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B. T. Batsford, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 79 pages. Illustrative beige jacket with black lettering over red cloth. Illustrated by Rex Whistler. B&W and colour illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Minor thumb-marking present throughout. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed binding threads, but binding remains firm. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with light sunning to spine and board edges. Small white stains, soiling and few other marks across the boards. Crushing to spine ends. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear, with small (approx. 3cm) tears, chips and loss to edges and corners. Notable tanning to spine, with blue paint stains and soiling across the DJ.

B. T. Batsford, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 79 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Front free endpaper is removed. Pencil inscription to front pastedown. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. White marks overall.

London: Batsford , 1942. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Very Good/Poor. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Rex Whistler. First edition first printing small quarto Hardback. 80 pp.Illustrated in colour and black and white by Rex Whistler Near Very Good condition (corners rubbed). The front illustrated panel of the dust jacket has been glued to the inside cover. Previous owner's gift inscription on front free end paper.

Solstice Productions, 1967-11-30. First Solstice Productions Editi. hardcover. Very Good/Good Jacket. 25 to 30 cm tall, Quarto, (4to). Rex Whistler. Illustrated in colour and monochrome by Rex Whistler. First Solstice Productions Edition Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

London, Batsford, No date (1942) 1st. Large Hardback, Size 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Bound in original red cloth with gilt to front and spine, in illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW edges rubbed with some small tears, spine tanned, some darkening and handling marks. In protective sleeve.) Cloth clean, some light foxing to endpapers, Two nice private bookplates on front endpapers. Loosely laid original order form. Some minor handling marks to pages else a very clean and tight copy. 80pp, 22 text ills by Rex Whistler (2 colour, some full-page). A short story recounting with acerbic wit, and appropriate accompanying illustrations by Rex Whistler, the last days of Uptake, a fictional eighteenth century country house of the grandest kind, occupied by two elderly aristocratic sisters and by their even older servants.

London: B T Batsford, 1942. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Rex Whistler. ND. [1942 - WorldCat]. Harcourt-Smith's tale of a decaying stately home and its occupants is much enhanced by Whistler's illustrations. In good internal order throughout. Small mark to title page and one small corner fold, but otherwise all is clean and bright. Former owner's details neatly to fep. Attractive bookplate of Constance Whitehead to front pastedown. Red cloth is a little marked and rather worn to edges. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 4to. 80pp

BATSFORD. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. B.T. Batsford undated edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket.

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1942. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 10" by 7.5". Rex Whistler. A smart copy of this architectural fantasy by English writer and producer, Simon Harcourt-Smith, with illustrations throughout. Illustrated throughout with twenty pen-and-wash drawings both in-text and full-pages images, two of which are in colour. An architectural fantasy around a great Palladian mansion and the extravagances and conceits of its lay-out and garden. Written by Simon Harcourt-Smith, an English author and producer. Illustrated by Reginald John "Rex" Whistler, a British artist who painted murals and society portraits. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor shelf wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is sound with light shelf wear and the odd small mark to the panels. Sunning to the spine. A 2" closed tear to the head of the front panel has been sympathetically repaired with tape to the internal side, with a 3"… Read More

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1st edition thus. Cloth. Near Fine/Good. Rex Whistler. Undated, circa 1942. A Near Fine book in a Good dust jacket. 4to., 79 pp., with illustrations by Whistler, 2 in color. Bound in publishers red cloth in tan illustrated dust jacket, not price clipped. Jacket has overall soiling and is toned, spine is darkened, minor chipping along top. Interior pages clean and unmarked with only a light age toning. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

B.T. Batsford LTD, 1942. First edition (1942.) Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo with 80 pages. The book is in good condition with shelf wear and rubbing to edges of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Interior is clean and tight. The dust jacket is in good condition with a couple of small tears, white tape reinforcement to verso of dust jacket and slight rubbing to edges. Beautifully illustrated! "..the most sublime book .. illustrated by Rex Whistler!" Tan spine/Black text. #032513. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illus. by Rex Whistler. 8vo.

London: Batsford, 1942, 1942. Limited edition, one of 100 copies signed by the author and by the illustrator Rex Whistler. 4to; eighty pp.; twenty-two illustrations by Rex Whistler, with two in color. Owner's name, else a very good copy in original quarter leather with gilt backstrip. A country house story. (Whistler 499).