Verlag: Loyola University Press, 1985
ISBN 10: 082940516X ISBN 13: 9780829405163
Anbieter: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. Reprint. Hardcover. Brown quarter cloth cover with beige paper. Oblong. Frontispiece. Illustrated. 114pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Copy is new. Full refund if not satisfied. FROM THE DUST JACKET: "G.K. Chesterton first came to notice as a flamboyant, swordstick-toting journalist in the heyday of London's 'Fleet Street; during the long golden afternoon of late Victorian England. Between the two world wars, he even published his own 'journal of opinion,' G. K.'s Weekly. he was also a novelist, critic, playwright, poet, polemicist, humorist, and debater of note. But he had originally been trained as an artist and illustrator, and he went through life throwing off sketches, cartoons, and chalk drawings like so many petals from some mad lover's gigantic daisy. He doodled as he wrote, and he scribbled all over his drawings - on menus, napkins, tablecloths, and even the wallpaper. The Art of G.K. Chesterton, therefore, is a fitting anniversary re-introduction of this warm, witty, wild, and wonderful giant to a new generation. Biographer Alzina Stone Dale has penned a brief but galloping romp through his Catherine-wheel career, and the volume is filled with heretofore unpublished sketches, cartoons, chalk drawings and Chestertonian doodlings from the Marion E. Wade Collection at Wheaton College Library. Just as G.K.C. himself might have done it.".
Verlag: Loyola University Press C1986, Chicago, 1985
ISBN 10: 082940516X ISBN 13: 9780829405163
Anbieter: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. G.K. Chesterton (illustrator). First Edition. FIRST EDITION. CHICAGO : 1985. Hardback. Illustrated; colour frontispiece and GKC drawings throughout. Original brown cloth spine, cream paper-covered boards. Signature of Chesterton to front cover. No owner name or internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. Minor wear only. NEAR FINE in like jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. Format is 10 1/2" by 7 3/4, A study of GKC as an artist and illustrator. A nice copy. (xv), 114 pages. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936).
Verlag: Loyola University Press, 1985
ISBN 10: 082940516X ISBN 13: 9780829405163
Anbieter: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, USA
hardcover. Zustand: New. In shrink wrap! Looks like an interesting title!.