A Bird-Painter's Sketch Book
by Philip Rickman
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket, as Issued
- Seller
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Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
Item Price
£138.42£103.82
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About This Item
London/NY: Eyre and Spottiswoode/Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. hardcover, light blue cloth with full vellum backstrip, 3/4 style with gilt lettering to spine. top edge gilt., cloth has light wear to corners and edges, some uneven fading, one water stain to back cover at bottom. vellum has some light brown mottling. a bit of waviness to top/bottom edges of first/last few sheets. some faint spotting to fore-edge. book has been carefully cleaned. no writing or owner markings. sturdy binding and hinges.; "this edition, numbered and signed by the author, is limited to one hundred and twenty-five copies..." this is number 45 and signed below by rickman in pencil. under the frontispiece is an original pencil sketch, initialed by rickman, of 2 ducks on the wing over a patch of reeds.; 150pp., 11 color plates, 23 b/w plates.; scarce thus.. Signed by Author. First Edition - Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket, as Issued. Illus. by Philip Rickman. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.
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- Bookseller
- art longwood books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12998
- Title
- A Bird-Painter's Sketch Book
- Author
- Philip Rickman
- Illustrator
- Philip Rickman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition - Limited
- Publisher
- Eyre and Spottiswoode/Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- London/NY
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- Birds and Art.; Bird Illustrations.; Signed Books.; Books with Original Drawings.
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
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Gloucester, Massachusetts
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- Gilt
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Vellum
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- Edges
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- Folio
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