A MAN ON THE Moon

Legg, Owen: COMPLETE RUN OF THE WOODCRAFT PRESS PUBLICATIONS, Tonbridge Woodcraft Press '73 - '06
Eleven volumes printed by the Woodcraft Press. "Born in a suburb of London which had provided David Jones and Jack London, I grew up amongst the ruins of a bombed city. We played on bombed sites and watched birds among the semi derelict sports fields of South London. Our training was with the Boy Scouts who sent us everywhere camping and hiking, thus my love of the countryside and nature. My father was a great gardener and that stimulated my interest in gardens and growing vegetables. In fact my garden here is practically self supporting and is decorated with topiary. The best example is of an enormous peacock in the front garden which is a topic for the local agricultural college. From school I went to British Columbia for six weeks on the British Schools Exploring Society's expedition. Straight after that It was Hospital Medical School and eyes down to qualify. As thought, to go onto surgery. National Service came along and as I was a conscientious objector, I went to Congo as a voluntary missionary. My son was born on the Equator. Back In England, I tried for my Surgical exams and failed seven times. Obviously, that wasn't for me so 1 switched to General Practice in 1966 and moved to Tonbridge. All this time I had been sketching and .oil painting, but not really developing artistically. Not until started printmaking at the college of further education in nearby Tunbridge Wells did my Ideas start to solidify. not ossify, but develop. Linocuts for me limit the possibilities, but generate the ideas. Moving from prints I wanted text to accompany the image so used hand written poetry or cut lettering. This lead onto my first book in 1973 (the Armourer's Play) where Images of Knights and nudes, are combined with the text of a mystery play. This was exhibited during the .1973 York Festival. As time progressed, so my books have changed. Each as a result of my interests and preoccupations of the time. Many after long years of thought, others pretty instantaneous. The William Morris was finished on the morning when I set out as a medical Officer with the BSES expedition to Iceland. Thoughts of a Young Explorer was written and printed as a fund-raiser for my stint on the expedition to Alaska in .1999. Soon after that I retired from medicine, but my speed of book-making does not seem to have increased. produce sculpture from time to time and recently had an exhibition of these at Chatham. Now I am working full time on my current project Danse Macabre, a fifteenth century French poem with modern translation, illustrated by murals from a French church and footballers dancing with skeletons. My prints and books are scattered round the world Including the British library, Greenwich print Collection, Graphotek Berlin, Manchester University and Columbia university. I have exhibited widely In England, but also one man shows in Wales and France. I have belonged to the Free Painters & Sculptors for 4.1 years, exhibit regularly with them and have been their Hon Sec for 10 years." -Owen Legg The eleven titles are below: (Woodcraft Press) Butterfield, Frederick William Lois and Bill Griffiths. BATTLE OF MALDON.|THE. N.P. (but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 2003, square 8vo., cloth, glassine dust jacket. not paginated. Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, printer/proprietor of the press. This is the sixth book in the 30 years of the Woodcraft Press. The text is two translations of an Anglo-Saxon lament: the first, by Butterfields, was originally privately printed in 1903 and the second, by Griffiths, is a modern literal translation. There are linocut prints and borders in several colors - different on each page. The paper is white laid 100 gsm , recycled 12pt Gill hand set with a 4pt leading and wood type for the titling. Per the colophon " as each sheet has been though the press at least a dozen times there are thumb prints and off-set marks on some sheets in most copies." Glassine has a few tiny tears and chips. (Woodcraft Press) West, Gilbert. GARDENS OF STOWE.|THE. N.P. ( but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 2006, 8vo., silk cloth, matching slipcase. not paginated. Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, printer/proprietor of the press. The text is taken from Descriptions of Lord Cobhan's Garden at Stowe 1700-1750 edited by G. B. Clarke. Legg says that on his first visit to the gardens he imagined them peopled by nymphs and satyrs with perhaps nudes in the foreground. "Over the years this memory remained and has led me to produce a series of prints combining Stowe's follies with famous paintings." There are twelve full-page prints plus a print of Gilbert West from an engraving in the National Portrait Gallery. Printed in handset Burlington, 18pt, 2pt leaded on Fabriano No.5 . Spine of slipcase a little faded. (Woodcraft Press) Jones, Ken. CHRISTMAS LETTERS FROM A FRIEND. Letters written by Ken Jones to Owen Legg 1985-1996. N.P. ( but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1997, oblong 4to., cloth, dust jacket. not paginated. Limited to 175 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, printer/proprietor of the press. Ten years of seasonal letters. Jones and Legg have been friends for over 60 years. Illustrated primarily with photographs. Each letter has at least one illustration and/or photograph and most have a story to go with it. Introduction by Helen Legg. A charming book. Dust jacket is all stars and looks a bit like gift wrap. (Woodcraft Press) Sackville-West, Vita. GARDEN.|THE. Illustrated by Owen Legg. N.P. (but Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1989, large 4to., cloth, slipcase. 136, (4) pages. Limited to 200 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg, this being one of 180 on Fabriano 5 paper.. A very nice setting of Sackville-West's poem with five full-page, full-color linocuts of Sissinghurst plus additional ornaments in the text. The type is 18pt Perpetua, roman and italic. Woodblock letters for the titling and initial capitals. Prospectus laid-in. (Woodcraft Press) Graves, Robert and Omar Ali-Shah (translation). RUBAIYYAT OF OMAR KHAYAAM.|THE. Illustrated by Owen Legg. Tonbridge: Woodcraft Press, 1980, 4to., full goatskin, Mylar jacket, cloth slipcase. not paginated. Limited to 40 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg and the bookbinder (signature illegible). The colophon as printed states 45 copies, but the limitation that is handwritten is 40 and that number has been verified by Mr. Legg. There are 30 linocut illustrations. The paper is handmade from rag pulp, colored with wool fleck. Handset in 18pt Dante italic. The binding is quite striking - the dark top board has a large rectangle cut-out with a smaller rectangle in-set which in turn as a circle cut-out with a silver quarter moon in-set. The spine repeats the quarter moon motif. Lovely production. (Woodcraft Press) Legg, Owen. ADVICE TO A YOUNG EXPLORER. (Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 1999, square 8vo., stiff paper wrappers, cord tied. not paginated (8 pages). Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg. Illustrated with one linocut of a grizzly bear printed in three colors. " The poem is an attempt to bring the friendly childhood bear into the real wild world of ecology and conservation." Legg was a medical officer to the 1999 British Schools Exploring Society's expedition to the Talkeetna and Cugach National Parks. A couple of tiny creases at the corners. (Woodcraft Press) Palsson, Hermann and Paul Edwards. EGIL'S HEAD RANSOM. (Tonbridge): Woodcraft Press, 2001, square 8vo., stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. not paginated (8 pages). Limited to 100 copies numbered and signed by Owen Legg. Illustrated with two full page linocuts. An excerpt from a translation of Egil's Saga which saved his life when Egil recited it before the court of King Eric Bloodaxe in 948. The frontispiece is based on a helmet in the York Jorvik Viking Centre, which dates from the period of this poem. A couple of tiny creases at the corners. (Woodcraft Press) Morris, William. ON FIRST SEEING ICELAND. (Tonbr...

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illustrated throughout, Florence Brown Editor: Man on The Moon July 20, 1969 A. D. Collectors Edition ( Neil A. Armstrong, Lt. Col. Michael Collins, Col. Edwin E. Aldrin pictured on Cover ) One Giant Leap for Mankind , Astrowives the Women Who Wait, What the Moon Flight Means to America, John F. Kenn, M. F. Enterprises, Myron Fass 1969

Magazine Format, Minor rub,1969,1st edition, VG+, AS-IS, SOFTCOVER First Edition No Jacket Soft Cover

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100 Years 100 Songs (Music) Follow the rhythms of the century with this extraordinary selection of enduring hits. From the turn of the century's elegant melodies to the reckless, syncopated music of the roaring twenties; from sophisticated show songs and movie hits of the 1930s to the jaunty swing numbers of the Big Bands' heyday; from Elvis to Bob Dylan and the advent of the Beatles and on to bands like Oasis; from ragtime to rock'n'roll to reggae, and beyond. Each song is illustrated with images culled from the world's top photographic archives and enhanced with musical and historical background notes. Music Sales, 1999. ISBN: 9780711977686
neues Exemplar,Ungelesen.Einband mit äußerlichen minimalen Gebrauchsspuren Neupreis 35,5 Inhalt (102 Songs) LARGE THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE CENTURY AGAINST ALL ODDS AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' ALEXANDERS RAGTIME BAND ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER ALL I HAVE TO DO IS DREAM AMAZING GRACE AMERICAN PIE THE ANNIVERSARY SONG AS TIME GOES BY BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE BILL BAILEY WON'T YOU PLEASE COME HOME BLOWIN' IN THE WIND BLUE SUEDE SHOES BODY AND SOUL BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER BYE BYE BLACKBIRD CANDLE IN THE WIND CARELESS WHISPER CATHY'S CLOWN DONT'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA EV'RY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE EVERYTHING I DO I DO IT FOR YOU FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN FASCINATING RHYTHM GEORGIA ON MY MIND GIVE PEACE A CHANCE GOOD VIBRATIONS GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY HEARTBREAK HOTEL I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU I WILL SURVIVE I WRITE THE SONG I'LL BE SEEING YOU I'LL BE YOUR SWEETHEART I'M BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT IF YOU KNEW SUSIE IMAGINE IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON JOHNNY B GOODE KARMA CHARMELEON KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURNING KISS THE BOYS GOODBYE LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS LAYLA LOVE IS ALL AROUND MANANA (IS GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME) MEMPHIS BLUES MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE MOON RIVER MORE THAN YOU KNOW MR TAMBOURINE MAN MULL OF KNTYRE MY HEART WILL GO ON MY WAY NO WOMAN NO CRY OL' MAN RIVER ONLY THE LONELY OVER MY SHOULDER OVER THE RAINBOW PENNIES FROM HEAVEN ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK RUN RABBIT RUN SAILING SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME SAY YOU'LL BE THERE SHE LOVES YOU SHOW ME THE WAY TO GO HOME SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES STAYIN' ALIVE STAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER SUMMERTIME SUMMERTIME BLUES SWANEE SWEET SUE JUST YOU TAKE ME TO YOUR HEART AGAIN (LA VIE EN ROSE) TEARS IN HEAVEN TELSTAR THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC THANKS FOR THE MEMORY THAT'LL BE THE DAY THERE I'VE SAID IT AGAIN THESE FOOLISH THINGS THEY DIDN'T BELIVE ME THRILLER TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS UNCHAINED MELODY UNDERNEATH THE ARCHES THE VERY THOUGHT OF YOU THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT WE'LL MEET AGAIN THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER WITHOUT YOU WOMAN WONDERWALL WOODSTOCK YESTERDAY YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE ISBN 9780711977686

240 Seiten Softcover/Paperback

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Aviation Thruelsen, Richard: The Grumman Story, Praeger Publishers, NY, 1976 ; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0275542602
Condition: Nr Fine in Torn & Taped DJ. Orig owners name stamped on publisher's page. Book Size: 4to.

The Grumman Story by Richard Thruelsen. Published by Praeger Publishers, NY, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardbound w/Paper DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). Condition: Nr Fine in Torn & Taped DJ. Orig owners name stamped on publisher's page. 401 Pgs. ISBN 0275542602. LCCN 75-13832. This history of Grumman aircraft, spacecraft, and the people who made them & flew them is a vivid account of a single company's pre-eminence in the 40 year technological adventure that carried airborne man from the early biplanes to supersonic flight and then literally out of this world; to the moon and back. Illustrated with black and white photos. Description text copyright 2010 BooksForComfort. Item ID 21764.; 1st Ed

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