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Frank Brangwyn, Hayter Preston. Windmills. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1923 first edition. Yellow cloth, black titles and illustration, windmill-patterned endpapers, brick red dustjacket with same design. 12 [of 16] colour plates, and in-text b/w illustrations by Frank Brangwyn. Text by Hayter Preston. Condition: Fair in Fair dj. Lacks 4 of the plates. Those remaining are bright and clean. Cloth darkened to edges and spine. Red staining to bottom front board [transferred from the dj]. Light scattered foxing. Dj with large losses to spine, front bottom corner, and smaller losses elsewher. Now in removable plastic sleeve. Size: 10x8in / 25x20cm. 126pp. Weight: 785g.
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Frank Brangwyn and Hayter Preston. Windmills. John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., London, 1923.
Price: US$28.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Yellow cloth with title and design to front cover. Decorative endpapers; 126pp.,16 colour plates. Slight wear to extremities, covers a little grubby, rear cover slightly sunned. Light foxing throughout though mainly to margins also foxing to outer edges of text block which is untrimmed. Good condition.
Seller: Broad Street Book Centre, Hereford, United Kingdom
Hayter Preston; Frank Brangwyn [Illustrator]. Windmills. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923.
Price: US$29.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1923 edition, bright yellow cloth with black lettering and illustration. With color prints of windmills. Covers with mild fading to spine, dark tanned spot at head of spine onto front cover. Gentle wear, page edges moderately tanning. Book store marking on first page, else no markings noted. Remnant of jacket tucked inside, along with two publisher's flyers.
Seller: Alplaus Books, Alplaus, NY, U.S.A.
Frank Brangwyn and Hayter Preston. Windmills. John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1923.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition hardback, no dustjacket, yellow boards with black title and line drawing to front. Frontis is present but loose. Small area of damage to head of spine. Illustrated endpapers. Previous owners bookplate inside front board. Slight foxing to edges but no damage to images. Good condition.
Seller: Buckle's Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Preston, Hayter. Windmills. John Lane the Bodley Head / Dodd, Mead and Company, London, 1923.
Price: US$37.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. No dust jacket. Yellow buckram with lettering in black and illustrated front board. Light bumping to the board corners and spine ends, Small tear in paper over the front hinge, ink name to front paste-down and again to the bottom of the half-title. Clean througout. Binding clean and tight. Illustrated by Frank Brangwyn.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Frank Brangwyn; Hayter Preston. Windmills. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923.
Price: US$37.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in good_condition. Yellow cloth board. 126pp with 15 colour and b/w illustrations by Brangwyn. Slightly foxed but overall bright and clean inside.
Seller: Holt Art Books, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Frank Brangwyn and Hayter Preston.. Windmills.. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. Cloth slightly edge-rubbed and darkened, very slight spotting to fore-edge, small owners label to recto of (loose) frontis, otherwise near very good indeed. Dust jacket edgeworn and torn split at lower spine edge and lacking bottom half of spine. With all 16 colour plates. Please be aware that this volume is heavy and therefore extra postage will be requested.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, title-vignette, 15 coloured plates, illustrations in the text and printed endpapers; EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED BY THE INSERTION OF 3 COLOURED PLATES (2 WITH ORIGINAL CAPTIONED TISSUE GUARDS); yellow cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black, uncut, covers mildly age-soiled, backstrip worn at head and tail with short tears else a good, clean copy. The extra plates are 'The Windmill, Dixmude', 'The Bridge of Alcantara' and 'Life among the Ruins, Messina 1910'. Blythman 318.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
BRANGWYN, Frank & PRESTON, Hayter. Windmills. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head (1923)., 1923.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Description: First edition, 4to, 126 pp. 16 coloured plates, decorative endpapers, a few spots. Original yellow cloth, parts of spine darkened, d.w. with loss to the spine, top edge and corners, some old strengthening to the reverse.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Brangwyn, Frank & Hayter Preston. windmills. John Lane The Bodley Head, 1923.
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1st edition small quarto and vg+ in yellow boards with black windmills and title. Decorated endpapers, and just some slight spotting to early endpapers.
Seller: Poor Richards Books, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
Brangwyn, Frank and Hayter Preston. Windmills. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$39.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original yellow pictorial cloth, patterned endpages. First edition. Slight foxing to cloth and endpages, hint of foxing to other pages. Paper clip mark to prelims. All plates present and in good order, except one which has a little creasing at heel area. The DJ in mylar is toned/soiled, with chips to spine head, long closed tear to front panel. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Hayter Preston, Frank Brangwyn. Windmills. The Bodley Head, 1923.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: John Lane / The Bodley Head, London, 1923. Hardcover, 126 pp. 1st edition. An ex-library copy. With text by Hayter Preston, illustrations in color by Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956). Windmills of the British Isles and continental Europe. Good condition only with a bookplate from the Taussic Memorial Library of The California School of Mechanical Arts (San Francisco - currently a private high school). The only other library markings are fading white numbers at lower spine. With general soiling of boards, ends of spine fraying, with more at the head end, also some edge wear at extremities; three corners are rubbed through. No dust jacket. Binding remains solid. No dust jacket.
Seller: Randall's Books, Cathedral City, CA, U.S.A.
Brangwyn, Frank and Hayter Preston. Windmills. John Lane/Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: ex-library, internal library marks only; spine top wear;; 126 pp, yellow cloth
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
BRANGWYN Frank and Hayter PRESTON.. Windmills.. , 1923.
Price: US$49.63 + shipping
Description: London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. 1923. Sm. 4to. Or. illust. yellow buckram slightly soiled. 126pp. With col. frontispiece title-vignette 15 full-page col. plates text-illusts. and illustrated end-papers. 1st ed. Uncut.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Brangwyn, Frank & Preston, Hayter. Windmills. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$50.01 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 126 pages, with 16 colour illustrations including the frontispiece. BOOK:- Binding is sound, no loose pages; yellow boards are slightly soiled, spine is browned; spine head and heel crush, with fraying to spine head; some shelfwear and abrasion on the edges; 3 corners bumped; no ink names, stamps, or other permanent markings; no foxing or offset; uniform page edge browning; leading and bottom edges of text block roughly cut. Photo on request.
Seller: Klanhorn, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
PRESTON, Hayter illustrated by Frank BRANGWYN:. Windmills;. Bodley Head, 1923.
Price: US$71.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 16 color plates & other decorations; 126pp, 260 x 195mm; yellow decorated cloth (front panel of d.w. loosely inserted); (with PICTURE) 0.0
Seller: BOOKS & THINGS, STROUD, United Kingdom
Hayter Preston. Windmills. John Lane: The Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition copy of this beautifully illustrated history and homage to windmills, with watercolours by Frank Brangwyn. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. A charming volume descriptive of the history and development of windmills around Europe, with text by Hayter Preston. Illustrated with watercolours of windmills at Ramsgate, Campo de Crijitano (La Mancha), Bruges, Dunkirk, Cologne, and others, beautifully depicted in sixteen colour plates by the Welsh artist and printmaker Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956). Collated, complete. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally smart and bright, though slightly darkened to the spine, with small tears to the cloth to the head of the joints showing it has been pulled to the head of the spine. Light shelf wear to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing). 4to. 126pp. Yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in black. With two-colour patterned endpapers, a title page decoration, fifteen splendid colour lithographic plates and thirty black and white drawings in the text. A scattering of quite light occasional spotting, but almost all of the plates entirely spared. A very good copy in a distressed example of the uncommon dust wrapper, split into two parts of the front panel/spine panel join with some makeshift internal repair, and with a two-inch area of loss from the base of the spine panel, a smaller area from the head, and with several tiny closed tears and one small snag. Magnificent lithographs of windmills in Sweden, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Belgium, France, Cologne, Sussex, Kent, Barking, Ramsgate, Crowborough and Winchelsea.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Brangwyn, Frank & Preston Hayter. Windmills. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited / New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, (1923). First Edition. 10 x 7.75 in. 126pp. Yellow cloth stamped in black letters and windmill illustration front cover. Boards lightly soiled, spine moderately soiled, edges slightly worn. Very good overall, no dj. Numerous b&w illustrated initials and 16 color plates by Frank Brangwyn, each identified, accompanying the extensive text by Preston Hayter describing the ambience associated with each windmill located in various countries in Europe. ; Illustrated; 10 x 7.75 inches
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Brangwyn, Frank. WINDMILLS. , 1923.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 1923 Brangwyn, Frank and Hayter Preston WINDMILLS London: John Lane The Bodley Head, c1923 126pp illus 16 color plates sm 4to illus yellow cloth spine slightly discolored, else fine copy with only minimal wear on top edge of spine.
Seller: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Frank Brangwyin; Hayter Preston. Windmills. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A lovely first edition of this illustrated book dedicated to windmills of Europe, with coloured designs by Frank Brangwyn. A charming volume descriptive of the history and development of windmills around Europe, with text by Hayter Preston. The first trade edition of this work.Illustrative of windmills at Ramsgate, Campo de Crijitano (La Mancha), Bruges, Dunkirk, Cologne, and others.Beautifully depicted with sixteen coloured plates by Frank Brangwyn, Welsh artist and printmaker, an artistic jack-of-all-trades, producing a wide variety of all sorts of work including stained glass, furniture, ceramics &c. Collated, complete.Cut-out front wrap as well as rear wrap, flyleaves, and part of the spine of the original dust wrapper is loosely inserted. In the original publisher's full pictorial cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear, minor bumping to head and tail of spine, light soiling to boards. Dust wrapper worn, front wrap illustration neatly cut to the margins, front fly leaf and part of spine loose but present. Gift inscription to verso front free endpaper, dated 1932. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. With sixteen full page coloured plates. Collated, complete. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Brangwyn, Frank & Hayter, Preston. Windmills. The Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$115.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Plates all present. Book is bright and tight with just one minor mark at top of front board. Bumping to spine ends and corners. Internally hinges intact and a contemporary bookplate tipped in on f.e.p. Old ownership name on verso of end paper with partial offsetting from it on the half title which also has a few spots of foxing.Title page also has some minor foxing to the leading edge as well as a few light ink spots but very minor. The blank, following the final text leaf, has some spots as does the end paper it faces. A few of the text pages have a spot on the margin but very few and very minor. The jacket is sunned to spine and the adjacent inch on each panel with some light scuff marks on spine itself. Loss around spine ends and wear to hinges where there is a short bit of vertical loss at the middle of front hinge. 1" tear to front panel at top and bottom. Darkening across the top inch on both panels and loss to corners. Some internal reinforcing/repair but done with archival paper. The list of, mainly small, defects does not detract from it being a nice copy in a decent jacket. Postage will be confirmed when you enquire or order and for light or very heavy books will vary from the ABE quote which is based on a 1kg parcel. N.B. Postage to the USA will often be quite a bit less than the quote on ABE.
Seller: The Book Business (P.B.F.A), London, United Kingdom
Brangwyn, Frank & Preston, Hayter. Windmills. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1923.
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: With 16 colour illustrations by Frank Brangwyn. Bright yellow pictorial cloth hardback. Some spotting to prelims and page edges otherwise very good and sound. No inscriptions or other markings. The dust jacket has loss to spine and lower front and is unclipped. This is preserved in a clear protective sleeve. ; Colour Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 126 pages
Seller: Horsham Rare Books, Horsham, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing). 4to. 126pp. Yellow cloth, lettered and decorated in black. With two-colour patterned endpapers, a title page decoration, fifteen splendid colour lithographic plates and thirty black and white drawings in the text. Backstrip ends lightly bruised and with just a touch of spotting to the free endpapers and to the half-title. Very good indeed in the uncommon dust wrapper, chipped at the upper edge with four or five quite small portions of loss (not impacting the lettering), and a short slit to the rear panel-spine panel join. Magnificent lithographs of windmills in Sweden, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Belgium, France, Cologne, Sussex, Kent, Barking, Ramsgate, Crowborough and Winchelsea.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Description: First edition De Luxe hard back binding in publisher's original quarter vellum backed brown boards, black lettering panel to the spine, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, decorated end sheets. 4to. 10½'' x 8¼''. pp. [viii], 9-126, printed on fine hand-made paper; strikingly illustrated with a total of 16 fine coloured lithographs alongside historiated initials and other decorations in line and 2 additional colour printed woodcut plates printed by Y. Urushibara after designs by Brangwyn, of which one is SIGNED in pencil by the artist 'Frank Brangwyn'. Limited to only 75 copies for the English and American markets, this copy unnumbered. The top corner of the front free end paper neatly clipped and in near Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [British]
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom