BARBOUR, RALPH HENRY

The Lilac Girl

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1909. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood and Edward Stratton Holloway. Color & B&W; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing along with some very beginning fraying. The covers have some ground-in dirt and several spots. The square pictorial pastedown has some light rubbing and wear around the edges. The text pages are clean and bright. Most pages are decorated around the lower edge. The reverse of the frontispiece has a previous owner's gift notation dated 1911. Illustrated throughout with full color illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood. "Ralph Henry Barbour (November 13, 1870 – February 19, 1944) was an American novelist, who primarily wrote popular works of sports fiction for boys. In collaboration with L. H. Bickford, he also wrote as Richard Stillman Powell, notably Phyllis in Bohemia. Other works included light romances and adventure. ". Very Good .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 33767

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated Editions Ralph Henry Barbour Clarence F. Underwood Romance Illustrated editions

BARRIE, J. M. (JAMES MATTHEW)

A Window in Thrums

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by A. C. Michael. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The spine of the book has some spots of fading. All ten color illustrations are included, and have the accompanying tissue guards. The text pages are clean and bright. "The stories depicted the "Auld Lichts", a strict religious sect to which his grandfather had once belonged. Modern literary criticism of these early works has been unfavourable, tending to disparage them as sentimental and nostalgic depictions of a parochial Scotland, far from the realities of the industrialised nineteenth century, seen as characteristic of what became known as the Kailyard School. Despite, or perhaps because of, this, they were popular enough at the time to establish Barrie as a successful writer. Following that success, he published Better Dead (1888) privately and at his own expense, but it failed to sell. His two "Tommy" novels, Sentimental Tommy (1896) and Tommy and Grizel (1900) , were about a boy and young man who clings to childish fantasy, with an unhappy ending. The English novelist George Gissing read the former in November 1896 and wrote that he "thoroughly dislike[d it]". " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 44587

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated Editions J. M. Barrie A. C. Michael

BOYD, JAMES

Drums

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Hardcover. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. B&W and Color Illustrations; C1935 edition. This book has been nicely rebound in red cloth with gilt decoration and spine lettering. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate (LeRoy V. Brandt) on the front pastedown page. Included are 10 full page, full color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. "Boyd served overseas with the Army Ambulance Service in World War I. After World War I, he experienced ill health, and retired to Weymouth, a house his grandfather built in Southern Pines, North Carolina. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Boyd's first book, Drums, was set in Edenton, North Carolina, and has been called the best novel written about the American Revolution. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, Drums was included in Life Magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924-1944. He wrote five historical novels, including Bitter Creek, which were thought to have elevated the genre through greater historical accuracy, psychological and sociological awareness, and formal craftsmanship. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 42224

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated Editions James Boyd N. C. Wyeth Scribner Illustrated Classics North Carolina

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (EDITOR)

Picturesque America Or the Land We Live in. A Delineation By Pen and Pencil. . .

New York: Appleton and Company, 1872. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a two volume set, bound in morocco with embossed leather and gilt . A. E. G. (all edges gilt). This set is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The front and rear hinges have cracking and have apparently been professionally repaired at some point in the past. The salmon colored endpapers have noticeable foxing and there are notations from previous owners on both volumes. The text pages are clean and bright. "The volumes display both steel and wood engravings based on the paintings of some of the best American landscape painters of the nineteenth century, such as John Frederick Kensett, William Stanley Haseltine, James David Smillie, John William Casilear, Thomas Moran, A. C. Warren, Harry Fenn, David Johnson, Granville Perkins, John Douglas Woodward et al..." "This ambitious work was published and delivered as a subscription; semi-monthly parts were sent out to subscribers. Once complete, the subscription would be bound into volumes. A variety of bindings were available, from cloth-bound with leather corners at the low end to full Morocco leather bindings with elaborate tooling. The stately bound two volume set was proudly displayed in parlors of subscriber homes as a show of status. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 40926

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Americana William Cullen Bryant Essays American History Illustrated Editions Illustrators Geography History

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY (ENGLISHED ANEW BY GEORGE PHILIP KRAPP)

Troilus and Cressida a Love Poem in Five Books

New York: Literary Guild, 1932. Reprint. Hardcover. Illustrated by Eric Gill. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good + condition. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has completely split at the front spine joint and has large chunks of the spine lacking. There are several edge tears and other chips missing. "The whole of Troilus and Criseyde has never before been presented to English readers in a modernized version. The story was extremely popular in the time of Shakespeare, and a number of other plays on this theme, besides Shakespeare's own, were written and acted in Elizabethan times." "Arthur Eric Rowton Gill ARA (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was an English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter generally viewed as being at odds with his sexual behaviour, including his erotic art and sexual abuse of his daughters. Gill was named Royal Designer for Industry, the highest British award for designers, by the Royal Society of Arts. He also became a founder-member of the newly established Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry.". Very Good in Poor dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 35368

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated Editions Geoffrey Chaucer George Philip Krapp Troilus And Cressida Poetry Eric Gill Illustrated Editions Literary Guild Illustrated editions

COHEN, ALLEN (EDITOR)

The San Francisco Oracle, Collectors Edition the Psychedelic Newspaper of the Haight-Ashbury, 1966-1968 (Facsimile Edition)

Oakland, CA: Regent Press, 1991. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0916147126. SIGNED EDITION. Limited Trade edition. (NOT the deluxe edition numbered and signed by several of the artists. ) Folio sized book. This copy has been signed, with a short inscription, by the editor Allen Cohen. The book is in Near Fine condition and is still in it's original cardboard shipping holder. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are several promotional fliers and mailers. "The initial impetus for the paper came from Allen Cohen and head shop owners Ron and Jay Thelin, who offered to put up the seed money to found an underground paper. In the summer of 1966 a number of meetings were held in the Haight-Ashbury district to discuss the idea of starting a paper, attracting an eclectic group of interested people. The result of these meetings was a paper called P. O. Frisco which lasted for a single 12-page tabloid issue dated September 2, 1966, under the editorship of Dan Elliot and Richard Sassoon (a 31-year-old Yale-educated poet who had once been Sylvia Plath's boyfriend) , operating out of a storefront on Frederick Street in cooperation with members of the radical Progressive Labor Party. "P. O." stood for "Psychedelphic Oracle," a title suggested by Bruce Conner. P. O. Frisco was a compromise between the various factions involved in founding the paper which wound up satisfying no one, and the Thelin brothers threatened to terminate their financial support unless the paper was completely reinvented. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Editor. Near Fine .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 42290

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: 0916147126 Illustrated Editions Allen Cohen The San Francisco Oracle Psychadelia San Francisco 1960's Art Illustrated editions

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Illustrated By Gustave Dore)

San Francisco, CA: Chas. R. Wood and Associates, 1952. Facsimile. Hardcover. This is a folio sized hardcover. This is copy 109 of an edition limited to 350 copies - A Facsimile of the 1884 New York edition. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is a heavy cardstock chemise cover. The book is in clean, bright condition. The text pages are crisp and clean. The chemise is in Very Good condition, with several spots of discoloration and ground-in dirt.. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 45638

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated Editions Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Poetry Gustave Dore Seagulls

CROTHERS, SAMUEL MCCHORD

The Children of Dickens

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and is missing the accompanying dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. This copy has a full sized rectangular pictorial pastedown illustration which is in very clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are ten full color, full sized plates by Jessie Willcox Smith. "Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was one of the most prominent female illustrators in the United States during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was a prolific contributor to respected books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, including the long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and then creating all the covers from December 1917 to 1933. Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses.". Near Fine .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 33981

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated editions Samuel McChord Crothers Jessie Willcox Smith Charles Dickens Short Stories Illustrated editions

DULAC, EDMUND (ILLUSTRATOR)

Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights

London, England: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. Color Illustrations; This book is in Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have bumping, rubbing and wear, along with paper loss, mostly to the corners and edges. The front cover has splotches of rubbing as well. The front paper label is in clean, bright condition. The spine paper label has edge wear, and several spots of rubbing and chipping. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is one spot of discoloration to the bottom edge of the half title page. All text pages have decorated edges. Illustrated with 23 tipped in plates with captioned tissue guards. "The first known reference to the Nights is a 9th-century fragment. It is next mentioned in 947 by al-Mas? Udi in a discussion of legendary stories from Iran, India, and Greece, as the Persian Hazar afsana, “A Thousand Tales, ” “called by the people ‘A Thousand Nights’. ” In 987 Ibn al-Nadim adds that Abu Abdus al-Jahshiyari began a collection of 1,000 popular Arabic, Iranian, Greek, and other tales but died (942) when only 480 were written. It is clear that the expressions “A Thousand Tales” and “A Thousand and One…” were intended merely to indicate a large number and were taken literally only later, when stories were added to make up the number." "Edmund Dulac (born Edmond Dulac; October 22, 1882 – May 25, 1953) was a French-born, British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born in Toulouse he studied law but later turned to the study of art at the École des Beaux-Arts. He moved to London early in the 20th century and in 1905 received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters. During World War I, Dulac produced relief books and when after the war the deluxe children's book market shrank he turned to magazine illustrations among other ventures. ". Good+ .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 35443

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated Editions Edmund Dulac Arabian Nights Sinbad The Sailor Illustrators Fantasy

ELBERTUS, FRA (PSEUDONYM OF ELBERT HUBBARD)

The City of Tagaste

East Aurora, NY: Roycroft Shop, 1900. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Minnie Gardner. Illumination; This edition is limited to 940 signed copies - this is copy 162. Tthe book has been hand illuminated by Minnie Gardner. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking the dust jacket and the box. The book has a tan quarter suede leather binding (leather spine and corners) with a leather spine label, gilt lettering on the spine and front cover and what looks like black blotter paper boards. The book covers have noticeable rubbing and wear. There are a couple of small chips of leather removed, and spots of the sued has ground-in finger dirt and rubbing. There are spots of discoloration to both front and rear covers of the book. The endpapers are the same black blotter paper (it might be handmade paper). The text pages are thick, creamy handmade paper with at least two Roycrofters watermarks. There is a tipped on photo of Elbert Hubbard on the frontispiece. There is a previous owner's ink stamped nate and address on the first free page. Several of the text pages have spots of foxing. "His best-known work came after he founded Roycroft, an Arts and Crafts community in East Aurora, New York in 1895. This grew from his private press which he had initiated in collaboration with his first wife Bertha Crawford Hubbard, the Roycroft Press, inspired by William Morris' Kelmscott Press. Although called the "Roycroft Press" by latter-day collectors and print historians, the organization called itself "The Roycrofters" and "The Roycroft Shops"." (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Very Good .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 46429

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Fra Elbertus Elbert Hubbard

FIELD, EUGENE

Poems of Childhood

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and has the scarce dust jacket in Good condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing, bumping and fading to the very edges of the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the half title page. This copy includes 8 full page, full color illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and small chips missing, especially to the front spine joint and top edge. The Book cover has a full size pictorial pastedown in fine condition and there is a rectangular pictorial pastedown on the front panel of the dust jacket as well (in Near Fine condition). This book can be dated to 1929 by the addition of Smoky - by Will James on the rear cover of the dust jacket and the lack of tissue guards to the illustrated plates.. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 43862

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated editions Eugene Field Maxfield Parrish Scribner Illustrated Classics Adventure Poems

FISHER, HARRISON

Bachelor Belles

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908. Early Reprint; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Harrison Fisher and Theodore Hapgood. B&W and Color Illustrations; This is a tall hardback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The front cover of the book has a rectangular pictorial pastedown in Very Good condition. There is one very small chip to the top edge of the pictorial pastedown, along with several small / faintish spots of foxing. There is a tiny bit of bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers are illustrated with decorations and there are spots of foxing on them. This book includes a group of previously published poems (mostly) , side by side with some of Harrison Fisher's famous illustrations of young women. "Fisher was born in Brooklyn, New York City and began to draw at an early age. Both his father and his grandfather were artists. Fisher spent much of his youth in San Francisco, and studied at the San Francisco Art Association. In California he studied with Amédée Joullin. In 1898, he moved back to New York and began his career as a newspaper and magazine illustrator, working for the San Francisco Call and the San Francisco Examiner, drawing sketches and decorative work. He became known particularly for his drawings of women, which won him acclaim as the successor of Charles Dana Gibson. Together with fellow artists Howard Chandler Christy and Neysa McMein, he constituted the Motion Picture Classic magazine's, "Fame and Fortune" contest jury of 1921/1922, who discovered the It-girl, Clara Bow. Fisher's work appeared regularly on the cover of Cosmopolitan magazine from the early 1900s until his death. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 46689

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated Editions Harrison Fisher Illustrators

FRANCE, ANATOLE (TRANSLATED BY MRS. WILFRID JACKSON WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILLIAM J. LOCKE)

At the Sign of the Reine Pédeauque

London, England: John Lane / the Bodley Head, 1922. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Frank C. Papé. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. Black cloth boards have gilt lettering and illustrations on both front and spine. There is some light bumping, rubbing and light fraying to the spine ends and corners of the book covers along with a light cracking to the cloth at the bottom front spine joint. The cloth has some light rubbing and several spots of ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers are fully illustrated and there are 12 full page black and white illustrations, along with head and tail pieces and other small illustrations throughout by Frank C. Papé. "Papé's first known work, for Emile Clement's Naughty Eric and Other Stories from Giant, Witch, and Fairyland, published in 1902, remains extremely rare. One copy is held by The British Library. An original pen and ink illustration from one of the stories, 'The Magic Stone', has been found in Sussex, England. "Falcon the Hunter" from The Russian Story Book (1916) Papé's next earliest illustrations are found in books for children from around 1908, including The Toils and Travels of Odysseus (1908) , a translation of The Odyssey by C. A. Pease; and Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1910). During the second decade of the 20th century, he made extensive contributions to the a number of collections of fairy, folk and other children's tales, as well as illustrating a collection of the Psalms. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 44949

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated editions Anatole France Frank C. Papé Mrs. Willfrid Jackson William J. Locke Satire

FRANKLIN, COLIN

Themes in Aquatint

San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1978. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; Limited to 500 unnumbered copies (printed at Cambridge University Press with colour plates printed at the Curwen Press, London). The Book Club of California Volume # 160. Typographical design by John Dreyfus. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a small, inked previous owner's name on the rear pastedown page. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy includes the plain, unprinted original dust jacket, which has been marked with the title and date on the spine by a helpful former owner. The dust jacket has several edge tears and some light toning / sunning. "Aquatint is an intaglio printmaking technique, a variant of etching that produces areas of tone rather than lines. For this reason it has mostly been used in conjunction with etching, to give both lines and shaded tone. It has also been used historically to print in colour, both by printing with multiple plates in different colours, and by making monochrome prints that were then hand-coloured with watercolour. Demonstration sections of printed aquatint, magnified. It has been in regular use since the later 18th century, and was most widely used between about 1770 and 1830, when it was used both for artistic prints and decorative ones. After about 1830 it lost ground to lithography and other techniques. There have been periodic revivals among artists since then. An aquatint plate wears out relatively quickly, and is less easily reworked than other intaglio plates. Many of Goya's plates were reprinted too often posthumously, giving very poor impressions. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 45005

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated editions Colin Franklin The Book Club of Californina Printing Aquatint Illustration techniques Color Illustration Art

GRAHAME, KENNETH

The Golden Age

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1905. 1st Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. B&W Illustrations; 1st US Illustrated Edition with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing, bumping and beginning edge wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is noticeable toning / darkening to the spine, spine joints and foredge of the book covers. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is a tear to the illustration page. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. " (Kenneth Grahame)...While still a young man in his 20s, Grahame began to publish light stories in London periodicals such as the St. James Gazette. Some of these stories were collected and published as Pagan Papers in 1893, and, two years later, The Golden Age. These were followed by Dream Days in 1898, which contains The Reluctant Dragon. There is a ten-year gap between Grahame's penultimate book and the publication of his triumph, The Wind in the Willows. During this decade, Grahame became a father. The wayward headstrong nature he saw in his little son Alastair (also known as "Mouse") he transformed into the swaggering Mr. Toad, one of its four principal characters. Despite its success, he never attempted a sequel." (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .

S. Howlett-West BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 43861

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated editions Kenneth Grahame Maxfield Parrish Fantasy