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Best.-Nr. ria9781036971878_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; In 2014 scientists at the University of Edinburgh began a 500-year experiment: sealing microbes in glass vials half shielded by lead to test how long life can survive in desiccated form under cosmic and terrestrial radiation. 400 dup paperback
Best.-Nr. rja664117UKslim Qrto HBdw/djillustrated1st edn. FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright crisp clean glossy laminated colour pictorial artwork by Errol Le Cain illustrated dw/dj panels with black lettering to front panel; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present. Topfore-edges bright and clean; contents bright tight clean solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners appears unread apart from my collation. Bright crisp clean sharp-cornered colour pictorial illustrated glazed boards - design repeated from dw/dj and clean plain white endpapers. UKslim Qrto HBdw/dj illustrated1st edn32pp unpaginated and excluding front free endpapers includes 13 full-page coloured illustrations which includes the illustrated dedication page other coloured illustrations and border edge decorations on every page; plus colour illustrated title page aforementioned dedication page with full-page full-colour illustrated frntis to it's reverse. An increasingly and highly collected and prolific children's book illustrator and an unusual item in Le Cain's bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the canon for discerning collectors and fans alike. Errol John Le Cain b.1941 - d.1989. Worked as Erroll Le Cain. Born in Singapore son of a member of the police force. During his childhood he travelled extensively in the Far East and lived for five years in India. He worked in Pearl & Dean advertising studios 1956-60 and on animated films and titles in the Richard Williams Studio 1960-67. Following that he worked freelance as a filmtelevision and exhibition designer. As a book illustrator Le Cain had developed a distinctive graphic style in which outline and pattern are dominant elements. He aimed to create bold simple designs retaining relevant detail that can be dramatic or humorous and adapts his style to the varying moods of the stories. He uses pen and ink with gouache for colour work. He won the Kate Greenaway Medal with 'Hiawatha's Childhood' UK FABER1984 in 1985. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight and value of this item for correct shipping/ Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note stocks' shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the order especially if the item is offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can now in some cases cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. LONDON.FABER and FABER LIMITED,1988. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 158251937. TLS on letterhead of Dacres Quantock Rod Weston-super-Mare; 19 April 1937 3pp. 4to good condition. Long paranoid letter bitterly attacking 'seaside towns' and Weston-super-Mare in particular as 'run by councillors of the Tammany Hall type interested in the sale of "drink" and all the various things that go with it'. 'It is absolutely unfair that people who have to live at the seaside for health reasons should be at the mercy of these gangsters drink trafficer sic and worse and that they should have to bring up their children in such a poisonous atmosphere.' He hopes that RL will forward his letter to the editor of the News Chronicle who will 'start a movement for getting certain parts of the country put under the care of the Government and not left to the corrupt rule of the average local council'. 1937. unknown
Best.-Nr. rja731717UK8vo HBminus dw/djillustrated1st edn. VG. Neat blue inked seasonal familial gift presentation inscrptndate to top corner verso of front free endpaper. Publisher's original pale beige cloth boards with bright crisp blocked gilt title letters within a dark green ink printed vertical box/panel and bright crisp blocked gilt letters publisher to foot of spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - and immaculate monochrome 'Fairy-Tale Land' map illustrated endpapers. Three corners with minor creases from minor bumping - front lower corner with a light faint thumbprint-sized indeterminate stain/mark; a similar coloured but miniscule thin strip stain along board's front top edge too; otherwise rest of boards bright and clean. Topfore-edges bright and clean with little or no marks; contents bright tight clean solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners but previous owner has placed a blue ink tick alongside all but 8 of the tales on the Contents list/table pages - the only annotation noted. Else appears unread apart from my collation. UK8vo HB minus dw/djillustrated1st edn1- 146pp paginated includes translators' Foreword 39 fairy tales - 4 with b/w illustrated headpieces and 2 with tail-pieces 4 b/w illustrations within tales' text and a full colour illustrated frntis 4 full-page 3-colour block b/wochre/yellow artwork illustrations - all called for present and all illustrations by Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone; plus unpaginated colour frntis title page ContentsIllustrations lists/tables - Acknowledgements to verso of Illustration list/table. Highly collected and prolific children's book illustratorsan uncommon scarce and unusual item in Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone's genre in bold style and will be an important and welcome addition to the Grahame Johnstones' canon. Want more Janet & Anne Grahame JOHNSTONE titles For similar and other titles please seach my CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogue. Twins born 1st June1928. Janet died in a tragic accident on 20th January1979 her sister surviving her until 25th May1998. Children's book illustrators specialising in large brightly coloured gift books mainly published by Dean & SonLtd. in which the full-page illustrations surround the passages of text. Janet specialized in animals and birds Anne focused on the period costumes that so dominated their work. Their work represents a recent manifestation of the nursery tradition mass-marketed by Mabel Lucie Attwell and updated by Hilda Boswell characterised by unfailing sentimentality and a palpable determination to please. Between them they published over 200 titles; with over 5000 illustrations in total: 1000 in b/w and 4000 in colourand 10 technical equestrian books. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the lighter weight and value of this item for correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note stocks' actual shipping/Pp costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded AFTER order's receipt and before the order's despatch especially if the items are offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can now in some cases cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. UK.EDINBURGH & LONDON.W. R. CHAMBERS LTD.,1960. hardcover
1858Best.-Nr. S1876Washington: Smithsonian 1858-1862. viixx95;viii68;xxv285;iv259 . . HB. Original cloth. Vg. Four parts bound in one volume. Smithsonian hardcover
Best.-Nr. rja592416UK8vo HB minus issued dw/djillustrated1st edn thus.Originaltrue UK 8vo HBillustrated 1st edn published in 1910 by SmithElder & Co.London.Also issued simultaneously in the US.This UK8vo HBb/w illus is the then new and revised edn by Chapman & Dodd of 1922so a 1st edn thus. VG. No owner inscrptnminus issued dw/dj.Generally bright and clean - apart from an incomplete partial cup-ring to upper boardand basically the major detracting fault - publisher's original brick-red cloth boards with black ink printed caricature illustration reproduced from an internal b/w illustration plate and black ink lettering to front boardblack ink printed lettering to spine/backstrip alsorear board plain: with negligible shelf-wear to edges and sharp corners.Plain grey endpapers with some off-set page edge browning/toning.Top edges slightly aged/tonedfore-edges cleaner and brighter but are lightly and sporadically foxed/spotted; contents generally brighttight cleansolid and sound with very little foxing throughout the text's body - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners appears unread.UK8vo HB1st edn thus newrevised9-256pp paginated includes 25 chapters16 frntis unpaginated b/w illustrations by Charles Folkard - all attachedall called for and present throughout the text and the book; plus unpaginated foxed/spotted half-title pageb/w illustrated frntisa lightly and faintly foxed/spotted title page and separate Contents Illustrations lists/tables. Charles James Folkard 1878-1963.Worked as Charles Folkard. Born LewishamLondonson of a printer.Became an expert conjurerandwhile designing his own programmesdiscovered his preference for drawing.Studied at various schools of art including the St John's Wood School of Art.He illustrated nursery literature and children's classics in black and white and full colour with professionalismoften combining naturalistic detail with a strong element of caricature.He was the creator of the Daily Mail's children's strip cartoon Teddy Tail 1915 which continued until 1960and the author of a number of children's plays and pantomimes.He lived in LondonKent and Sussex. Please contact seller @ rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk because of the weight of this itemfor correct shipping/Pp quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please notestocks' shipping quotes are adjusted for any refunds AFTER receipt of order and BEFORE the despatch of the orderespecially if the item is offered either Pp included/FREE. N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard US AIRMAIL to these destinations can nowin some casescost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. LONDON.CHAPMAN & DODD,1922. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 243089 May 1899; 112 Manor Road Stoke Newington N London. See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged. Folded once. The recipient whose name Jacobs gives as ‘D. H. Denselow Esq’ was the commercial artist and autograph hunter Douglas Harold Hellier-Denselow whose studio was in Gunnersbury West London. The note reads: ‘Dear Mr. Denselow / I am much obliged for your letter & its accompanying illustration. I shall not follow your example & affix my eye to my autograph / Yours very truly / W. W. Jacobs’. 9 May 1899; 112 Manor Road, Stoke Newington, N [London]. unknown
2007Best.-Nr. DADAX1434346951Authorhouse 2007-11-26. paperback. New. 8.50x0.36x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Authorhouse paperback
192118p., illus. 12 color illus. Printed by De La More Press, London. Hardcover Good condition; edges of green boards faded & worn
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1954Best.-Nr. 108705Mercure de France 1954 4 volumes. In-8 broché 21 cm sur 14. 310-286-296-294 pages. Non massicotés. Tome 4 : pliure au dos et coiffe restaurée, Couverture légèrement jaunie. Bon état d’occasion.
