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Sparrow, Walter Shaw. Advertising and British Art. John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1924.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good hardcover copy long ago released from a library, so rebound in black buckram, with title in gilt on the spine, also a number at the base of the spine. NO other library marks or pockets, etc. The title page has a bit of oxidation to the top of the page. This very soft paper typically attracts foxing. Very clean throughout. A few edge tears now closed. The color plates are printed on white glossy sheets and are fine. 36 color plates + 121 black & white illustrations + 27 figures in the text. 11" high X 8" wide, 189 pages + ads. Heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
Seller: Design Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.86 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Boards have heavy wear. Heavy foxing to edges of page-block.Early bookplate to front pastedown. Moderate foxing to preliminaries and rear endpapers. Scattered foxing to margins.The wonderful plates are clean and in good order. Binding tight.189pp Size: 235mm x 290mm
Seller: Lectioz Books, Gloucester, NSW, Australia
Price: US$51.28 + shipping
Description: First edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter beige buckram over sea green paper covered boards, hunter green title and author lettering to the spine. 4to. 11½'' x 9''. Contains (xvii), 189 pp + 6 pp publisher's catalogue, with 36 illustrations in colour, 121 half-tone prints and 27 line blocks in the text. Corners worn through to the boards, spine age darkened. Heavy volume weighing 2 kg, extra postage and insurance will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. GRAPHIC DESIGN (Visual Arts)
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.66 + shipping
Description: With 36 illustrations in colour, 121 half-tone prints, 27 line blocks in the text. XVII, 189 S., 29,5 x 23 cm, Orig.-Halbleinen (Ecken bestoßen, Textseiten am Rand teils stockfleckig, Tafeln sauber) * Erste (einzige) Ausgabe, zur britischen Werbegraphik und Plakatkunst; in englischer Sprache. - First edition. British Design and Commercial Art. With Appendix: The reform movement in advertising: a selection of artists and their principal clients (alphabetic list). General Index. Text pages foxed, else clean. Very good copy
Seller: Antiquariat A. Suelzen, Berlin, Germany
Price: US$70.51 + shipping
Description: , xvii, 189 pages, with 36 illustrations in colour, 21 half-tone prints and 27 line blocks in the text, publisher's catalogue at rear [6] First Edition , boards a little scuffed at edges and with a few scuffs to front and rear, firmly bound, neat owner's name on front free endpaper, closed tear across page xv/xvi (list of illustrations), pages and plates nice and clean, the book is in good condition , quarter cream cloth and decorative paper covered boards, green title on spine 29 x 24 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.51 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hbk, xvii, 189 pages colour frontispiece, illustrations, plates (many colourr) 30 cm. Corners worn, some foxing to end-papers and edges o/w a very clean copy in good condition. Contents : Foreword -- Prefatory. Custom versus improvement -- Ideas, principles, and methods. Varieties of advertising ; Reform and its foes ; Designers and their clients ; What is a poster? -- Art and life in posters and press drawings. Sports, games, and country life ; Steamship hotels and the sea ; The seaside ; Posters and the home: pure landscapes ; Architecture and advertising ; Figure subjects -- and finale -- Appendix: The reform movement in advertising: a selection of artists and their principal clients alphabetical lists. The underground railways, London, 1913-1924 ; The London & North-Eastern Railway, 1922-1924 ; The London, Midland & Scottish Railway, 1924 ; The Southern Railway ; The L.C.C. Tramways ; Shipping companies and travel agencies ; A selection of other advertisers with the artists who have aided them. [Posters - Advertising] s268 / m14772
Seller: Gwyn Tudur Davies, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 36 colour illustrations, 121 half tone prints and 27 line blocks. Cover with normal handling soil. 190 pp. Oversize/heft may require additional postage.
Seller: Doodletown Farm Books, Ancram, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$76.92 + shipping
Description: First edition, 4to, (xviii), 189, (1, 6 advertisement) pp. 36 colour and 121 black and white plates, slightly later inscription to fly leaf. Original buckram backed boards, corners bumped, a few marks.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 190 pp. with index. 36 color illustrations, 121 half-tone prints, 27 line blocks in text. Published "for the reform of advertising," the author states that advertising is to trade, "what steam is to machinery, the grand propelling power." Amply illustrated here with B&W images and beautiful adverts that have held their color. Chapters ("Reform and Its Foes," "Steamship Hotels and the Sea," "Architecture and Advertising") fall under "Part I: Ideas, Principals, and Methods" and "Part II: Art and Life in Posters and Press Drawings." Not so much MadMen as an industry aiming "to set thought in movement and invite free public discussion." Some uncut ragged-edge pages, endpapers showing age through browning, fingerprint smudges, pencil marks up front. Corners bumped, edges worn. Boards delightful "ball and cell" design in blues/rose/sea foam with oatmeal quarter spine with darker blue lettering. Dust jacket torn top/bottom with holes along spine edges, with front showing scrape marks and overall shelf wear.
Seller: Griswold Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Walter Shaw Sparrow. Advertising and British Art. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1924.
Price: US$89.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of this copiously illustrated work on the history of art and advertising in Great Britain, written by Walter Shaw Sparrow. A fascinating work on the relationship between art and advertising in British history, with chapters on varieties of advertising, advertising reform, designers, the history of British advertising posters (including sporting posters, hotels, the seaside, architecture, etc.), and more.The first edition of this work.Written by Welsh writer Walter Shaw Sparrow, an expert on art and architecture.Illustrated with thirty-six prints in colour and one-hundred and twenty-one half-tone prints. Collated and complete. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, some shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Cloth has darkened slightly. Internally, firmly bound. A few spots to the endpapers, though pages are otherwise bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$116.12 + shipping
Description: Folio. Or.quarter buckram and decorated paper sides. xvii,190,6pp. uncut. Profusely illustrated as previously described. The corners a little worn else a very good copy. 1st ed. Scarce.
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia