Search Results: Authors starting with A from Bard's Bookshelf

London: J. M. Dent & Co. / and Sons Limited, 1897. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. W. B. Macdougall. The pair of volumes on Germanic heroic legend by partners Armour & Macdougall. Each work is translated by Margaret Armour and illustrated throughout by William B. MacDougall. The 1897 Nibelung caught Macdougall near the peak of his artistic output, while the much later published Gudrun (1928) is a little distance from that peak. NIBELUNG: largely a translation of Simrock's arrangement of the mediaeval text, with input from Bartsch and Niendorf, in plain prose rendering so as to be as near as possible to the original. Bound in brown cloth boards, toned, over lighter blue cloth spine, darkened and re-backed. Bookplate of Donald & Norah Van Den Bergh central to front pastedown. All edges untrimmed. Contents generally clean, but for a little browning towards edges & some scattered foxing. Structurally sound with edgewear. Good. GUDRUN: Armour likens Nibelung & Gudrun to Iliad… Read More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1913. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. Kay Nielsen. Kay Nielsen's first illustrated work, 'In Powder and Crinoline - Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch', published in 1913 by Hodder and Stoughton in London. Here, the limited deluxe edition, issued in full green gilt-decorated vellum, this being number 155 of 500 copies and signed by Kay Nielsen on limitation page. CONDITION: Collated complete with 26 tipped-in colour plates and captioned tissue-guards, 2 more plates than are provided in the standard trade edition. Green vellum boards a little bowed, hinges holding firmly. Decorated endpapers and some additional vignettes & decorations throughout. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Text-block structurally sound. Foxing to endpapers, a little age-toning towards page edges, but generally clean throughout. Housed in re moveable plastic sleeve. 31.8cm tall - a large & heavy volume; international orders may incur additional shipping costs.

London: Arthur H. Stockwell, LTD., 1926. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good Plus. Cecile Walton. Undated, but understood to be 1926. Scarce volume of children's poetry charmingly illustrated by Cecile Walton. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author behind title-page; 'Mr and Mrs Bond, with best wishes from Austin Priestman.' Distinctive gilt binding decoration, endpaper illustrations and black & white imagery throughout by Cecil Walton, whose principal work was a handsome volume of Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales some 13 years earlier. CONDITION: Minor edge-wear, spine a little skewed, illustrated endpapers starting at hinges but holding firm. Light foxing to first & last few leaves. Gilt slightly dulled. Collated complete. 96pp. 19.4cm tall. Housed in removable plastic sleeve. [Please let us know in advance if inspection on-site is required.]