Search Results: Authors starting with R from GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS (PBFA)

A Signed Limited Edition. Number 467 of a limited edition of 560 large-paper copies numbered and signed by the illustrator. Large quarto, original vellum, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and cover gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, dark green pictorial endpapers, ties sympathetically replaced by the bindery of George Bayntun, tipped in colour frontispiece and 23 plates mounted on green papers with printed tissue-guards, 12 tinted plates, 66 illustrations within the text. Published by J. M. Dent & Co. (London), 1907.

Some occasional minor browning, a small tear to the upper right corner of the half title page expertly and discreetly repair by the bindery of George Bayntun, front panel a little bowed. A near fine copy.

This work is the first signed limited edition of Arthur Rackham's illustrated edition of Barham's Ingoldsby Legends. It was originally published in 1898, however for 1907 it was revised, so that "greater prominence could be given to the illustrations by better and larger… Read More

A Signed Limited Edition; 1 of 1,000 copies Signed and Numbered by the Author. A Single folded sheet, 4 pp. Published by John Rebus Limited (Edinburgh), 2005.
Some light creasing; else a fine example.
COPAC locates just two Institutional holdings at the National Library Of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh.
The short story revolves around Rankin's experience when the G8 Summit was held in Scotland in July 2005. The story was included in Rankin's short story collection published in 2015 entitled "The Beat Goes On". The proceeds from the initial sale of this work were donated to SNIP, a parent-led voluntary organisation based at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh.
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London - Summer Fashions for 1836.
A large aquatint with bright contemporary hand-colouring, beautifully mounted, framed and glazed, ready for presentation, 435 x 590 mm. Published by Benjamin Read (London and Broad Way, New York), 1836.
A truly stunning print, in fine condition, which would enhance the appearance of any room.
Benjamin Read was a professional tailor and demonstrated savvy business acumen by creating high quality prints of his stock, enabling the effective promotion of his business. Read's Regency fashion prints were in essence a highly successful advertisement, and by setting his subjects in fashionable venues, in this case the Colosseum in Regent's Park, he was able to nurture the idea of an association between his tailoring and high society.
According to Ralph Hyde, Read was initially inspired by a yearly print created by George Cruikshank, demonstrating the greatest offences against fashion at the time. Read first commissioned George Cruikshank's brother, Robert Cruikshank, however… Read More

First Edition. 4to (25*19cm), pp. 51, [3, Publisher's Advertisements], Publisher's cloth-backed boards, paper label to spine, preserved in burgundy morocco drop-back box. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press (Richmond), 1923.
A signed presentation copy from the Author to Jacob Kramer. Inscribed by the Author to the front free endpaper. Additionally inscribed by the Author with manuscript verses below, those too initialled, being the first appearance of this poem which was published by Faber & Faber in 1935 and entitled 'Night Negation', one of a selection from "Poems 1914 - 1934" by Read. The inscription reads:
"'For Jacob Kramer / Herbert Read / 26.x.1930Trees / have held these flecks of light / these brittle stars that in the night / flash / on the unfolding fan of spaceBlue fans / that bring me peace / and nerves that cease / to feel / the torture of day's leaseOf life and lust. O day that hurt / the heart and pillaged the short / and shattered frame of good report.O noon… Read More

First Edition. 8vo., Publisher's blue cloth, spine lettered in black, dust jacket; priced at 5 shillings, a small Foyles Bookseller's sticker to the front pastedown, pp. 219; plus 24 pp. of Publisher's ads. Published by Constable (London), 1934.
Expert retouches and restorations to spine, upper edge, and joints, a very slight shelf lean, three tiny tears to page edges of the endpapers and half title page. An excellent and sharp example. Near fine.
"Voyage in the Dark is something more terrible, more beautiful and more fiercely pitiful than any Jean Rhys has yet written. The book describes eighteen months in the life of a chorus girl - eighteen months during which she knows squalor, luxury, love, happiness, misery and, at the end, desperate pain. Told in the first person, the story of the struggles, forlorn gaiety and weary courage of Anna Morgan was the almost unbearable poignancy of truth unflinchingly described. The effect of being right inside the mind of this lonely girl is heightened by the… Read More

An original hand-coloured lithograph for John Gould's Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73.
Beautifully mounted, glazed and framed ready for presentation. 69 * 57 cm.
In fine condition.
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An original hand-coloured lithograph for John Gould's Birds of Australia, 1869. This Lithograph illustrates a male, female and three young Pardalotus Striatus, found in New South Wales and Western Australia at Swan River.
Beautifully mounted, glazed and framed ready for presentation. 50 * 70 cm.
A couple of barley imperceptible spots, otherwise in fine condition.
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An original hand-coloured lithograph for John Gould's Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73.
Beautifully mounted, glazed and framed ready for presentation. 50 * 70 cm.
In fine condition.
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An original hand-coloured lithograph for John Gould's Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73.
Beautifully mounted, glazed and framed ready for presentation. 69 * 57 cm.
In fine condition.
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An original hand-coloured lithograph for John Gould's Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73.
Beautifully mounted, glazed and framed ready for presentation. 69 * 57 cm.
In fine condition.
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An original hand-coloured lithograph for John Gould's Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73.
Beautifully mounted, glazed and framed ready for presentation. 50 * 70 cm.
In fine condition.
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An original hand-coloured lithograph for John Gould's Birds of Great Britain, 1862-73.
Beautifully mounted, glazed and framed ready for presentation. 50 * 70 cm.
There is a light pencil note indicating this is the "Red-throated Bluebreast", a couple of very minor chips to the frame, otherwise in fine condition.
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