1978, ISBN: 9780719535741

Gebundene Ausgabe

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.Neat,ink previous owner inscrptn to front fep and price-clipped dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated upper wrap, reviews to rear wrap of author's previous… Mehr…

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.Neat,ink previous owner inscrptn to front fep and price-clipped dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated upper wrap, reviews to rear wrap of author's previous book - 'How Green Was My Curate' with minimal shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges and no nicks or tears.Top+fore-edges clean,contents bright,tight and clean. Purple paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 185pp with b/w line illus/ cartoons by Maxine Rogers. The amusing adventures of a young curate in an idiosyncratic Welsh village at the close of the last War were first revealed in 'How Green Was My Curate'.Now, burdened with greater responsibility after the death of the Vicar,Fred Secombe discovers that the potential for accident and eccentricity among his parishioners and colleagues has by no means diminished. Bertie Owen,the Churchwarden,for example,marks the old Vicar's demise by cremating both his garage and car while burning leaves in the garden.Secombe finds himself arbitrating between the new incumbent who is determined to re-organise the parish and the parish committee, led by the irrepressible Bertie Owen,who are determined that he will do nothing of the kind.The Curate's problems are only compounded by his work-shy and accident-prone colleague,Charles.Culminating in an eventful performance of The Pirates of Penzance,'A Curate for all Seasons' proves to be another delightful source of anecdotes couched in warmth and humour. Please contact seller, rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1990., 5, The Sun Dial Press/Garden City, New York, 1940. hardcover, name on the first endpaper, dark red cloth boards and bookmark inside cover, 375 pages including index, 5 3/4 x 8 1/5 inches, very good book condition, no dust jacket. Reprint edition. Clean unmarked pages, slightly yellowed with age. Great reading or reference copy.ABFFF, Sun Dial Press, 1940, 3, Newark Valley, NY: Steamchest Publications, 1995. items by/about: Steam; Gardening; Model Railroads; Rcharlie Mynhier (Build You Own locomotive), Chip Rosenblum (jigstones reviewed), Geoff Spenceley (Aster King George Steam; Gardening; Model Railroads; Ron Brown (new Wrightscale Porter), Mel Ridley (Meths Burners & Wicks). Charlie Mynhier (Build Your Own Boiler), O Scale Live Steam Switcher, & Much More..), Tug Gordon (merlin Mayflower Mods), David Pinniger (welsh Nuts & Black diamonds), Rob Kuhlman (Lathe-free locomotive), John Wenlock (Pot boilering), & Much More... 1st. Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by B/W Illus. 4 vo. Magazine., Steamchest Publications, 1995, 4, Garden City, New York: Doubleday. 1969. First US printing. Hardcover. Black cloth. Inner margins of endpapers tanned from binding materials, yellowing to page edges, minor rubbing to spine ends, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has slightly sunned spine, VG otherwise. Man messes up nature on the California coast in the distant year 1973. Welsh author's first novel. ., Doubleday, 1969, 0, NY: King's Crown Press, 1946. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, gray wrappers, 287 pages. Local government bodies known as county councils were the landlords for 25,000 small farmers, market gardeners, and part-time agriculturalists in England and Wales in 1935. Clean copy. Record # 374939, King's Crown Press, 1946, 3, Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Green cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Condition is VERY GOOD ; no shelf wear, covers very clean. Spine toned with titles invisible. Binding tight and text spotless, sides of text block foxed. Letters. Stax., Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924, 3, Macmillan Pub Co, 1992-07-01. Hardcover. New. 8x5x0. New Condition, Hardcover Book, Macmillan Pub Co, 1992-07-01, 6, Texas A&M University Press, 2007-10-25. Paperback. New. 10x8x0. New Condition, Paperback book, Texas A&M University Press, 2007-10-25, 6, Knoxville, Tennessee: Mountaineer, Inc, 1941. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is tight. Pages clean, age-darkened. Wraps have edge wear, some scuffing and overall handling wear, postage stamp and cancellation mark on back along with small amount of writing. ; Contents: Welsh, "These Smokies." Lasley, "Watch North Carolina." Amick, "White Mountains." Walter, "Tennessee's Youngest Park." Cole, "Mountain Folk and Churches." Johnson, "Making a Garden of Tennessee." Lash, "Townsend of Tuckaleechee Cove." Gooch, "Skiing in the Great Smoky Mountains." Illustrated with black and white photographs of Tennessee mountains, especially the Great Smokies. ; 12.0" tall; 28 pages., Mountaineer, Inc, 1941, 2.5, The Saturday Magazine, Johh William Parker, London, 1844. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good Condition. Magazine/Periodical 8 pages, some marked. Approximately A4 size, with 2 woodcuts. Size: Small Folio. Item Type: Magazine/Periodical. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Saturday Magazine; Inventory No: 281378.., The Saturday Magazine, 1844, 3, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan Pub Co, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near Fine. Hardcover. 323 pps with index, illustrations. Beautifully illustrated guide to conserving water in your American landscape, whether it is a backyard flower garden or a proper vegetable patch. Near fine, tight copy in near fine, crisp dust jacket., Macmillan Pub Co, 1992, 4, publisher: Doubleday Doran & Company, Garden City, NY. Good Hardback Book. Red Cover with gold Swastika and Elephant logo. Spine cover torn. Partial tattered slipcase. [bx326] Tight spine, clean unmarked pages. 787 pages. Shows moderate use. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. A well-loved book, but there are plenty of readings left in this volume. Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling's poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If" (1910). 326, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926, 2.5, NY: Walker, 1977. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 116. A very good copy in little worn dj. Directions for growing adzuki beans, flageolets, kohlrabi, orach, Sicilian fennel, Welsh onion, dow gauk and many more., Walker, 1977, 0, Michael Joseph, London - first edition. 1984 Black cloth bound hardcover 9.5" x 6.35" Ex library copy with stamps to imprint page, edges and rear eps. Over 70 b/w photographs. Minor creases to jacket. VERY GOOD book in GOOD jacket. With dust jacket. International opera star who grew from Welsh miner's son to join Covent Garden Opera Company as principal baritone in 1947. Has wealth of entertaining theatrical anecdotes and trenchant advice., Michael Joseph, London - first edition., 1984, 2.75, UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,ink gift presentation inscrptn to illustrated ffe,price-clip to one dw/dj inner flap,other unclipped.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated colour illustrated+ lettered design by Rex Whistler dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,publisher's original,pink cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped pink gilt caricature face vignetted boards front+rear,with sharp corners and cream illustrated/vignetted eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,48pp [unpaginated] includes 2 title-pages,25 b/w portrait caricatures (which can be viewed two ways - upright and upside down) all illus by Rex Whistler and text/verses by his brother,Laurence Whistler. Here is a book with two fronts,two backs,two introductions and two ways of being opened.It is a portrait gallery of 'characters',and you will find there are two ways of looking at each one. Rex Whistler drew them: his brother Laurence wrote their stories in verse. Although creatures of another age,they live on.Recently,more of his reversible faces have come to light - and now these have been given verses too. Here they all are for the first time together. However you put this book down it will lie face up,which is to say face down.And upside down is how it can never be slipped into a bookshelf. Rex Whistler practised surely the most economical method of portraiture ever devised.He made one set of features do for two characters - often characters with very little in common,like Henry VIII and poor Anne of Cleves. It may not have been economical of effort: he had to keep turning the page round and round. However,the reader has only to turn it round once to get both likenesses.His brother Laurence wrote the verses when some of them came out in book form,thirty years ago.Others have since come to light - chiefly drawn for children - and these now have their verses too.Warning: you may lose your sense of direction in this gallery. Reginald John Whistler(1905-1944).Worked as Rex Whistler.Born at Eltham,Kent, elder brother of glass engraver Laurence Whistler .His gifts were evident early; he studied for a year at the Royal Academy Schools,then moved to the Slade School of Fine Art (1922-26),where Professor Tonks admired and encouraged his work.After some small commissions,his chance came in 1926 when he was invited to design and paint mural decorations in the Tate Gallery Refreshment Room.'The Pursuit of Rare Meats',a lively Rococo architectural fantasy (inspired by the Temple Gardens of Stowe and Wilton),epitomises the style he was to make his own. Their success brought work and social popularity,and he became a prolific illustrator and designer.His most important book is 'Gulliver's Travels' Cresset Press,1935), illustrated with full plates, maps and head and tail pieces in fine pen and ink with colour washes on the larger plates applied by hand.The full-page illustrations have elaborate Baroque borders,at times almost overwhelming the inset drawings.The effect is superb,and Whistler's 'Gulliver' remains one of the great illustrated books of the 20thC.Other notable works include the much acclaimed 'New Forget-Me-Not' (1929) and 'Fairy Tales' (1935).All his work reflects his own personal charm and lively wit.As well as being one of the outstanding illustrators of his generation,Whistler promised to be a great and original stage designer; his work for ballet,plays and opera included The Rake's Progress,Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina, Fidelio and The Marriage of Figaro.In 1940,he volunteered for the Welsh Guards; he was killed on active service in 1944. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct,shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.JOHN MURRAY,1978., 5<

1978, ISBN: 9780719535741

Gebundene Ausgabe

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.Neat,ink previous owner inscrptn to front fep and price-clipped dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated upper wrap, reviews to rear wrap of author's previous… Mehr…

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn. FINE/FINE.Neat,ink previous owner inscrptn to front fep and price-clipped dw/dj.Colour pictorial illustrated upper wrap, reviews to rear wrap of author's previous book - 'How Green Was My Curate' with minimal shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges and no nicks or tears.Top+fore-edges clean,contents bright,tight and clean. Purple paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1- 185pp with b/w line illus/ cartoons by Maxine Rogers. The amusing adventures of a young curate in an idiosyncratic Welsh village at the close of the last War were first revealed in 'How Green Was My Curate'.Now, burdened with greater responsibility after the death of the Vicar,Fred Secombe discovers that the potential for accident and eccentricity among his parishioners and colleagues has by no means diminished. Bertie Owen,the Churchwarden,for example,marks the old Vicar's demise by cremating both his garage and car while burning leaves in the garden.Secombe finds himself arbitrating between the new incumbent who is determined to re-organise the parish and the parish committee, led by the irrepressible Bertie Owen,who are determined that he will do nothing of the kind.The Curate's problems are only compounded by his work-shy and accident-prone colleague,Charles.Culminating in an eventful performance of The Pirates of Penzance,'A Curate for all Seasons' proves to be another delightful source of anecdotes couched in warmth and humour. Please contact seller, rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1990., 5, [Stein & Day, New York NY,, 1967]. 8vo., First US Edition, on laid paper, with 10 plates on 8 and 17 maps in the text; original grey boards, terracotta cloth back lettered in gilt, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. With front panel of dustwrapper mounted on front endpapers. Enser, p.36 (recording the UK English edition)., [Stein & Day, New York NY, 1967], 0, The Sun Dial Press/Garden City, New York, 1940. hardcover, name on the first endpaper, dark red cloth boards and bookmark inside cover, 375 pages including index, 5 3/4 x 8 1/5 inches, very good book condition, no dust jacket. Reprint edition. Clean unmarked pages, slightly yellowed with age. Great reading or reference copy.ABFFF, Sun Dial Press, 1940, 3, Garden City, New York: Doubleday. 1969. First US printing. Hardcover. Black cloth. Inner margins of endpapers tanned from binding materials, yellowing to page edges, minor rubbing to spine ends, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has slightly sunned spine, VG otherwise. Man messes up nature on the California coast in the distant year 1973. Welsh author's first novel. ., Doubleday, 1969, 0, Newark Valley, NY: Steamchest Publications, 1995. items by/about: Steam; Gardening; Model Railroads; Rcharlie Mynhier (Build You Own locomotive), Chip Rosenblum (jigstones reviewed), Geoff Spenceley (Aster King George Steam; Gardening; Model Railroads; Ron Brown (new Wrightscale Porter), Mel Ridley (Meths Burners & Wicks). Charlie Mynhier (Build Your Own Boiler), O Scale Live Steam Switcher, & Much More..), Tug Gordon (merlin Mayflower Mods), David Pinniger (welsh Nuts & Black diamonds), Rob Kuhlman (Lathe-free locomotive), John Wenlock (Pot boilering), & Much More... 1st. Paperback. Near Fine. Illus. by B/W Illus. 4 vo. Magazine., Steamchest Publications, 1995, 4, Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. 6 x 9 in. Green cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Condition is VERY GOOD ; no shelf wear, covers very clean. Spine toned with titles invisible. Binding tight and text spotless, sides of text block foxed. Letters. Stax., Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924, 3, Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., 2.5, Texas A&M University Press, 2007-10-25. Paperback. New. 10x8x0. New Condition, Paperback book, Texas A&M University Press, 2007-10-25, 6, Knoxville, Tennessee: Mountaineer, Inc, 1941. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is tight. Pages clean, age-darkened. Wraps have edge wear, some scuffing and overall handling wear, postage stamp and cancellation mark on back along with small amount of writing. ; Contents: Welsh, "These Smokies." Lasley, "Watch North Carolina." Amick, "White Mountains." Walter, "Tennessee's Youngest Park." Cole, "Mountain Folk and Churches." Johnson, "Making a Garden of Tennessee." Lash, "Townsend of Tuckaleechee Cove." Gooch, "Skiing in the Great Smoky Mountains." Illustrated with black and white photographs of Tennessee mountains, especially the Great Smokies. ; 12.0" tall; 28 pages., Mountaineer, Inc, 1941, 2.5, The Saturday Magazine, Johh William Parker, London, 1844. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good Condition. Magazine/Periodical 8 pages, some marked. Approximately A4 size, with 2 woodcuts. Size: Small Folio. Item Type: Magazine/Periodical. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Saturday Magazine; Inventory No: 281378.., The Saturday Magazine, 1844, 3, New York, New York, U.S.A.: Macmillan Pub Co, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near Fine. Hardcover. 323 pps with index, illustrations. Beautifully illustrated guide to conserving water in your American landscape, whether it is a backyard flower garden or a proper vegetable patch. Near fine, tight copy in near fine, crisp dust jacket., Macmillan Pub Co, 1992, 4, publisher: Doubleday Doran & Company, Garden City, NY. Good Hardback Book. Red Cover with gold Swastika and Elephant logo. Spine cover torn. Partial tattered slipcase. [bx326] Tight spine, clean unmarked pages. 787 pages. Shows moderate use. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. A well-loved book, but there are plenty of readings left in this volume. Rudyard Kipling (1865 1936) was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children. He was born in Bombay, in the Bombay Presidency of British India, and was taken by his family to England when he was five years old. Kipling's poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If" (1910). 326, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926, 2.5, NY: Walker, 1977. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 116. A very good copy in little worn dj. Directions for growing adzuki beans, flageolets, kohlrabi, orach, Sicilian fennel, Welsh onion, dow gauk and many more., Walker, 1977, 0, Macmillan Pub Co, 1992-07-01. Hardcover. New. 8x5x0. New Condition, Hardcover Book, Macmillan Pub Co, 1992-07-01, 6, UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,ink gift presentation inscrptn to illustrated ffe,price-clip to one dw/dj inner flap,other unclipped.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated colour illustrated+ lettered design by Rex Whistler dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,publisher's original,pink cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped pink gilt caricature face vignetted boards front+rear,with sharp corners and cream illustrated/vignetted eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,48pp [unpaginated] includes 2 title-pages,25 b/w portrait caricatures (which can be viewed two ways - upright and upside down) all illus by Rex Whistler and text/verses by his brother,Laurence Whistler. Here is a book with two fronts,two backs,two introductions and two ways of being opened.It is a portrait gallery of 'characters',and you will find there are two ways of looking at each one. Rex Whistler drew them: his brother Laurence wrote their stories in verse. Although creatures of another age,they live on.Recently,more of his reversible faces have come to light - and now these have been given verses too. Here they all are for the first time together. However you put this book down it will lie face up,which is to say face down.And upside down is how it can never be slipped into a bookshelf. Rex Whistler practised surely the most economical method of portraiture ever devised.He made one set of features do for two characters - often characters with very little in common,like Henry VIII and poor Anne of Cleves. It may not have been economical of effort: he had to keep turning the page round and round. However,the reader has only to turn it round once to get both likenesses.His brother Laurence wrote the verses when some of them came out in book form,thirty years ago.Others have since come to light - chiefly drawn for children - and these now have their verses too.Warning: you may lose your sense of direction in this gallery. Reginald John Whistler(1905-1944).Worked as Rex Whistler.Born at Eltham,Kent, elder brother of glass engraver Laurence Whistler .His gifts were evident early; he studied for a year at the Royal Academy Schools,then moved to the Slade School of Fine Art (1922-26),where Professor Tonks admired and encouraged his work.After some small commissions,his chance came in 1926 when he was invited to design and paint mural decorations in the Tate Gallery Refreshment Room.'The Pursuit of Rare Meats',a lively Rococo architectural fantasy (inspired by the Temple Gardens of Stowe and Wilton),epitomises the style he was to make his own. Their success brought work and social popularity,and he became a prolific illustrator and designer.His most important book is 'Gulliver's Travels' Cresset Press,1935), illustrated with full plates, maps and head and tail pieces in fine pen and ink with colour washes on the larger plates applied by hand.The full-page illustrations have elaborate Baroque borders,at times almost overwhelming the inset drawings.The effect is superb,and Whistler's 'Gulliver' remains one of the great illustrated books of the 20thC.Other notable works include the much acclaimed 'New Forget-Me-Not' (1929) and 'Fairy Tales' (1935).All his work reflects his own personal charm and lively wit.As well as being one of the outstanding illustrators of his generation,Whistler promised to be a great and original stage designer; his work for ballet,plays and opera included The Rake's Progress,Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina, Fidelio and The Marriage of Figaro.In 1940,he volunteered for the Welsh Guards; he was killed on active service in 1944. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct,shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.JOHN MURRAY,1978., 5<

1978, ISBN: 9780719535741

London England: Bloomsbury/BBC. Hardback. V. Special Photography by Paul Barker. David Dimbleby leads us on a colourgul chronological journey through Britain's architectural landscap… Mehr…

London England: Bloomsbury/BBC. Hardback. V. Special Photography by Paul Barker. David Dimbleby leads us on a colourgul chronological journey through Britain's architectural landscapes: to towering fortresses, timber-framed barns, maginificrny palaces, railway viaducts, music halls, suburban homes and tower blocks. This very personal tour encompasses both the iconic and the curious. Among the many sites he vistis on his travels, imbleby climbs to the top of the light-flooded Ely Cathedral,. a looming vision of Norman conquest and domination; he explores Harvington Hall in Warwickshire, riddled with hidden passages to conceal Catholic priests; he rows across the glassy lakes at Stourhead in Wiltshire, whose Palladian temples echo the ancient world; he delves into Mancehster's network of sewers, constructed to flush away the polluted waters of disease; he is dazzled by the fairytale interior of the Granada Cinema in London's Tooting, built to bring motion pictures to the masses; and he takes a quizzical look at the Scottish parliament in Edinburgh, they symbol of devolution. Generously illustrated with specially commissioned photography and historic images, this book reveals how these structures originated in the experiences and beliefs of the British people, and how they hold the key to who we are. Illustrated. Illustrated laminated boards. 288 pp. .(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) May require ex . Fine. Decorative Illustrated Boards. First Edition. 1st Printing. 2007., Bloomsbury/BBC, 2007, 4, UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.Neat,ink gift presentation inscrptn to illustrated ffe,price-clip to one dw/dj inner flap,other unclipped.Bright,crisp,clean, glossy laminated colour illustrated+ lettered design by Rex Whistler dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine.Bright,clean,publisher's original,pink cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped pink gilt caricature face vignetted boards front+rear,with sharp corners and cream illustrated/vignetted eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,48pp [unpaginated] includes 2 title-pages,25 b/w portrait caricatures (which can be viewed two ways - upright and upside down) all illus by Rex Whistler and text/verses by his brother,Laurence Whistler. Here is a book with two fronts,two backs,two introductions and two ways of being opened.It is a portrait gallery of 'characters',and you will find there are two ways of looking at each one. Rex Whistler drew them: his brother Laurence wrote their stories in verse. Although creatures of another age,they live on.Recently,more of his reversible faces have come to light - and now these have been given verses too. Here they all are for the first time together. However you put this book down it will lie face up,which is to say face down.And upside down is how it can never be slipped into a bookshelf. Rex Whistler practised surely the most economical method of portraiture ever devised.He made one set of features do for two characters - often characters with very little in common,like Henry VIII and poor Anne of Cleves. It may not have been economical of effort: he had to keep turning the page round and round. However,the reader has only to turn it round once to get both likenesses.His brother Laurence wrote the verses when some of them came out in book form,thirty years ago.Others have since come to light - chiefly drawn for children - and these now have their verses too.Warning: you may lose your sense of direction in this gallery. Reginald John Whistler(1905-1944).Worked as Rex Whistler.Born at Eltham,Kent, elder brother of glass engraver Laurence Whistler .His gifts were evident early; he studied for a year at the Royal Academy Schools,then moved to the Slade School of Fine Art (1922-26),where Professor Tonks admired and encouraged his work.After some small commissions,his chance came in 1926 when he was invited to design and paint mural decorations in the Tate Gallery Refreshment Room.'The Pursuit of Rare Meats',a lively Rococo architectural fantasy (inspired by the Temple Gardens of Stowe and Wilton),epitomises the style he was to make his own. Their success brought work and social popularity,and he became a prolific illustrator and designer.His most important book is 'Gulliver's Travels' Cresset Press,1935), illustrated with full plates, maps and head and tail pieces in fine pen and ink with colour washes on the larger plates applied by hand.The full-page illustrations have elaborate Baroque borders,at times almost overwhelming the inset drawings.The effect is superb,and Whistler's 'Gulliver' remains one of the great illustrated books of the 20thC.Other notable works include the much acclaimed 'New Forget-Me-Not' (1929) and 'Fairy Tales' (1935).All his work reflects his own personal charm and lively wit.As well as being one of the outstanding illustrators of his generation,Whistler promised to be a great and original stage designer; his work for ballet,plays and opera included The Rake's Progress,Laurence Housman's Victoria Regina, Fidelio and The Marriage of Figaro.In 1940,he volunteered for the Welsh Guards; he was killed on active service in 1944. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct,shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.JOHN MURRAY,1978., 5<

1978, ISBN: 0719535743

[EAN: 9780719535741], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 18.0], [PU: John Murray, London], Jacket, jacket is shelf rubbed and creased. edge wear on boards. light foxing and marks. no inscript… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780719535741], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [SC: 18.0], [PU: John Murray, London], Jacket, jacket is shelf rubbed and creased. edge wear on boards. light foxing and marks. no inscriptions. well bound. fairy good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services., Books<

1978, ISBN: 9780719535741

John Murray, London, 1978. Hardcover. Good/Good. jacket is shelf rubbed and creased. edge wear on boards. light foxing and marks. no inscriptions. well bound. fairy good copy.[SK]. Ou… Mehr…

John Murray, London, 1978. Hardcover. Good/Good. jacket is shelf rubbed and creased. edge wear on boards. light foxing and marks. no inscriptions. well bound. fairy good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services., John Murray, London, 1978, 2.5<