Buy this book on-line RAYMOND CHING : The Bird Paintings. Water Colours and Pencil Drawings 1969-1975. With an introduction by Peter Hansard and text by David Snow, A.H.Chisholm and M.F.SoperCollins, London, 1978
First Edition (first printing). Elephant folio. 143pp. Quarter-cloth lettered in gold at the spine. With twenty-four magnificent full-page colour plates all hitherto unprinted - with text to each adjacent verso, and thirty-one further black and white plates and drawings in the text. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, chipped with just a little loss from the spine panel ends and corner tips, and with a short jagged tear to the base of the front panel-front flap fold; the whole then housed within glossy paper-covered decorated slipcase, with is just a little rubbed and marked in places. A lavishly produced selection of Ching's post- 'The Reader's Digest Book of British Birds' paintings and drawings produced in his remarkable conservative realist style. (The Reader's Digest production was Ching's first book: he was commissioned to produce 230 full colour bird portraits in under a year leaving him ill, exhausted and penniless). [A heavy item, overseas orders will incur a postage surcharge].. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of RAYMOND CHING : The Bird Paintings. Water Colours and Pencil Drawings 1969-1975. With an introduction by Peter Hansard and text by David Snow, A.H.Chisholm and M.F.Soper. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including used books, libri rari, livres d'occasion, atlases and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |