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 .

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Book number: 33767

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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+ .

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Book number: 44587

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BLOCK, LAURIE (TEXT COMPILED BY)

An Odd Bestiary Or, a Compendium of Instructive and Entertaining Descriptions of Animals, Culled from Five Centuries of Traveler's Accounts. . . .

Urbana, IL: A Cheloniidae Press Book / Univ. of Illinois, 1986. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Alan James Robinson. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized book. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some toning / darkening to the spine and spine joints. There are several small edge nicks and tears to the spine ends and edges of the dust jacket.. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 49560

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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+ .

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Book number: 42224

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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 .

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Book number: 35368

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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 .

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Book number: 42290

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

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Book number: 35443

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

DURWOOD, T. A. (EDITOR)

Crimmer's: The Harvard Journal of Pictorial Fiction ((Winter 1975) Hogarth, Szep, Disney, Expressionism, Motion)

Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Journal of Pictorial Fiction, 1975. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine with illustrated cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the magazine covers have some light bumping and rubbing. There is a light crease to the bottom front corner of the cover. The top rear cover has some light spots of ground-in dirt. The text pages are clean and bright. The Contents include : Interview with Paul Szep by T. A. Durwood, The Image in Motion by T. W. King, Interview with Burne Hogarth, On Hogarth b y M. Wilson-Cline, Two Disney Artists, and Expressionism in Film by S. Gersor.. Very Good .

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Book number: 50848

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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 .

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Book number: 46429

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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 .

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Book number: 43862

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

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 .

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Book number: 45005

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

GAMBADO, GEOFFREY (PSEUDONYM OF HENRY BUNBURY) (ESQUIRE) (RIDING MASTER, MASTER OF THE HORSE, AND GRAND EQUERRY TO THE DOGE OF VENICE)

An Academy for Grown Horsemen: Containing the Completest Instructions

London, England: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1812. Hardcover. Illustrated by Henry Bunbury. Hand-Colored illustrations; Full Title: An Academy For Grown Horsemen: Containing The Completest Instructions .... And Also...annals Of Horsemanship: Containing Accounts Of Accidental Experiments And Experimental Accidents Both Successful and Unsuccessful: Communicated by Various Correspondents. Two Volumes in One - with both titles illustrated by Henry Bunbury. This copy is bound in full morocco leather bound by Root & Son with gilt rules to covers and embossed decorations to the spine (The spine gilding has rubbed noticeably. ) Both covers are detached. The endpapers are marbled and have gilt edgings. The text block is solid and in very nice clean, bright condition. AEG (All Edges Gilt) . The first book is illustrated with 17 hand-colored copper plate engravings by W. Dickinson after Bunbury. The second book, which is bound directly after the first has 11 hand-colored copperplate engravings by W. Dickinson after Bunbury. "BUNBURY, HENRY WILLIAM (1750–1811) , amateur artist and caricaturist, was born in 1750, being the second son of the Rev. Sir William Bunbury, bart, of Mildenhall in Suffolk. The Bunburys were an old Norman family who are mentioned in Stephen's time as established at Bunbury in Cheshire. Young Bunbury was educated at Westminster School, and afterwards at St. Catharine's Hall, Cambridge. Both at school and college he seems to have acquired an early reputation as a humorous draughtsman, going so far at Westminster as to etch ‘A Boy riding upon a Pig, ’ a copy of which is to be found in the British Museum Print Room; and at Cambridge accumulating a fair gallery of ungainly dons and awkward undergraduates. He drew chiefly in pencil, or black and red chalk; but, although he seems to have used the needle, he was never successful as an etcher, and his designs were generally reproduced by engravers, mostly in stipple or dot..." the volume of equestrian misadventures called ‘An Academy for Grown Horsemen, ’ by ‘Geoffrey Gambado, ’ 1st edition 1787, 2nd edition 1788. To 1788 (26 June) also belongs ‘The Country Club, ’ another of his designs much sought after by collectors. All these latter were engraved by W. Dickinson, who, like Bretherton, published many of Bunbury's productions. In 1791 appeared the ‘Annals of Horsemanship, ’ a kind of sequel to the ‘Academy for Grown Horsemen. ’ " (from Wikipedia). Good .

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Book number: 50758

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Keywords: Illustrated Editions Geoffrey Gambado Henry Bunbury Caricaturist Humor Horses Horsemanship Social Issues

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- .

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Book number: 43861

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HUTCHINSON, FREDERICK WINTHROP

The Men Who Found America

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1909. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by E. Roscoe Shrader and Herbert Moore. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. This book is difficult to find with the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with 8 full page, full-color plates. Each text page includes illustrated decorations by Edwin I. Prittie. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and chips missing (including a rather largish chip from the top rear edge) and hsa some generalized rubbing and ground-in dirt. "There is no country like unto this beautiful bourn of our children. Here are the dim, magic forests, the enchanted castgles, the deep, hidden caves, the secret tree-hollows, where dwell sparros and fairies and lost little children. In this land the princess is ever young and ever beautiful; the bold Prince Charming slays always the wicked, watchful dragon; the fierce Ogre, with his one malevolent eye forever eats the tender children at his ravenous evening meal" (what this has to do with American history is beyond me - that's just what the preface says).. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 39613

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Keywords: Illustrated editions Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson America American History Founding of America Explorers Exploration Exploration and Travel Illustrated editions

VON HUTTEN, BETTINA

The One Way out

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1906. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Harrison Fisher. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have some bumping, rubbing and wear. The bottom spine end of the book cover has several very small edge nicks. The full page pastedown illustration on the front cover has noticeable rubbing and wear to the corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a partial previous owner's inked gift notation to the front pastedown page. "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- .

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Book number: 43858

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Keywords: Illustrated editions Bettina von Hutten Harrison Fisher Golden Age of illustration American Girl Illustrators Art Nouveau Art Deco