Search Results: Authors starting with B from Abbey Bookshop

London: Penguin Books, 1947. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Oblong 8vo., original green printed wrappers, with 32 plates on 16 leaves, half of them in colour. Text by James Thrall Soby.

London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1926. First edition. Very Good +. WADSWORTH (Edward). Sm. folio, original white buckram spine, orange cloth boards, slipcase with lettering piece. A beautiful production printed at the Curwen Press, with seventeen copperplate engravings of ships and barges, all but one hand-coloured by the author, an engraved title page and a few hand-coloured engraved vignttes in the text. One of 450 numbered copies, this being no. 120. Slipcase a little worn at extremities, slight glue staining to edge of upper board

Paris: Maresq et Cie, 1846. Nouvelle edition. Very Good. Large 8vo., finely bound in late nineteenth-century green morocco overlaid with the Greek mask of comedy in black morocco, detailed in gilt, which spreads across the spine to the lower board, binding unsigned, illustrated with twelve plates. Moliere's complete works in an unusual and very attractive French fine binding. pages lightly foxed and browned throughout, spine and top edge of lower board faded

London, New York, etc.: Cassell and Company, [c. 1920]. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 4to., original illustrated boards, green cloth spine, with a large number of pictures in colour and in black and white. binding lightly worn, a few childish scribbles and colourings-in, binding all but detached from bookblock

New York: The World Publishing Company, 1969. First American edition. Near Fine/very good. 4to., original pictorial boards, dust jacket, richly illustrated. A wonderfully inventive children's book by the Italian artist and designer, Munari. dust jacket price-clipped and lightly stained in places, long closed tear repaired with scotch, small scuff to corner of half-title