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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.01.
Published by The Alcuin Press, London, 1951
Seller: Neil Shillington: Bookdealer/Booksearch, Hobe sound, FL, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. 289-320 pages.
Published by Mowbray; Morehouse-Gorham
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.
Published by Cassell & Company, London, 1923
Seller: Bailgate Books Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Red covers illustrated with gold, black and orange. Spine is slightly sun faded. Corners are lightly bumped and worn, wear to edges and spine ends. Contains all 12 listed colour plates including the fold out frontis 'The March of Science As Shown by a Comparison Between 1912 and 1922' Laconia vs a Modern Liner, and many more black and white illustrations. Title page and front end-paper are a little lose, paper over rear cover inner joint is wholly split. Covers are lose but still attached, binding is otherwise sound. Pages are clean, paper is a little darkened, plates are clean and bright. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 08120124032. For International tracked shipping please select the Priority shipping service. This book is heavier than 1kg, and may incur additional delivery charges on some delivery services to some locations.
Published by London: Methuen., 1983
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents, with a little light spotting to the top of the text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' inscriptions. Complete with the spine-faded original dustwrapper which has a small mark to the front panel. Not price clipped (£8.95 to the bottom of the front flap). Peake was commissioned to illustrate Dickens's Bleak House in 1945, but the project was ultimately abandoned. Here his sketches and illustrations for the work are paired with extracts from the text for the first time. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Published by Methuen Children's Books, London, 1983
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Mervyn Peake (illustrator). First edition. A scarce and delightful study of illustrations drawn by Mervyn Peake for 'Bleak House', published for the first time in this work. The first edition, first impression of this scarce work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. A wonderful collection of the sketches of Mervyn Peake, which comprises character portraits intended to illustrate Charles Dickens' Bleak House. These sketches sit alongside extracts from the novel. Also featured is an informative introduction by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen. Towards the end of 1945, the English writer and artist Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) was commissioned to illustrate Bleak House. Due to the paper and printing difficulties immediately after the Second World War, the project was abandoned. This work publishes Peake's sketches for the first time. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, cloth is in excellent condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Dust wrapper remains smart and bright except for sunning to the spine. Fine. book.