It Never Dies: A Collection of Notes and Essays, 1940-1946 by John Farleigh - 1946

London: Sylvan Press, 1946. Second Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated second impression of this fine collection of musings and essays on wood-engraving, craftsmanship, and the artist's life. Chapters on art education, wood-engraving, painting, artist exhibitions. Includes essays on painting, textile design, book production, wood engraving, and fine crafts. Handsomely produced in light gray linen cloth over boards, stamped reproduction of a design to front cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing moderate wear and some chipping along top edge, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Nine half-tones, 14 line drawings, and 11 wood engravings. [5], 6-97 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Sylvan Press, 1946. Hardcover. Good. 1946. First Edition. 97 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions to front free endpaper and rear pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends.

London: Sylvan Press, 1946. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gray cloth, front cover device and spine panel lettering in red. Former owner's signature/date inked on upper front flyleaf, text block edges a bit toned by age. Dust jacket shows approx. 3" x 1 3/4" area of loss to top front corner, loss along bottom rear edge, closed tear on rear panel, other chipping/soiling, compromised, now in mylar. 1st edition, 1st ptg..

London: Sylvan Press Ltd, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Plate Illustrations. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Mylar cover.

London : Sylvan Press , 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 97 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates 23 cm. Subjects: Farleigh, John 1900-1965. Wood-engraving 20th century England. Genre: Biography. Language: English.

London: Sylvan Press, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9" by 5.5". John Farleigh. A first edition copy of this work on the arts by wood-engraver John Farleigh. John Farleigh was an English wood-engraver who is known for illustrating George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Search for God and The Man Who Died by D. H. Lawrence. This volume contains a collection of essays and lectures on painting, textile design craftsmanship and book production. With nine plates, fourteen line drawings and eleven wood engravings. Collated, complete. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is smart with some chipping to the extremities and head and tail of the spine, some marks to the wraps. Fine