Search Results: oho by rex whistler

Fair, the interior very good with slight tan striping lightly visible on some pages. Pictorial endpapers. Cover with bumps and light edgewear, loss to lower spine and upper spine with tear. Dustcover present but torn at spine.

The Bodley Head. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1946. Hardback. Dust jacket worn w/ a number of small losses and splits at edges/corners, more notable loss at top-edge of front panel, age-toned, minute flecked staining; Pageslightly age-toned, minimal spotting and light offsetting on endpapers, B&W illustrations throughout; Biographical newspaper clippings on Rex and Lawrence Whistler laid in front [The Independent, both dated 1994; Binding tight. Reversible text by Laurence Whistler and drawings by Rex Whistler. ; 7.5 x 9.75"; 34 pages .

London: John Lane at the Bodley Head. 1946. First edition, first printing. First edition, first printing. Original illustrated paper-covered boards, in dustwrapper. Illustrated throughout in colour by Rex Whistler. A better than very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities a little rubbed, the foot of the spine with a short closed tear. The contents, with very faint offsetting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased original dustwrapper which is a little dusty and has a few short closed tears to the extremities. Not price-clipped (5s. to the both flaps). An unusual book featuring Rex Whistler's 'Reversible Faces' accompanied by his brother's humorous verse. The book can be read either way up, right down the the blurb on the dustwrapper flaps. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact… Read More

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1946. First. hardcover. 15 illustrations of "reversible faces" which present a different image when viewed upside-down. 30 accompanying verses by Laurence Whistler. Thin 8vo , pictorial cream boards, d.w. London: John Lane/Bodley Head, (1946). First Edition.<br/> <br/> Fine copy of this clever novelty book, in a near fine dust wrapper with one chip at the bottom edge.<br/> <br/>

London : John Lane the Bodley Head, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 7.5". None. A first edition of this collection of illustrations from Rex Whistler, described by his brother Laurence. Printed to be read upside-down and the correct way up. Illustrated throughout with Whistler's 'grotesque and amusing faces'. In paper-covered binding. Externally, smart, with just some light edgewear. Dustwrapper is smart, with just some slight edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine

Bodley Head London, 1946 BRILLIANTLY illustrated with 15 reversible heads and 30 associated verses, original pictorial boards, dust jacket slightly worn, and now protected. Not price clipped. First edition of this ingenious book, which the publishers proudly claim, "We make bold to announce that OHO! Is unique among books. For it has no front or back, or rather two of each. So the reader is enabled to enter the Whistler Brothers' gallery in either direction." Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good.