luck bean rows fairy tale von nodier charles (16 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. 1921. No Edition Remarks. 60 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards. Colour illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations are lightly tanned throughout. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present to some pages. Boards have heavy shelf-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Light tanning to spine and edges. Wear marks overall.

Zustand: Used - Good. Good hardback. In paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine. Translated from the French; illustrations by Claud Lovat Fraser. Internally VG, but boards worn at edges & scuffed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Claud Lovat Fraser (illustrator). inscribed and signed by the publisher on front end-paper, decorative boards in a clear protective wrapper, boards show wear and chipping, 60pp, some marks on some pages throughout, overall good + condition.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. cover shows minor wear, bumped corners, rubbing. gift inscription on the ffep. pages tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser (illustrator). First Edition. Ranning block to free end papers, name-plate to half-title page, with owner's name/address written on it in pencil, rub to extremeties, worn through at corners. ; 250x155mm; 60 pages.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rediscover the enchanting world of Charles Nodier's 'The Luck of the Bean-Rows,' a timeless fairy tale brimming with magic and fantasy. This captivating short story, steeped in the rich tradition of folklore, invites readers into a realm where the ordinary and the extraordinary intertwine.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Daniel O' Connor. London. Printed at The Curwen Press. 1921. Reprint. No DW. Patterned boards, rubbed and worn to edges. Endpapers browned, gift inscription. Delightful coloured vignettes. Tall slim 8vo. A well used but generally clean and sound copy.

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Hardback. Illustrated by Claud Lovat Fraser. 60pp Daniel O'Connor, London. Printed at the Curwen Press (1921) Edges of boards rubbed, otherwise very good.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Claude Lovat Fraser (illustrator). First edition. A charming fairy-tale by Charles Nodier. Translated into English. First thus, the first edition of this particular translation. Illustrated, with several colour vignettes by Claud Lovat Fraser. In the original publisher's boards. Undated, dated from Copac and the preface. In a quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart. Bumping to the extremities and to the head and tail of spine. Spine is faded with patches of light rubbing. A few marks to the boards. Offsetting to the endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright. Occasional spots to pages. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 60 p. + Colored frontis; color illustrated title page; and one plate. Colored text illustrations throughout. Toned paper. 8vo. 270 mm. With the separate poem "To the Princess." Unusual cloth backed illustrated paper boards binding; decorated with a pattern of diamonds in five colors. Claud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921) was a wonderful illustrator of books , broadsides, posters, bookplates, prints, advertisements, periodicals, and theater design. His father was a London solicitor, and after leaving Charterhouse School (1907), Lovat began to read law. Wi thin four years he decided to make art his profession. Most of his early works were caricatures in the tradition of Max Beerbohm. But he grew quickly as an artist and, in 1912, established a publishin g venture (with the poet Ralph Hodgson & the bibliophile Holbrook Jackson) called 'At the Sign of the Flying Fame'. At the outbreak of World War One he enlisted, in spite of a constitution weakened by rheumatic fever. He became a Captain of the 14th Durham Light Infantry. At the battle of Ypres salient his was the first battalion to undergo a gas attack. Though debilitated by his battlefield exper iences, he continued to render valuable service to the war effort. After the armistice he entered his most productive period. He died after an operation, while on vacation in Dymchurch, Kent. "I reviv e after 6 p.m. and by 8 I am in full swing and work like a devil. I have enormous accumulations of work to clean up if I am to exist at all as an artist. If I had a month and worked from 8 a.m til 10 p .m. I believe I should still be three years behind-hand. It is purgatory to see these years slip by when I might be doing good things better and better." -- Claud Lovat Fraser to Harold Monro, August 5, 1918. W34 Language: eng.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 60 p. + Colored frontis; color illustrated title page; and one plate. Colored text illustrations throughout. Toned paper. 8vo. 25.5 cm. Very unusual homemade (folk) binding of striped cloth and hand decorated leather. "Gift of Gerald A. Devlin." Third issue, with the dedication poem 'To the Princess' Christmas, 1921. Millard 198. Claud Lovat Fraser (1890-1921) was a wonderful illustrator of books , broadsides, posters, bookplates, prints, advertisements, periodicals, and theater design. His father was a London solicitor, and after leaving Charterhouse School (1907), Lovat began to read law. Wi thin four years he decided to make art his profession. Most of his early works were caricatures in the tradition of Max Beerbohm. But he grew quickly as an artist and, in 1912, established a publishin g venture (with the poet Ralph Hodgson & the bibliophile Holbrook Jackson) called 'At the Sign of the Flying Fame'. At the outbreak of World War One he enlisted, in spite of a constitution weakened by rheumatic fever. He became a Captain of the 14th Durham Light Infantry. At the battle of Ypres salient his was the first battalion to undergo a gas attack. Though debilitated by his battlefield exper iences, he continued to render valuable service to the war effort. After the armistice he entered his most productive period. He died after an operation, while on vacation in Dymchurch, Kent. "I reviv e after 6 p.m. and by 8 I am in full swing and work like a devil. I have enormous accumulations of work to clean up if I am to exist at all as an artist. If I had a month and worked from 8 a.m til 10 p .m. I believe I should still be three years behind-hand. It is purgatory to see these years slip by when I might be doing good things better and better." -- Claud Lovat Fraser to Harold Monro, Augus t 5, 1918 W34 Language: eng.

First U.K. edition, first issue printed at the Westminster Press. 62 pages with colour illustrations throughout by Lovat Fraser. Colour decorated endpapers. Patterned cloth-backed boards.Some rubbing to corners of covers. Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Fraser, Claud Lovat (illustrator). 1st Edition. Curwen Press Issue. Frontispiece illusrated with lovely color plate. Title page also illustrated with color plate and decorative border. 31 delightful colored illustrations in book. 60 pages, clean, good condition. Endpapers lightly yellowed. Colorful diamond graphic boards with green cloth spine, black titles. Boards show some wear, lightly scratched at edges. Head/tail of spine, edges and corners worn and lightly bumped. GOOD+. Book.

FIRST FRASER EDITION, title-page vignette and 30 further colour-printed illustrations by Fraser of varying sizes, pp. 60, [1], tall 8vo, original blue cloth-backed boards with a repeated diamond design in various colours, the merest hint of rubbing at extremities, the endpapers also patterned with a multi-coloured diamond motif, preserved in cloth slipcase, near fine. A very bright copy. The first issue of this attractive book, printed at Gerard Meynell's Westminster Press on toned paper (subsequent issues were printed at the Curwen Press and the contents vary slightly). (Millard 196).