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[The Fleece Press] [Poster]. Mr Derrick Harris.. Denby Dale, Huddersfield: The Fleece Press, 1998., 1998.

Price: US$45.48 + shipping

Description: One of only 90 copies of an advertising poster for 'Mr Derrick Harris' by Simon Brett, featuring Harris's engravings of Dick Whittington and Joey the Clown (1959). A single sheet 380 mm x 218 mm (15 x 8.75 inches) now in two removable, protective archival sleeves. A poster in Fine condition, now in a clear, protective, archival-quality display pocket. Derrick Harris (1919-1960) was a British engraver and illustrator. He worked for the BBC Radio Times and designed full page covers for The Listener Magazine. He designed wood engravings for the Festival of Britain and an unpublished children's book "A Royal Flush". In 1957 he became chairman of the Illustrator's Group of the Society of Industrial Artists.

Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom

Harris, Derrick] BRETT, SIMON.. Mr Derrick Harris. 1919-1960.. Denby Dale: Fleece Press,, 1998.

Price: US$149.45 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: One of 280 copies printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper, 2 reproductions of photographs of the artist Derrick Harris and with numerous wood-engeravings by him, including colour reproductions of 6 engravings, together with a folding plate, pp. 57, 4to, original quarter mustard cloth, printed label, patterned blue-grey boards, roughtrimmed, with 'Some Extra Engravings' sewn into tan wrappers and a folder containing 9 colour printed designs for the unpublished work 'Royal Flush [c.1946], pale yellow cloth dropdown box with printed label. A very good copy

Seller: David Strauss, FOLKINGHAM, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

Brett, Simon. Mr. Derrick Harris 1919-1960. The Fleece Press, Denby Dale, 1998.

Price: US$155.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited edition of 280 copies. Pale yellow cloth covered clam-shell presentation box housing the following: Quarto format book, bound in a quarter orange cloth with printed paper sides, 57pp. Illustrated with photo plates and wood engravings (1 folding). Book in Fine condition. With; Large oblong folder of 9 coloured illustrations for 'Royal Flush' c.1946 and a smaller folder containing a further 3 engravings. Complete with the loose title sheet and a loose engraving for 'Air India' produced by Harris is 1958, limited to 100 copies printed at the Fleece Press. Contents in excellent condition. Clam-shell box having some surface wear and markings. Overall - Contents: Fine. Box: Very Good. Heavy, additional shipping required.

Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom

[Fleece Press] Brett, Simon.. Mr Derrick Harris, 1919-1960.. Denby Dale, Huddersfield: Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press, 1998., 1998.

Price: US$168.94 + shipping

Description: One of an edition limited to 280 copies, set in Modern No. 7 by Peter Sanderson on Zerkall. Orange quarter linen, patterned boards, spine with printed label. Quarto. pp. six colour plates, two photographic portraits in sepia, numerous illustrations. Together with three additional wood-engravings in brown printed wrappers with separate title page and a grey portfolio containing nine colour plates with the title colour plate "Royal Flush" mounted on the upper cover. All housed in a cloth solander box, spine with printed label. A book and other items all in Fine condition in a Fine solander box.

Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom