Sir david low (11 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Good. Magazine. Printed wrappers. Octavo. 59pp. Rubbing, edgewear, and a long tear on the rear panel, good. This issue features Hugh MacDiarmid, Sydney Goodsir Smith, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Naomi Mitchison, Douglas Young, A.V. Stuart, Alexander Buist, William Kean Seymour, David Low, C. Day Lewis, Sir Francis Meynell, Canon Adam Fox, John Smith, Lady Margaret Sackville, Vernon Scannell, and Margaret Stanley-Wrench. Additional contributors include Gilbert Thomas, Paul Selver, Ilko Iliev, Paula Nelson, Phyllis M. Scott, Canon Adam Fox, Mary Field, Rita Spurr, M. Shand Smith, Evelyn D. Bangay, Stephen Graham, Kathleen Valmai Richardson, Joan Forman, Geoffrey Johnson, Geoggrey Dearmer, Herbert Palmer, Robert Armstrong, and Kennedy Williamson.…

Zustand: Very Good. 7 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: A4 Size. Category: History Today; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Hardcover. 191 p.; 12 cartoons (illustrating parables of Jesus retold in English settings); 22 cm. Good brown back under creased, lt. dampstained illus. tan boards. Sir David Low, 1891-1963 (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 4to. 128 pp. Profusely illustrated, with a frontis & 90 black and white illustrations. A fine copy in the scarce unclipped dust wrapper. Both book and the wrapper are in remarkable condition A fine monograph on the work of David Low who was cartoonist for the Evening Standard. He had made his name in the period running up to the second world war, but during the war he became a central part of the war effort with his devastating cartoons of the strutting Hitler and the Axis leaders. ART REFERENCE CARICATURE ART REFERENCE.…

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. He begins by acknowledging Armstrong's letter: 'I assure your Committee that I appreciate the honour they do me by asking me to become a Vice-President of the Golders Green Literary Society.' He has for some time felt that in the interest of his health he must 'enter no fresh engagements for a while', and therefore does not feel 'able to accept even this one, which I am sure would be pleasanter than most'. He ends by offering his 'sincere regrets'.…

1p., 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged and creased. On behalf of himself and his wife Madeline he writes: 'Like everybody that knew Robert we shall miss him keenly - For me the world will be a poorer place. Words don't come easily to me to express my sorrow.'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. German Text. Fine condition, quarto, yellow boards, in fine dust wrapper, illustrated, 238 pages. [QP]. LOW (Low, Sir David 1891 - 1963) (illustrator).

Zustand: Good. Lithographic illustration. 33 x 23 cm (sheet). Very Good, toning along sheet edges.Provenance: From the collection of the late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

4pp., 4to. Bifolium on card. In good condition, lightly-aged. A bold and characteristic cartoon by Low, depicting the evening's chairman. The central two pages, under the heading 'LADIES' NIGHT', give a humorous description of the planned celebrations, beginning: 'The June Meeting of the Sette is nominally dedicated to the graces of feminine society. Actually, it is an overt act of self glorification on the part of the individual members of the Sette.' Among those referred to are: 'the Master of Ceremonies, Bro. S. K. Glanville (Ushabti)', 'Bro. Vyvyan Holland (Idler)', 'Bro J. G. Lockhart (Investigator)', 'Bro. Norman Birkett, K.C. (Listener) and Bro. The Hon. Francis Pakenham (Cartwright)', and 'the Vice-President, Bro. N. V. C. Turner (Philanderer)'. The back page carries the menu, including 'Crème Rossolnick', 'Suprême de Chapon Savoy' and 'Coeur de Laitue'.…

Printed on one side of a piece of wove paper, folded twice to make a card of 4pp., 4to. In good condition, lightly-aged and spotted. Low's 10 x 8.5 cm illustration is on the cover, and is rather uncharacteristic in its lightness of touch. Nor is the layout of the cover in the usual 'Sette' style, rather harking forwards to the 1940s. Cover states: 'His Oddshippe Sir Harry Trelawney Eve (Chaplain) in ye Chair'. The central pages carry a long humorous description of the proposed entertainments, with contributions by John Hassall, Vyvyan Holland, Rupert Gould, 'and there is grave danger of Brother RALPH STRAUS Scribbler airing one of his perennial grievances'. The back cover carries the menu, beginning with 'Melon Rafraichi' and ending with 'Baisers de Dames'. No other copy traced, either on COPAC or on OCLC WorldCat. See Image. …

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The present item is a nice piece of printed ephemera relating to the man described in his Guardian obituary as 'the dominant cartoonist of the western world'. In 1937 Goebbels had told Lord Halifax that Low's cartoons were harming Anglo-German relations, and after the war it was revealed that his name was in the 'black book' of individuals to be 'liquidated' on German conquest of Britain. In good condition, lightly aged.Small 4to bifolium printed in brown ink on thick wove paper. The illustration depicts a worried white terrier with black ears and spot, caught ripping up a christmas card with image of father christmas. The printed text inside the card reads: 'Christmas Greetings / from / Mr. and Mrs. David Low. / 25, Helenslea Avenue, / N. W. 11.'.…