1902 HEATH ROBINSON Uncle Lubin CHILDRENS 1st Illus Start Price GBP 1,079.99 Current Price GBP 1,079.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, July 20, 2008 End Time Wednesday, July 30, 2008 Location London See more about '1902 HEATH ROBINSON Uncle Lubin CHILDRENS 1st Illus' Description   Click here to see our other books! The Adventures of Uncle Lubin Told and Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson FIRST EDITION 1902 - London - Grant Richards 8" by 6" - 114pp   DETAILS In orginal pictorial green cloth boards. This is the first edition of this delightful work illustrated with colour frontispiece and many further black and white plates and illustrations throughout. The binding is a little tired but this is nontheless a hightly collectable and valuable title. Uncle Lubin is Heath Robinson's first important work and is the hardest to find of all his works. It is famous for both being difficult to find and in generally poor condition. Its not too bad at all here, though the binding needs some expert strengthening, though, crucially, everything including the important illustrated endpapers is present and original. William Heath Robinson (May 31, 1872 – September 13, 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator, who signed himself W. Heath Robinson. He is best known for drawings of eccentric machines and "Heath Robinson" has entered the language as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contraption. Born into a family of artists in Islington, London, his early career was as a book illustrator, for example in Hans Christian Andersen's Danish Fairy Tales and Legends (1897); The Arabian Nights, (1899); Tales From Shakespeare (1902), and Twelfth Night (1908), Andersen's Fairy Tales (1913), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1914), Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies (1915), and Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie (1916). In the course of this however, he also wrote and illustrated two children's books, The Adventures of Uncle Lubin (1902), and Bill the Minder (1912); these are regarded as the start of his career in the depiction of unlikely machines. During the First World War he drew large numbers of cartoons, collected as Some "Frightful" War Pictures (1915), Hunlikely! (1916), and Flypapers (1919), depicting ever-more-unlikely secret weapons being used by the combatants. CONDITION The binding is loose throughout with many gatherings detaching from each other.  Both covers are attached although they, along with the spine, are holding to the text block very loosely by a couple of cords only.  There is some minor wear to the extremities including some rubbing to the edges and bumping to the corners and top and tail of the spine.   The cloth is little torn along the hinges.  Internally the book is generally clean and bright apart from some mild spots in places and some handling marks.  There is a copperplate signature to the front illustrated end paper. If you want to keep an eye on what is coming up, just add us to your favourites list! POSTAGE Postage and careful packing will be  UK £6.99 (Parcelforce 48)  USA £14.99 (Parcelforce International Scheduled - Airmail) Both services are TRACKED and INSURED We Ship Worldwide Royal Mail Airmail Signed For Channel Islands £11.99 Ireland (Republic Of)  £11.99 - Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg £11.99 France Germany & Denmark £11.99 Italy Spain Portugal & Greece £11.99 Rest Of Europe £11.99 Far East & Australasia £16.99 Rest Of World £17.99   All books are packed carefully to survive in bubble wrap and protective packaging This book weighs up to 1 kg when packed GUARANTEE We offer a full money back guarantee on our descriptions. Please ask for details and conditions. We prefer PAYPAL. If you pay via PAYPAL we will post the item off the same or the next working day with the postage you have selected. Please note we cannot accept USD cheques Powered by eBay Turbo Lister     SquareTrade © AP6.0 Place a Bid!