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BOOK COVERS

BOARDS AND JACKETS

 

 

ONE OF A SERIES

 

THE LADYBIRD BOOKS
FOULSHAM'S POCKET LIBRARY
HEATH'S BOOKS ON COOKING Edward Bawden covers and titlepages
BBC YEAR BOOKS
WARNE RECREATION BOOKS 3 images
UPL, HOW TO DO IT BOOKS 3 images
VIRGINIA WOOLF BOOK JACKETS
RUSSIAN LITERARY LIBRARY (6 of 7 volumes) 1945-7
TARZAN (various editions) and AZAN
INSEL VERLAG PICTURE BOOKS
NEW EXCURSIONS IN POETRY, MULLER LONDON
SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY GALLERY ONE
  SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY GALLERY TWO
WHITE CIRCLE CRIME BOOKS
SOTHEBY'S SALE CATALOGUE Book Sale 2001 , jackets and illustrations

 

POPULAR AMERICAN NOVELS FOR THE YOUNG, SMITHSONIAN mass pages
CHILDREN'S FICTION SMITHSONIAN
selection of Pulp Crime Book Covers, INDIVIDUAL IMAGES
CRIME BOOKS (Dorothy Sayers Estate and others 2000)
THE BOOK COVER IN THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC Taschen, a selection, biblio

IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

FIRSTS ,FITZGERALD ETC
CRIME
ILLUSTRATED
NANCY DREW

 

 

ARTISTS' JACKETS

Ben Nicholson for Adrian Stokes , The Stones of Rimini 1934 (thanks to Michael Ilk)
  LONDON IS LONDON 1949 JACKET BY Edward Bawden 13 X 21 CMS
  WONDERS OF THE SEASHORE, WILLIAM NICHOLSON (?) c1905
book jacket by Milton Glaser for Conrad Aiken, A Seizure of Limericks
NICHOLAS MOORE, THE GLASS TOWER 1944 (drawing by Lucien Freud)
JESSIE M KING MUMMY'S BEDTIME STORY 1929
KEITH VAUGHAN FIVE NOVELS BY RONALD FIRBANK 1949
JOHN KASHDAN FOCUS ONE 1945

 

AUTHORS

B

A.BURGESS, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A.BURGESS, THE WORM AND THE RING

C

LESLIE CHARTERIS THE SAINT
AGATHA CHRISTIE GALLERY ONE
AGATHA CHRISTIE GALLERY TWO
AGATHA CHRISTIE GALLERY THREE (Batey Collection)
HENRY CROWDER HENRY MUSIC 1930

H

A. HUXLEY POINT COUNTER POINT C 1926

J

ULYSSES first

 

W

DENNIS WHEATLEY, VARIOUS
JOHN WYNDHAM, THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS

 

 

 

 

INFORMATIONAL

book jacket for Morley's Ancient Maya 1946
Cover design, Archibald Williams How it is made (glass blowing) 1921

 

THE CHAIRMAN'S GUIDE 1956 12 X18 CMS
THE CHILDREN'S LONDON 1932
HOW TO KEEP FIT, GEM,1937
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO MOTORS, ASHLEY HAVINDEN C 1937
E.WHEELER, THE FAT BOY'S BOOK 1952 12 X 18 CMS
THOU SHALT NOT CATCH COLD, UNDATED C 1952
ALLEN SEABY, PATTERN WITHOUT PAIN, BATSFORD 1948 JACKET
ENID MARK MARGARET LAMBERT, ENGLISH POPULAR ART BATSFORD 1951
CLIPPER OF THE CLOUDS , Sampson [1917] 12 x 19 decorated boards
A.B.FROST, HURLY-BURLY FOR Max Adeler,12 x 19 cms

 

 

SECTION TWO

MEN AND WOMEN for Miranda's Library ,1903 decorated boards 12 x 19 cms
MOLLIE AND THE MONTHS, C 1950 decorated boards [Ogle] 12 x 19 cms
ARCHY DOES HIS PART , 1936 jacket (Edward Bawden) 12 x 19 cms
ENGLAND HAVE MY BONES , T.H.White, 1936 jacket 12 x 19 cms
THE SEA GIRT FORTRESS , undated c1905 for Percy Westerman
TWO LITTLE MICE, c1932 12 x 18cms anon
THE BALLAD OF SIR JOHN PHILPOTT, decorated boards anon 1952,
THE ROMANCE OF PLANT LIFE, decorated boards 1907
THE BLACK OCTOPUS, jacket 1954 13.5 x 20cms
ZONNEWIJZER 1940 decorated boards, 15 x 21 cms
RIP Philip Macdonald jacket 1951 [1933] Crime Club
ESSAYS OF TODAY A.G.GARDINER 1928 jacket
THE BOY'S BOOK OF LOCOMOTIVES 1907

 

SECTION THREE

LA CUISINE FAMILIALE cover C1935 endpapers
THE SUN COMPENDIUM jacket 1929 (Watford)
OH YOU MODERNS board design 1933
THE BANKSIDE BOOK OF PUPPETS C1935 endpapers
101 THINGS TO DO c1952
William Steig, THE LONELY ONES 1942
Gluyas Williams, PEOPLE OF NOTE 1942, jacket
Sillince, UNITED NOTIONS 1943
Osbert Lancaster, FURTHER POCKET CARTOONS 1942
Gerard Hoffnung, HOFFNUNG MUSIC FESTIVAL 1956
COMIC SNAPSHOTS FROM EARLY ENGLISH HISTORY C1900

 

SECTION FOUR

Clifford Webb, jacket for Adrian Bell's Corduroy 1937 (1930)

 

CASSELLS' BOOK OF INDOOR AMUSEMENT C1900
E.C.Large, Sugar in the Air, 1937
 
Sadler's Wells Opera Books, Peter Grimes 1946
John Verney, Friday's Tunnel, book jacket 1959
Liam O'Flaherty , The Puritan, book jacket 1931, Barbara Lee-Elliott
William Kermode, for John Petty, 5 Fags a Day 1956
SCOTT FITZGERALD, The Great Gatsby 1925
Brian Little, Cheltenham, Batsford 1952 (design by Brian Cook)
Dashiell Hammett, The Dain Curse,1929 (design by F.Horvath)
Dashiell Hammett, Glass Key,1931

 

 

Wyndham Lewis , The Apes of God 1930
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, 1927 (design by Vanessa Bell)
Norman Bel Geddes, Magic Motorways , 1940
anon, Max Pemberton The Iron Pirate, decorated boards c1910 (single)
Maurice Prendergast (fecit) My Lady Nicotine,a study in smoke 1896
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES Popular Library COVER ART WORK

 

SECTION FIVE

Wyndham Lewis , Rotting Hill 1951
Kasimir Malevich, From Cubism and Futurism to Suprematism, 1916 (The Black Square)
A Kruchenykh, On the Struggle with Hooliganism in Literature , Moscow 1926
Paul Eluard Perspectives, 1949
E.C.Bentley Trent Interviews,1938
Vladimir Nabokov-Sirin, Camera Obscura 1936
P.G.Wodehouse, Very Good Jeeves 1930
Harold Jones jacket for C.S.Lewis Out of the Silent Planet 1938
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, cover design, House for an Art Lover, Darmstadt 1902
David Gascoyne, Poems 1937-1942 1948 edition (1943) design by Graham Sutherland
Frank Norris, The Pit 1934 anonymous design
Barbara Jones for Rolt's, The Inland Waterways of England 1950
L.Atkinson's cover design for for Christopher Smart, Selected Poems, The Grey Walls Press, 1947
book jacket for Hammett's The Maltese Falcon, New York 1930
book jacket for Bernard Darwin's War on the Line (Southern Railway), 1946
LOCOMOTIVES OF THE NORTH EAST RAILWAY 1905,
book jacket for John Newsom's Out of the Pit 1936

 

SECTION SIX

Erich Kuby, Rosemarie,
Noel Minnis, Linguistics at Large
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Pellucidar
Earl Stanley Gardner, The Case of the Fan Dancer's Horse
Edison Marshall, The Vikings
Andre Laurie, The Crystal City under the Sea
Doreen Wallace, In a Green Shade
Johnson's of Hendon, Home Photography
W.Wade, The Aeroplane in the Great War 1934 anonymous design
Arnold Ridley (after) , The Ghost Train c1930 anonymous design
"Sapper' , Jim Maitland c1930 anonymous design
Abram Games, jacket for Madge's Target for Tomorrow, The Rehousing of Britain 1945
Abram Games, jacket for Madge's Town and Country 1944
jacket for H.G.Wells, A Mind at the End of its Tether, 1945
Edward Ardizzone, jacket for Cook, Over the Hills and Far Away, 1949
jacket for William Plomer, Museum Pieces, Cape 1952
Nicolas Bentley's jacket for E.Turner's Boys will be Boys 1962
McKnight Kauffer's design,English Pottery at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1935
A RUN OF THE YELLOW BOOK

 

SECTION SEVEN

Ian Fleming, Diamonds are Forever 1956
William Golding, The Spire 1967
W.E.Johns, The Cruise of the Condor 1933
Christopher Usherwood All the Conspirators 1928
Pratella, MUSICA FUTURISTA (Boccioni) 1912
Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man (William Nicholson) 1929
A CHAMPION OF THE FAITH, Blackie's 1894
DOVER-OSTEND , Taffrail, c1952

 

SECTION EIGHT

MISCELLANEOUS PAMPHLETS

PENGUIN/PUFFIN

PENGUIN, ILLUSTRATED,SPECIALS ETC
PUFFINS FOR KIDS
KING PENGUINS, trade list 1951
KING PENGUIN, Mosses 1950
GEORGE ORWELL, THREE COVERS FOR Animal Farm, 1945

 

 

ASPECTS OF DESIGN

AMERICAN BOOKJACKETS GRAPHIS 38 1951
ART OF THE BOOK JACKET
THE ROYCROFT SHOP 1909
BARNETT FREEDMAN, 2 DESIGNS
JOSEPH CUNDALL, PUBLISHER
VICTORIAN BINDINGS, THE PRIVATE COLLECTOR, ROBIN DE BEAUMONT

 

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