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Price: US$69.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Neat message inside front board dated 1929. Light stain on front board. Endpapers a bit browned from offset. Spine and corners slightly frayed at ends. Content clean and very good. Charming pictures of two doggie mates on a couch.
Seller: Treasure House Books, Franschhoek, WCAPE, South Africa
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Large blue cloth, hardback book, with gilt embossed emblem, and bright blue coloured titles embossed on front board. The book overall is in reasonably good condition considering its age and use. Normal wear and marks apply consistent with use and age. Spine, cloth binding at the base has worn and come away, please see photo, it could be repaired, reasonably easily if required. Corners of boards bend inwards and do have wear. Ex library book, with Stockport Public Library stamp on title page. All pages, text and stunning illustrations are in really good, clean readable order. No jacket. Please note postage, packaging and shipping to overseas destinations may increase from listed price depending on final destination. There are twenty fabulous illustrations, all on the right hand side page of the book, and each page is a chocolate brown colour, with the illustration taking up over half the page, please see photos. Each humorous illustrations is a wonderful sketch, on a lighter tan coloured paper, titled and has a copy of the artist's signature. Each and every illustrations is of the artist's dog's Mickey, the Irish Wolfhound, and Cracker, the English Bull Terrier, who share different positions on a sofa, presumably in the artist's studio. Overall this wonderful book is in really ok condition and should be cherished and preserved for future generations. This is a book by a true genius of an artist, a man who absolutely loved his dogs and his craft, had a talent for bringing humour into his work.
Seller: Bishops Green Books, Newbury, BERKS, United Kingdom
Aldin, Cecil. SLEEPING PARTNERS. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1929.
Price: US$461.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1929. Slightly better than very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Sleeping Partners A Series of Episodes. A series of plates by Aldin featuring what appear to be a Irish Wolfhound and a terrier. Large format. Blue boards, light blue titles. Corners bumped. Endpapers a little grubby/foxed. Contents beautifully bright and clean. Pictorial wrapper is edge-worn and torn with loss. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Cecil Aldin. Sleeping Partners. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1929.
Price: US$1274.46 + shipping
Description: A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this beautifully illustrated work on dogs by artist Cecil Aldin. A signed copy of the first edition, first impression of this work.With the charming inscription 'to Hubbub with [.] from Cracker', and with Aldin's signature, to the front free endpaper. A loosely inserted note explains that 'Hubbub' was the dog of Aldin's personal friend, Capt. Jock Harper, and that Cracker was Aldin's dog.This work features illustrations of Cracker, a bull terrier, and Mickey, an Irish wolfhound, resting together. The two dogs were Aldin's favourite models, and featured in many of his works.Illustrated with twenty colour plates by Aldin. Collated, complete.Retaining the front wrap only of the publisher's original dust wrapper.With a loosely inserted print of a photograph of a man and his bull terrier.Aldin's pre-eminence in canine illustration was recognized in the 'Times' obituary of 1935, which said '. there never has been a painter of dogs to hold a candle to him'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with front wrap only of the publisher's original dust wrapper. Bumping to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally excellent. Inscription to front free endpaper. Loosely inserted photographic print. Two minor closed tears to head of dust wrapper front wrap, with chipping and small losses to fore edge of wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Plates exceptionally clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom