RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB

An Old Sweetheart of Mine

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. B&W Illustrations; Ths is an early printing of the expanded version of the poem -- this published under the Bobbs-Merrill company statement, not Bowen-Merrill Co. The book is in Very Good condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition with green cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front cover and green and orange decorations to both the spine and front cover. There is an oval pictorial pastedown illustration on the front cover which has some beginning rubbing and edge wear. There are several very small spots with beginning fraying to the edges of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright . The endpapers are illustrated in pinkish - red. Illustrated throughout with nineteen black and white plates by Howard Chandler Christy, with decorations (in pinkish red) by Virginia Keep. The bottom corner of the rear pastedown page has been pulled leaving a triangular section (approximately four inches long by three inches tall by two+ inches deep) with the colored decoration removed (the top layer of paper with the decorations is pulled off, leaving the bottom layer visible). "From the 1920s until the early 1950s, Christy was active as a portrait painter whose sitters included presidents, senators, industrialists, movies stars, and socialites. He painted Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and Presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Harry Truman. Other famous people he painted include William Randolph Hearst, the Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) , Eddie Rickenbacker, Benito Mussolini, Prince Umberto, and Amelia Earhart. By 1938, Time magazine proclaimed Christy "the most commercially successful U. S. Artist." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 43900

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RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB

An Old Sweetheart of Mine

Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1902. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends, corners and spine joints of the book covers have some rubbing, bumping and fraying. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There are several spots of foxing throughout. There is a previous owner's inked gifnt notation on the front endpaper. "Howard Chandler Christy (January 10, 1872 – March 3, 1952) was an American artist and illustrator, famous for the "Christy Girl" – a colorful and illustrious successor to the "Gibson Girl" – who became the most popular portrait painter of the Jazz Age era. Christy painted such luminaries as Lt. Col. Theodore Roosevelt, and Presidents Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Harry Truman. Other famous people he painted include William Randolph Hearst, the Prince of Wales (Edward the VIII) , Eddie Rickenbacker, Benito Mussolini, Prince Umberto and Amelia Earhart. From the 1920s until the 1940s, Christy was well known for capturing the likenesses of congressmen, senators, industrialists, movies stars, and socialites." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 37820

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Keywords: Illustrated Editions James Whitcomb Riley Howard Chandler Christy Illustrated Virginia Keep Poems Poetry American Poetry

SEARLE, RONALD (WRITTEN BY LEO ROST AND ROBIN MILLER)

Dick Deadeye

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151256004. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. Color Illustrations; Based on the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There are two small bumps to the bottom edges of the book cover. The endpapers have some light, generalized toning. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some generalized toning to the white portions and some beginning edge wear to the spine ends and corners. Based on " the full-length animated film Dick Deadeye, written and produced by Leo Rost and Robin Miller." "The Ultimate Secret has been stolen. The trouble is, it's so secret that no one knows what it is. Obviously it has to be retrieved, and Dick Deadeye is just the man to do it." "Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch. [6] His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle. He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge. He collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books (Down With Skool! , 1953, and How to be Topp, 1954) , and with Alex Atkinson on travel books. In addition to advertisements and posters, Searle drew the title backgrounds of the Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder film The Happiest Days of Your Life.". Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 35286

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Keywords: 0151256004 Illustrated editions Ronald Searle Leo Rost Robin Miller Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Operetta Humor Illustration

SEARLE, RONALD

Hello-Where Did All the People Go?

Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1969. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0297179225. Illustrated by Ronald Searle. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends, corners and edges. "After moving to Paris in 1961, he worked more on reportage for Life and Holiday and less on cartoons. He also continued to work in a broad range of media and created books (including his well-known cat books) , animated films and sculpture for commemorative medals, both for the French Mint and the British Art Medal Society. Searle did a considerable amount of designing for the cinema, and in 1965, he completed the opening, intermission and closing credits for the comedy film Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines as well as the 1969 film Monte Carlo or Bust! .". Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 34944

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Keywords: 0297179225 Illustrated Editions Ronald Searle Humor Snails Illustrated editions

SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

The Seven Ages of Man from Shakespeare's As You Like It

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Co, 1885. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The bottom spine end of the book covers has a chip missing. There is also a one inch spot of fraying to the front spine joint. The taupe colored cloth has spots of ground-in dirt and discolorations to both front and rear covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's gift notation on thefirst free page. The book is illustrated by various artists, including: F. S. Church, Wm. St. John Harper, Thomas Hovenden, Gilbert Gaul, A. B. Frost, W. T. Smedley and Walter Shirlaw.. Very Good- .

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Book number: 45004

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Keywords: Illustrated Editions William Shakespeare Engravings As You Like It Gift Books Artists' Edition F. S. Church William St. John Harper

SHEPHARD, ESTHER

Paul Bunyan

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good only dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The book is illustrated throughout with artwork by Rockwell Kent. The dust jacket has edge wear, several medium sized tears, along with one four inch semi-closed tear. There are several chips missing to the spine ends, corners and edges of the dust jacket as well. "A transcendentalist and mystic in the tradition of Thoreau and Emerson, whose works he read, Kent found inspiration in the austerity and stark beauty of wilderness. After Monhegan, he lived for extended periods of time in Winona, Minnesota (1912–1913) , Newfoundland (1914–15) , Alaska (1918–19) , Vermont (1919–1925) , Tierra del Fuego (1922–23) , Ireland (1926) , and Greenland (1929; 1931–32; 1934–35). His series of land and seascapes from these often forbidding locales convey the Symbolist spirit evoking the mysteries and cosmic wonders of the natural world. "I don't want petty self-expression", Kent wrote, "I want the elemental, infinite thing; I want to paint the rhythm of eternity.". Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 34954

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Keywords: Illustrated Editions Esther Shephard Rockwell Kent Paul Bunyan Folklore Legends And Stories Illustrated editions

SMITH, NORA ARCHIBALD

Boys and Girls of Bookland

Philadelphia, PA: David Mckay Company, 1923. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The book covers have some beginning edge wear and bumping. The there is a square pictorial pastedown on the front cover of the book. The bottom rear spine joint of the book cover has asmall wrinkled tear, with some light bumping. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, though starting to tone due to the acid content of the paper. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. Included are 11 full page, full color illustrations 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." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 46619

Catalogue: Illustrated Editions

Keywords: Illustrated editions Nora Archibald Smith Jessie Willcox Smith Short Stories Fairytales Folklore Bookland

TENNYSON, ALFRED

Enoch Arden

New York, NY: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1888. Trade Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett and Chas. Copeland. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized book (folio sized) (9.5" x 10.5 ") The book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers are decorated with silver, gilt, black and green in the shape of waves, a bird and blossoms. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have edge wear, rubbing and beginning fraying. The cover edges are beveled. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers are illustrated in a green and black leaf motif. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the half title page. Several of the gathers are a bit loose. The drawings are by Edmund H. Garrett and Chas Copeland, with engraving and printing under the supervision of George T. Andrew. "The story could be considered a variation on and antithesis to the classical myth of Odysseus, who, after an absence of 20 years at the Trojan War and at sea, found a faithful wife who had been loyally waiting for him. The use of the name Enoch for a man who disappears from the lives of his loved ones is surely inspired by the biblical character Enoch. In fact, also the entire chronological structure of the protagonist's life with its cycles related to the biblical symbolism of the "days of Creation" binds to the name of Enoch, as demonstrated by the analysis of an Italian thinker long interested in this work, and denotes Tennyson's ability to insert theological intentions into simple elegiac mode with an unprecedented complexity in English literature." (From Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 47851

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Keywords: Illustrated Editions Alfred Tennyson Edmund H. Garrett Charles Copeland Poetry Death

TWAIN, MARK (SAMUEL L. CLEMENS)

The Prince and the Pauper a Tale for Young People of All Ages

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1917. Early printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Franklin Booth. Color Illustrations; This is an Early printing thus - with the code K-R (October, 1917). 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 bowing to the covers of the book. This book has a pictorial pastedown surrounded by gilt rules. There is some dulling / fading to the gilt rules on the front cover, and most lettering on the spine is faded away. The cover edges have some fading and water spotting that has been repaired by a former owner. The text pages are clean and bright. This book includes seven full page, full color plates by Franklin Booth. "Franklin Booth, (July 8, 1874 – August 28, 1948) was an influential American artist known for his highly detailed pen-and-ink illustrations..Booth was primarily a commercial artist, and his illustrations appeared in The Century Magazine, Everybody's Magazine, McClure's, Cosmopolitan, Redbook, Good Housekeeping, House & Garden and Ladies' Home Journal. He also created advertising art for Bulova Watches, Estey Organ, GE, Overland, Paramount Pictures, Rolls-Royce, Studebaker, Wallace Silver and Whitman's Candy. Booth lived in the suburban city of New Rochelle, a well known artist colony and home to many of the top commercial illustrators of the day." "Twain wrote The Prince and the Pauper having already started The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain wrote, "My idea is to afford a realizing sense of the exceeding severity of the laws of that day by inflicting some of their penalties upon the King himself and allowing him a chance to see the rest of them applied to others..." [1] Having returned from a second European tour which formed the basis of A Tramp Abroad (1880) , Twain read extensively English and French history. Initially intended as a play, it was originally set in Victorian England, before he decided to set it further back in time.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 42674

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Keywords: Illustrated Editions Mark Twain Samuel L. Clemens Twins History Impostors

VOLTAIRE, M. DE (INTRODUCTION BY DAVID GARNETT)

Zadig

New York: Rimington & Hooper, 1929. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. Illustrated by Valenti Angelo. B&W Illustrations; The Savoy Editions (issue number one). Limited to 999 unnumbered copies. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the slipcase. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine and edges of the book covers have light, but noticeable toning. The text pages are clean and bright. There are four small spots of browning / discoloration to the front inner hinge. Illustrated throughout with monochrome illustrations in brown ink. "Zadig ou la Destinée (Zadig, or The Book of Fate; 1747) is a novel and work of philosophical fiction by the Enlightenment writer Voltaire. It tells the story of Zadig, a philosopher in ancient Babylonia. The author does not attempt any historical accuracy, and some of the problems Zadig faces are thinly disguised references to social and political problems of Voltaire's own day. It was originally published as Memnon in Amsterdam (with a false imprint of London given) and first issued under its more familiar title in 1748. The book makes use of the Persian tale The Three Princes of Serendip. It is philosophical in nature, and presents human life as in the hands of a destiny beyond human control." "Valenti Angelo (1897-1982) (variant name Valenti Michael Angelo) was an Italian-American printmaker, illustrator and author, born June 23, 1897 in Massarosa, Italy. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1905, living first in New York City then settling in Antioch, California. At the age of nineteen, Angelo moved to San Francisco, working by day as a labourer and spending his evenings and weekends at libraries and museums. He soon became a versatile artist and an especially skilled engraver and printer. Angelo's favoured medium was the linocut.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 33426

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Keywords: Illustrated Editions Voltaire Zadig David Garnett Valenti Angelo Limited Editions Illustrated editions

WARDEN, R. D.

C.M. Russell Boyhood Sketchbook

Bozeman, MT: Treasure Products, 1972. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by C. M. Russell. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized, square book with figured leatherette covers with raised lettering and a gilt portrait on the front cover. The book is in mostly clean bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. Laid-in is an errata sheet. "Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 – October 24, 1926) , [1][2] also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West. He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures. He is known as "the cowboy artist"[3] and was also a storyteller and author. He became an advocate for Native Americans in the west, supporting the bid by landless Chippewa to have a reservation established for them in Montana. In 1916, Congress passed legislation to create the Rocky Boy Reservation. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine .

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Book number: 46771

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Keywords: Illustrated Editions R. D. Warden C. M. Russell Sketchbooks Illustrators Western Americana Americana Art