Parris te t e (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Very good blue boards, gilt text and banding on spine. DJ with only slight wear (unclipped). No inscriptions (B/s S).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. First Edition. Inscribed & signed by the author. 8vo(5.5 x 8.75 in.). Slim novella set in the days of colonialism in Jamaica. Navy cloth, stamped gilt titling on spine. No stains, no marks. Small dent along top edge. End pages have residue from tape affixed to a removed old jacket cover. Binding is tight, pages are clean. Jacket has provocative painting extending front to rear, no credit given. On the front free end-page has dedicated the book "To Marie-Rose ______, with Love from Terry (Parris). " Included with the book is a personal note from Parris to the dedicatee. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Clean blue bds with gilt title to spine. pages lightly and evenly browning. Interior very good and clean. Price clipped dustjacket in Very Good condition.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. The very scarce first edition of this volume of poetry by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington, accompanied by engraved plates from E. T. Parris. A charming and very scarce first edition of this work, in which twelve poems from Lady Blessington, all taking their title from the name of a gemstone, are accompanied by beautifully engraved plates from Edmund Thomas Parris, an English history, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer.Illustrated with an engraved title page, and twelve steel-engraved plates, each retaining their original tissue guard. Collated, complete.The Countess of Blessington was well-known as a contributor of drawing-room publications of this sort, frequently ornamented with steel engraved plates. She was also an acquaintance of Lord Byron in Genoa, and published a book about her conversations with him. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, spotting and discolouration to boards. Small split in cloth to tail of rear joint. Front hinge starting, with boards slightly tender. Internally, tail of title page detaching, otherwise firmly bound. Pages bright, with light spotting to page and plate perimeters. Very Good. T. E. Parris (illustrator). book.…