Search Results: Authors starting with K from Madoc Books

London: W. Wilkins, Printer, Dolphin in Little Britain, 1723. Unbound. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. JONES Davis. An incomplete run of The Whitehall Evening Post from September 1723 to February 1724, 18 copies, each copy is 2 sheets with 4 pages of London Whitehall local & international News! ( + 1 copy of the Kaleidoscope; or Literary and Scientific Mirror for June 21, 1825 - 10 pages). The Post was published 3 times a week - Saturday, Tuesday & Thursday & the Kaleidoscope was published weekly, 1818-1831 by the Liverpool publisher Egerton Smith 1774-1841. (268*213 mm). The Whitehall Evening-Post editions are: No 777, Sep 3, 1723. No 788, Sep 26, 1723. No 797, Oct 17, 1723. No 809, Nov 14, 1723. No 813, Nov 23, 1723. No 815, Nov 28, 1723. No 816, Nov 30, 1723. No 817, Dec 3, 1723. No 819, Dec 7, 1723. No 823, Dec 17, 1723. No 824, Dec 19, 1723. No 828, Dec 28, 1723. No 829, Dec 31, 1724. No 834, Jan 11, 1724. No 835, Jan 14, 1724. No 838, Tues 21, 1724. No 840,… Read More

New Castle Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st ed, 1999. In blue cloth, gilt spine titles, gilt upper cover image. Internally, portrait frontis, [11], (xii-xxiii), [1], [1], 2-284 pp, [1], [1], 16 illustrations, blue marbled endpapers. 134 entries plus many variants. (227*153 mm). REDUCED

London Broadway, Ludgate Hill Glasgow, Manchester, and New York: George Routledge & Sons. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. GREENAWAY Kate. EVANS Edmund 1826-1905. VG, [1889] First edition, First Issue. In the publishers original green glazed pictorial boards, titles to both boards in black & green, children on see-saw to both boards, corners bumped. Blue cloth spine, rubbed at edges, no title. Internally, half title, [10], 11-63 pp, [1], 24 half page & many other illustrations within text, 53 activities described, yellow endpapers & text block edges, very occasional spot, previous owners book label to fpd (R. Wilkinson), small bookseller embossed stamp to fep (Lipson) with tiny edge tear, small bookseller label to epd (Hughes). 232*185 mm). (*Schuster p46; DPL73a; Osborne 1, p220; Engen p63)

London & New York: Frederick Warne and Co. First . Hardcover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Kate Greenaway. In red cloth spine, over cream cloth boards, green trellis design, title with the G upside down to both boards. Spine, no title, edges worn. Internally, purple endpapers, contents list, half title, frontis, [1], [4], 5-48 illustrations within borders, each with the illustrator's initials (KG) to lower left corner, [1] printers details stating: London Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans, final leaf lower tip lacking. Some paper damage to p13/14 &15 at margins, not affecting illustration. (170*122 mm). REDUCED

Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1981. Limited Edition . Quarter Leather. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Kyffin Williams 1918-2006. In quarter black goatskin, blind rule, with grey buckram boards, one of the linocuts printed on white buckram inset on upper cover, titled with gold on the spine, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Internally, NO inscriptions etc, (xii), 81 pp, 262*170 mm, clean fresh and tight. An edition limited to 277 copies, on Zerkall mould-made paperto celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr Kate Roberts, 26 linocuts by Kyffin Williams. In its original slipcase. Roberts, 1891-1985, was the finest Welsh novelist and short story writer of her day! (Esslemont/Hughes 5/p9)

Newtown, Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 1981. Limited Gregynog 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. WILLIAMS Kyffin 1918-2006. Probably the best "modern" Gregynog? First Limited Edition, in quarter black goatskin, blind rule, with grey buckram boards, one of the linocuts printed on white buckram inset on upper cover, titled with gold on the spine, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Internally, NO inscriptions etc, (xii), 81 pp, 26 illustrations. (262*170 mm). (Esslemont/Hughes 5/p9). Clean fresh and tight. An edition limited to 265 copies, on Zerkall mould-made paper to celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr Kate Roberts, 26 linocuts by Kyffin Williams. Signed on the limitation leaf by Cobnstance Bullock-Davies [Dr. specialist in medieval and Arthurian literature, 1900-1989]. Roberts, 1891-1985, was the finest Welsh novelist and short story writer of her day!

Tokyo, Japan, 1892. First Edition . Stiff Paper Wraps. Good. Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall. OGAWA K. In phototype & from photographic negatives taken by him. Volume 2 ONLY. 12 magnificent B&W images of Japanese ladies in their day costumes. In brown decorative stiff paper wraps, corners & edges lightly bumped and worn, ink owners at head (Thomas Pugh Davies), 12 pls, each with a tissue guard, library label verso of upper cover, small circular stamp to lower corner of pls, with silk ties, very occasional spot. (3899*296 mm). Ogawa studied for 3 years in the US and was considered a pioneer of Japanese Photography.

London: Davis-Poynter, 1974. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine, purple boards, gilt spine titles, in VG, clipped printed wraps. half title, portrait frontis, [12], 13-315 pp, first published in 1951. (216*136 mm).

New York, Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co, 1930. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. HORVATH Ferdinand Huszti. 8 Full page black & white plates by Ferdinand Horvarth + chapter headers. In yellow cloth, a little light edge wear, titles to spine in green, 3 green dragons to upper board. With its VG green printed DW, price clipped. Internally, half title, frontis, [4], (v-xii), [2], 3-206 pp, green illustrated endpapers, small paper repair at fep edge, evidence of bookplate removal to half title. (260*197 mm). The story of Taliesin's journey to Mon or Anglesea to study from the Druids about the birth of a Welsh Hero. Great work written by a Welsh mystic and published in the US where he came to live. Great illustrations of battling Dragons and Welsh heroes!. A wondrous retelling of the Mabinogion.

2 Hitotsubashi Kanda, Tokyo, Japan: Shuei-Sha Publishing Co Ltd, 1964. Limited Edition . No Binding. Near Fine. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Ando Hiroshige. In white vinyl clamshell box, titles to top cover and spine in blue inks. 24 superbly printed colour plates, loose as issued, each mounted in a paper folder with plate number and title in green to lower corner, plates are bright and unmarked, 37*35 cm, either folio or oblong, with a 4 pp red paper contents list and a 20 pp cream loose folder containing an introduction, biography and plate listing with description in both Japanese and English. Titles include Soto to Uchi, Tokaido 53-Tsugi No Uchi, Kiso Kaido 69, Tsubaki ni Kotori etc. Housed in a cardboard boz with corners gone, titles to spine and top cover. Stunning colour plates! These 24 plates make up the Hiroshige 24 Masterpieces which were part 4 of a broader set of Japanese woodblock illustrations. Utagawa Hiroshige was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, and one of the last great… Read More

Llandysul, Ceredigion, Wales: Gomer Press, 2001. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. WILLIAMS Kyffin. Near Fine, 1st ed, 1 st printing. In blue cloth, silver titles to spine. Fine DW (not clipped). Internally, half title, frontis, [8], 9-102 pp, 97 illustrations, many of which are single or double page. (210* 254 mm). A magnificent collection of pencil, watercolour and ink wash drawings by Kyffin Williams. Includes full colour reproductions of over 60 drawings held in both private and public collections. They are accompanied by the artist's own pithy comments on his subjects which are in turn illuminating, moving and amusing.

Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 2002. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. WILLIAMS Kyffin. Limited first edition, 58 illustrations. Oblong, in quarter black morocco over maroon cloth, image in black ink to top board, gilt title to spine. Internally, printed endpapers, authors signature to introduction, not paginated but 72 pp, 58 illustrations, some coloured, 1 folding, top edge cut remainder not, an edition limited to 295 copies bound by John Sewell, faint evidence of bookplate removal to verso fep, with the publishers custom slipcase. (235*277 mm) Kyffin Williams, elected to the Royal Academy in 1974, President to the Royal Cambrian Academy since 1992 and knighted in 1999, was involved, with David Vickers in the design for this title. This is the 4th publication from the Gregynog Press that Kyffin has illustrated.