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London: Max Reinhardt. Good. Hardcover. 1953. First Edition. 138 pages. Dj chipped and worn. Price clipped<br> .
Tittivulus, Or, the Verbiage Collector by Ayrton, Michael - 1953
by Ayrton, Michael
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Tittivulus, Or, the Verbiage Collector
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London: Max Reinhardt. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Faint foxing to front endpapers and . page tops, jacket rubbed at corners and spine.. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Red cloth. Bibliography. The late English artist Michael Ayrton offers an illustrated satire about a minor demon who "was given the dreary and thankless task of collecting in sacks all the negligences, pomposities and vanities of utterance throughout the world". Needless to say, his task grows in direct correlation to the advance of civilization. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 138 pages .
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- Publisher Max Reinhardt
- Place of Publication London
- Date Published 1953
- Keywords Illustrated Books, Demons Fiction
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Tittivulus or, the verbiage collector
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Tittivulus or The Verbiage Collector
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London:: Max Reinhardt,. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. B001DYFBOM . Illustrated by the author. First edition. Very good in a good (large chip at the base of the rear panel, minor edge wear), price clipped dust jacket. .
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London: Max Reinhardt, 1953. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st edition, clipped d/j (some chipping, in protective sleeve); blue cloth boards, blue impressed cover design and spine titling clean; text block firm, pages unmarked. Owner's neat inscription ffep. 8vo: crown (200 x 140 / 8"" x 5_""). Michael Ayrton (1921-1975) was an English artist and writer, renowned as a painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer, and also as a critic, broadcaster and novelist. His varied output of sculptures, illustrations, poems and stories reveals an obsession with flight, myths, mirrors and mazes. He also wrote and illustrated Tittivulus or the Verbiage Collector, an account of the efforts of a minor devil to collect idle words.
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London: Max Reinhardt. The author has signed the illustration facing the title page and inscribed to book to John on the front free endpaper. Minor wear and natural ageing only; dust jacket not price-clipped, protected by a removeable cover. An account of the efforts of a minor devil to collect idle words. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Very Good. Hardcover. First UK Edition, First Printing. 1953.
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