Search Results: Authors starting with I from Neil Pearson Rare Books

New York: Viking Press, 1978. Oblong 4to, pp. 63. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. Boards a little bowed (as is often the case with this title), otherwise a fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Drawings by Leonard Baskin accompanying text throughout. First US edition.

London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1885. 8vo, pp. 164. Three-quarter marbled boards, red title and date labels to calf spine, decorated with hunting images in gilt between raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A little scuffing to board edges, very light wear to head of spine, but a very well preserved, tightly bound copy. Nine plates, with smaller illustrations at beginnings and ends of chapters, all by Georgina Bowers. First edition. A volume of anonymous sporting tales, largely notable for the presence of the work of the Victorian comic illustrator Georgina Bowers [1836-1912], one of the first female professionals in the field -- hence the use of only her initial in her title page credit. Bowers was a regular contributor to Punch of material of this kind, but also wrote and illustrated her own comic productions, including Hollybush Hall (1870), Idyls of the Rink (1877) and Leaves From A Hunting Journal (1880). An excellent copy.

London: John Murray, 1980. Small 8vo, pp. 64. Original green boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine, unread copy in a dustwrapper with some sunning to the spine, but which is otherwise fine. Illustrated throughout with line drawings by John Piper. First trade edition, first issue. An edition of 100 copies signed by both author and artist was also issued. Following the discovery that seven lines were missing from the poem Bristol and Clifton and sixty-four from Sunday Afternoon Service in St. Enodoc Church, Cornwall (as well as at least seven other oversights in proof-reading), this edition was withdrawn immediately on publication in October 1980 and destroyed. The corrected and repaginated 'first' edition appeared in March 1981. Light sunning to the spine apart, a fine copy.

London: M. & J. Hobbs/Michael Joseph, 1976. 8vo, pp. 144. Original black boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Yellow illustrated endpapers. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, the spine a little faded and with a single 3mm scuff to its centre. Line drawings throughout by 'Anybody and Peter Sellers'. First edition. PETER SELLERS' COPY, LENGTHILY INSCRIBED TO HIM BY CO-AUTHOR JACK HOBBS: 'To Peter, with much affection from the co-writer, co-publisher and (sometimes) co-interrupter which he didn't mean to be and this copy is the first off the press -- and long may you sail in her! Jack Hobbs April 1976 (see page 6) [inscription continues on p.6] and I was only marginally over the limit -- and I'd had a hard day -- and let's face it -- who hasn't! AND!!! "Can we have dinner before you go to Munich???" [doodled self-portrait with speech bubble] PHONE Walton-on-Thames either 21267 or 21126 J.' (Sellers was due to fly to Bavaria to film the castle sequences for The Pink Panther… Read More

London: Turret Books, 1981. Single folded stiff card, title and publisher's logo to front panel. A fine copy. Line illustration by Ralph Steadman. First edition.

London: C. W. Beaumont, 1926. Large 8vo, pp. 156. Original illustrated boards, vellum spine lettered in gilt. Pages uncut. Light spotting to endpapers, boards browned, spine ends a little bumped and two small splashes to spine itself. Five hand-coloured illustrations, and with monochrome illustrations throughout. First edition, no. 25 of 325 copies published by the author. With a preface by Sacheverell Sitwell to whom, with his brother Osbert, the book is dedicated., Cyril Beaumont was one of the pre-eminent dance historians of the twentieth century. He published this book from his Charing Cross Road bookshop which, from 1910 until his death in 1976, specialised in all things dance. A life of Beaumont, by Kathrine Sorley Walker, was published in 2006.

London: Faber, 1955. 4to, pp. 24. Original illustrated stiff paper wrappers, overlaid with an illustrated dustwrapper, the whole protected by a (possibly original) detachable mylar wrapper. A near fine, very well preserved copy. 10 colour plates of Dufy's work, 9 printed directly on to the page, the first tipped in. First edition. INSCRIBED BY ART HISTORIAN PIERRE COURTHION TO SIR COLIN ANDERSON AND HIS WIFE: 'A Sir Colin et Lady Anderson, pour les remercier de leur charmante reception à Hampstead, en très cordial hommage Pierre Courthion'. Sumptuous brochure, published to accompany the Dufy exhibition staged at the Faber Gallery in London in 1955. Sir Colin Anderson was a shipping magnate and lifelong patron of the arts. Chairman of the Tate Gallery from 1960 to 1967, Director of the Royal Opera House, Trustee of the National Gallery and Provost of the Royal College of Art. He was an avid collector of Art Nouveau, and an early champion of both Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud (who drew a portrait… Read More