, and The Bookshop in Dreams. Signed by author on colophon. Each story illustrated with an initial designed by Austin O. Spare, and cut in wood by W. Quick. DJ with wear along edges, chips and minor staining. Minor foxing at foredge. Dust jacket in overall fair, interior in very good condition.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Austin O. Spare; W. Quick (illustrator). First edition. A signed presentation copy of J. C. Squire's limited edition collection of short stories, in the very scarce publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. A signed presentation copy of this limited edition, inscribed 'Frederick H. Evans from J C Squire 1918'. Frederick H. Evans was an English photographer, best known for his images of architectural subjects, such as English and French cathedrals.A limited edition work, being number 39 of 500 copies produced, and signed by the author to the limitation leaf.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with vignette woodcuts, with a photographic portrait of the author mounted as a frontispiece.With two newspaper clippings about the author loosely inserted.A collection of eleven short stories from the writer, and editor of the 'London Mercury'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper back strip age toned, with significant spotting to fore edge of front wrap. Two significant closed tears to the centre of the back strip, with a small hole to the back strip tail, and a small loss to the back strip head. Small hole to the centre of the front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to title page, and frontispiece perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. signed by author. book.