The Bookplate Designs of Austin Osman Spare
by Ansell, Robert
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0951417606
- ISBN 13
- 9780951417607
- Seller
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Sandy, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Billingshurst: The Bookplate Society in association with The Keridwen Press, 1988. 1st edition. Paperback. Octavo (21 x 15 cm). 35 pages, 23 of which are b&w reproductions of the bookplates. (Also a b&w photograph of the artist as a frontispiece.) Part of a limited run of 500 copies, 140 of which were numbered and signed by the author. This is copy number 75: the number is inked on the reverse of the title page, the signature on the Introduction page that follows it. Very Good in Good jacket. Text a little shelf-soiled in its bottom corner, near the fore-edge. Jacket has faded around the spine, which is also a bit tanned at its foot.
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- Bookseller
- Alex Richardson (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1645
- Title
- The Bookplate Designs of Austin Osman Spare
- Author
- Ansell, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0951417606
- ISBN 13
- 9780951417607
- Publisher
- The Bookplate Society in association with The Keridwen Press
- Place of Publication
- Billingshurst
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Art, Illustration, Graphic, Design, Bibliography, Book, Bookplates, Bookplate, Occult, Occultism, Black, Magic
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art; Esoterica; Books about Books; Signed Books;
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- Title Page
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- Bookplate
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