Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$320.20 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half bound in grey cloth in very good condition, paper slipcase good with few light marks, internally appears generally clean and good with 81 wood engraved illustrations.
Seller: Foliation Books, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$363.93 + shipping
Description: Folio. Or.half buckram with decorated paper sides. unpag. Many engraved illustrations, including five fold-out engravings. No. 57 of 352 copies bound in half buckram by The Fine Bindery with an enlarged linocut by John Craig. Signed by John Craig. 1st ed. Very Scarce. A splendid volume with beautiful and delicate engravings. In the cloth-edged grey paper slip-case. Contains much about Benjamin
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Description: 23/352 COPIES (from an edition of 440 copies) signed by Craig, text printed in brown, the title-page printed in black, all on Zerkall mouldmade paper, 81 excellent wood-engravings, including 2 tipped in folding-plates, all printed in black, and 3 tipped in folding 2-colour linocuts, including one printed on grey paper, all by John Craig, pp. [67], folio, original half pale grey cloth, the boards with a design in shades of grey, untrimmed, bookplate to flyleaf, matching cloth and board slipcase, fine.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Slip-Case. Large 4to. (61)pp. Number 233of 440 copies. Signed by Craig author and artist. Eighty-one wood engravings and three folding two-color linocuts adorn Craig's verses, giving life to the flora, fauna, and landscapes of the surrounding Suffolk country and seaside which he describes. Also musical quotations. Bound in Original publisher's gray cloth with patterned paper over boards. Title on printed label on spine.Housed in matching slipcase. Top edge blue. Light grey end papers. Silver and grey sewn headbands. Enclosed within a cloth edged and grey paper covered slip case. ISBN 9781854280176 Fine.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
John Craig. Britten's Aldeburgh. Whittington Press, Risbury, Herefordshire, 1997.
Price: US$486.73 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 34x24cm, [60pp]. With eighty-one wood-engravings by John Craig printed in black from the blocks, and three two-colour linocuts tipped-in, printed on specially-made Zerkall paper, signed by Craig to the colophon. Copy 112 of 352 (440) half-bound in grey buckram over paper-covered boards printed with a reproduced enlargement of an engraving detail in blue, paper title-label to the backstrip, in a grey paper-covered slipcase with grey buckram to the top and bottom edges, in the original brown paper wrapping from the press (opened). A long out-of-print book from Whittington, much sought-after amongst enthusiasts of Britten, the Suffolk coast or both. It contains much information about Britten's approach to composition as well as the superbly printed engravings. Fine, with the small discreet blind-embossed stamp of Dr Trevor Weston to the corner of the rear endpaper, in a Fine slipcase.
Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Price: US$544.37 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Printed at Whittington on Zerkall mould-made paper in an edition of 440 copies. 352 of these copies were half bound in grey buckram with decorated paper covered boards. This is copy #212 and is SIGNED by the author/artist on the colophon. Three fold-out two-colour linocuts and other folded b/w engravings. Lines of Britten's music score included within the book. Light blue top page edge. Title label tipped to spine. Light grey end papers. Silver and grey sewn headbands. Enclosed within a cloth edged and grey paper covered slip case. In fine condition.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Craig, John. Britten's Aldeburgh. Whittington Press, Leominster, Herefordshire, 1997.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. (61)pp. One of 440 copies. Signed by Craig. Eighty-one engravings and three two-color linocuts adorn Craig's verses, giving life to the flora, fauna, and landscapes he describes. Bound in gray cloth with patterned paper over boards. Housed in matching slipcase. Fine. Top edge blue.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1024.69 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, this being one of 60 copies signed by the artist specially bound with an additional portfolio of engravings signed and dated by the artist, from a total edition of 440. Half-Oasis turquoise goatskin and boards, with portfolio, slipcased, 34 cm, [67] pp, ills ( some tipped-in and folding). The book has eighty-one engravings and three two-colour linocuts by John Craig. The portfolio has 6 further engravings, signed and dated by him. From a review of the book by Dennis Hall in Parenthesis: "The title crouches low on the page and wide letterspacing of the title suggests a bleak, spare, flat landscape. John Craig has rewalked the routes Benjamin Britten took while thinking about his music. The book is musical, it flows, not a justified line of type in sight. Blocks and text crouch low to avoid the wind. In the engravings, the fishing boats all have slightly dif-ferent shaped stems, at sea or on the beach, different solutions to the problem of smoothing the wake through the water. The houses again show knowledge, they may be looking towards Holland but they are very East Anglian, only the Venetian engraving is picture-postcardish. You can feel the cold and the colophon shows with honesty a driving easterly rainstorm. The book is successful as every aspect works well. Good text, very sympathetic wood engravings, lively design, partly an outside influence, beautifully produced and printed by a Press with the experience to be confident in what they are doing." Copy number XIX. Spine sunned to green (as common). One small mark to slipcase which also has a small dent to one edge, otherwise Fine.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Craig, John. Britten*s Aldeburgh. Whittington Press, 1997.
Price: US$1224.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good
Seller: dsmbooks, liverpool, United Kingdom