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Flint, William Russell. In Pursuit: An Autobiography. Medici Society, London, 1970.
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 370 x 260mm. pp. 259, [7]. English text. Number 334 of a limited edition of 1050 copies of 'In Pursuit: An Autobiography'. Limited edition consists of 1050 copies of which 150 are bound in full leather and 850 in quarter leather. This is number 334 which is bound in quarter red morocco with grey boards. Gold title lettering to spine and decoration to front cover. Signed and numbered by Francis Russell Flint (Son of William Russell Flint) on limitation page at rear. Colour and black and white illustrations. Main text block clean. Some light fading and scuffing to spine, and some light bumping and marking to boards. Slipcase strong, but showing some marking and light bumping. Binding strong. No ownership inscription or underlining. See images. Heavy book at 2.5kg. Extra postage.
Seller: Peter Rhodes, Southampton, United Kingdom
Price: US$94.78 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 264pp. Still in it's original slip-case which is still in the original heavy card box packaging. Looks like it has never been used. Issued the year after WRF's death and signed by his son. Huge and heavy - Weighs over 2.8 kg. Additional P&P will apply for overseas buyers - please ask seller for a quote before ordering.
Seller: Tony Hutchinson, Seale, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION : Signed by Francis Russell Flint, the son of Sir William: from a total edition of 1050 { only 1,000 for sale } which are all signed by the same hand, this one numbered 355/850 in Quarter Leather. Title vignettes, illustrations and decorations, some colour. Full original red quarter leather morocco and gilt decorated grey boards, top edges of pages in gilt. Clean bright example throughout. Original blue slipcase.; 3-259, [7]p. : illus. (some col.), facsims., port. ; { Subject: Sir William Russell Flint, R.A. [1880-1969] Artists - [20th Century - United Kingdom] Signed book Limited Edtion Painters - [20th Century - United Kingdom] Ware Colour painters }
Seller: BiblioFile, Cadole, FLINT, United Kingdom
Flint, William Russell. In Pursuit An Autobiography. The Medici Society, London, 1970.
Price: US$148.88 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Horizontal tear to page 255 repaired with archival tape; Edition limited to 1050 numbered copies of which this is number 539. Quarter red morocco, gilt, spine gilt. In blue cloth slipcase; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 266 pages
Seller: Haymes & Co. Bookdealers, Kingscliff, NSW, Australia
Flint, William Russell. In Pursuit: An Autobiography. Medici Society, London, 1970.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition of 850 copies quarter bound in red leather with grey cloth, this is number 676 and is signed by author's son, Francis Russell Flint. Marbled endpapers designed by Flint, one hundred and twenty illustrations in all, of which thirteen are in full colour. Top edge gilt, gilt stamp to front and gilt printing to spine. Comes in slipcase with original ribbon still in place. Minimal rubbing to cloth on boards, very handsome. AD
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
FLINT, Sir William Russell.. IN PURSUIT.. London: The Medici Society Ltd., 1970., 1970.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: Signed, limited edition, no.508 of 1050 copies, numbered and signed by Francis Russell Flint to colophon, folio, pp.264, quarter red morocco with 5 raised bands, gilt, pictorial grey cloth boards, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, colour and b/w plates, pictorial title and vignettes; rubbing to corners of boards, a few small, mostly slight scuffs to spine, a fresh and overall near-fine copy.
Seller: Minster Gate Bookshop (est. 1970), YORK, United Kingdom
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Grey cloth over boards, backed in red morocco, stamped in gilt on upper board and spine, t.e.g., marbled endpapers; blue cloth slipcase; folio; pp. 259, [6], with colour plates, duotone and monotone illustrations. Number 617 from a limited edition of 850 copies, signed by Flint on the limitation page. (Total limitation of 1050 copies.) Upper board very faintly rubbed; a few tiny scuff mark on raised spine bands; otherwise book is fine, in lightly rubbed and scuffed slipcase. A lavish production.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: LIMITED EDITION OF 1050 COPIES, THIS COPY NUMBER 273, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR'S SON, FRANCIS RUSSELL FLINT. 265pp, illustrated with colour plates and duotone and monochrome images, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, quarter bound in red morocco with grey cloth, gilt image of a key to upper board, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, one or two scuffs to spine, blue cloth slipcase with single silk ribbon to aid in extracting the book, large stain to one side where it has fulfilled its role and protected the book. Size: Large Quarto
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United Kingdom
Sir William Russell Flint. In Pursuit: An Autobiography. The Medici Society, London, 1970.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 36x25cm, 259pp. Printed in black, blue and red with copious colour plates, duotone and monotone illustrations. Copy 1023 of 850 (1100) signed by Christopher Russell Flint (grandson of the artist), bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter-scarlet leather over grey cloth-covered boards, gilt device blocked to the upper board, gilt title to backstrip five raised bands,endpapers printed from a marbled design by Russell Flint, in a blue cloth-covered slipcase with silk pull-out ribbon. Russell Flint's lavishly produced autobiography, published posthumously and described in a letter of his son's reproduced in facsimile as 'the work nearest to his heart for so many years'. Written as a series of short, separate reminiscences, each with elegant typography, and interspersed by many reproductions of his works. Near Fine (Fine with the exception of some small scattered foxing spots to the foredge of the text block) in a Near Fine (Fine with the exception of a frayed pull-out ribbon) slipcase.
Seller: Woodbridge Rare Books, Suffolk, United Kingdom
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED BY AUTHORS SON FRANCIS RUSSELL FLINT : NUMBER 86 OF ONLY 150 COPIES: from an edition of 1050 which are all signed by the same hand { only 1,000 were for sale }. Title vignettes, illustrations and decorations, some colour. Full original blue leather morocco, gilt edge, clean bright example throughout. Matching original blue slipcase. Prospectus with what appears Sir William Russell Flint's handwriting to margin head "Prospectus" { see image }; 3-259, [7]p. : illus. (some col.), facsims., port. ; { Subject: Sir William Russell Flint, R.A. [1880-1969] Artists - [20th Century - United Kingdom] Signed book Limited Edtion Painters - [20th Century - United Kingdom] Ware Colour painters }
Seller: BiblioFile, Cadole, FLINT, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Description: Folio, Liimed numbered Signed Edition to 1050 copies, this being copy 775. Finely Bound in Red Quarter Morocco, T.E.G, marbled end-papers, housed within Publishers full blue slip-case. The Autobiography was a 'strickly Limited World Edition' - in its two hundred and seventy six pages are included one hundred and nine pages of plates - one hundred and twenty illustrations in all, of which thirteen are in full colour. Stunning Volume : Fabulous Copy.
Seller: HALEWOOD : ABA:ILAB : Booksellers :1867, PRESTON, United Kingdom
FLINT SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL. IN PURSUIT. LONDON THE MEDICI SOCIETY, 1970.
Price: US$512.35 + shipping
Description: LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR'S SON, FRANCIS RUSSELL FLINT. SMALL FOLIO, FULL BLUE LEATHER, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, ALL EDGES GILT, WITH BLUE SLIPCASE. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH FLINT'S WORK. THIS IS NUMBER 46/150. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FLINT. A FINE COPY BUT FRONT HINGE PARTIALLY SPLIT. SLIGHT MARK TO ONE SIDE OF SLIPCASE.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
FLINT SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL. IN PURSUIT. LONDON THE MEDICI SOCIETY, 1970.
Price: US$640.43 + shipping
Description: LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR'S SON, FRANCIS RUSSELL FLINT. SMALL FOLIO, FULL BLUE LEATHER, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, ALL EDGES GILT, WITH BLUE SLIPCASE. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH FLINT'S WORK. THIS IS NUMBER 124/150. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FLINT. A FINE COPY WITH SLIPCASE.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
FLINT SIR WILLIAM RUSSELL. IN PURSUIT. LONDON THE MEDICI SOCIETY, 1970.
Price: US$640.43 + shipping
Description: LIMITED TO 150 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR'S SON, FRANCIS RUSSELL FLINT. SMALL FOLIO, FULL BLUE LEATHER, MARBLED ENDPAPERS, ALL EDGES GILT, WITH BLUE SLIPCASE. PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED WITH FLINT'S WORK. THIS IS NUMBER 34/150. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF FLINT. A FINE COPY. SLIGHT BUMP TO ONE CORNER OF THE SLIPCASE.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Price: US$672.45 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Typeset in Caslon Old Face at the Favil Press and printed predominantly in red, black, reddish-brown and blue (the illustrations in a great many colours) on Mellotex paper. Many illustrations, colour, sepia and monochrome. Edition of 1,050 copies, of which this is number 80 of 150 special copies bound in full blue morocco by Mansell, upper board blocked in gilt, spine titled in gilt, all edges gilt, endpapers to a design by WRF. Colophon signed by Francis Russell Flint. Matching slipcase. Absolutely pristine copy in its original cardboard packing case.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Flint, William Russell. In Pursuit. The Medici Society Ltd, Great Britain, 1970.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover in slipcase. Half-leather binding. Red leather spine with gold gilt lettering. Grey cloth with key design in gold gilt on front cover. Limited Edition. #1032 of 1050. Marbled endpapers. Book is in FINE condition. Dark blue slipcase in FINE condition also. 1970. 259 pages. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 259 pages
Seller: Book Gallery // Mike Riley, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
Flint, William Russell. In Pursuit : an Autobiography. Medici Society, 1970.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Signed by Author(s)limited edition.#73 of 150 copies bound in full leather.5 raised bands on the spine, gold gilt edges and logo embossed on the front of the book. signed by the author's son : Francis Russell Flint. the book is housed in the slip case as issued. the slip case is a touch shelf rubbed. the book is close to pristine and appears as new. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa