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American Book Publishing Record: Cumulative 2003 (American Book Publishing Record: Cumulative) Rr Bowker Llc 2004-03
ISBN: 0835246299 Good

Ex-library reference book with usual stickers and markings. Hardcover

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MCKENNEY, Thomas Loraine (1785-1859) [and James HALL (1793-1868)]: History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred Portraits from the Indian Gallery in the War Department at Washington,

Philadelphia: Caxton Press of Sherman & Co. for D. Rice & Co., 1872-1874. 3 volumes (text: 2 volumes, royal 8vo [10 7/16 x 7 1/4 inches; atlas of plates. folio [20 x 14 inches]). Text: "Billy Bowlegs" portrait as frontispiece to volume II of text; atlas of plates: 120 hand-coloured lithographs after Karl Bodmer, Charles Bird King, James Otto Lewis, P. Rhindesbacher and R.M. Sully, drawn on stone by A. Newsam, A.Hoffy, Ralph Tremblay, Henry Dacre and others, printed and coloured by J.T. Bowen and others. Expertly bound to style in uniform navy half morocco over the original blue cloth-covered, richly gilt spines divided into five compartments with raised bands, lettered in the second and fourth, the others with repeat decorative motif built up from small tools, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. The last folio edition of one of the most important 19th-century works on the American Indian, and one of the most important colour plate books produced in America in the age of lithography The first folio edition was issued by E.C. Biddle from 1836 to 1844, and reissued by F.W. Greenough and Daniel Rice. The number of different printers and lithographers involved in the project speaks to the complicated production of the most elaborate plate book published in the United States up to that time. The present final edition of McKenney & Hall was issued by the firm of D. Rice, whose father took over the initial project as publisher in the early 1840's. This edition differs from the original folio edition in significant ways. Most importantly, a plate is added, the portrait of the Seminole chief Billy Bowlegs which appears as a frontispiece in the second text volume, making this the most complete form of the work. Also, this edition was published without the map, table, and facsimile signatures of subscribers which appeared in the original edition, and also removes James Hall's name from the titlepage, only crediting McKenney. This edition is also unusual for the number plates that are included with no publisher's credit line. The reason for this is not known, but Christopher W. Lane states that 'there was no single date at which these no-imprint variants were run off'. In other words, they could date from the 1830's onwards, although he goes on to note that their first recorded appearance is in an 1842 issue of volume I of the 3-volume folio edition. McKenney and Hall's Indian Tribes of North America has long been renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. The portrait plates are based on paintings by the artist Charles Bird King, who was employed by the War Department to paint the Indian delegates visiting Washington D.C., forming the basis of the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian, and their appearance in McKenney and Hall's magnificent work is thus our only record of the likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Numbered among King's sitters were Sequoyah, Red Jacket, Major Ridge, Cornplanter, and Osceola. After six years as Superintendent of Indian Trade, Thomas McKenney had become concerned for the survival of the Western tribes. He had observed unscrupulous individuals taking advantage of the Native Americans for profit, and his vocal warnings about their future prompted his appointment by President Monroe to the Office of Indian Affairs. As first director, McKenney was to improve the administration of Indian programs in various government offices. His first trip was during the summer of 1826 to the Lake Superior area for a treaty with the Chippewa, opening mineral rights on their land. In 1827, he journeyed west again for a treaty with the Chippewa, Menominee , and Winebago in the present state of Michigan. His journeys provided an unparalleled opportunity to become acquainted with Native American tribes. When President Jackson dismissed him from his government post in 1830, McKenney was able to turn more of his attention to his publishing project. Within a few years, he was joined by James Hall, a lawyer who had written extensively about the west. Both authors, not unlike George Catlin, whom they tried to enlist in their publishing enterprise, saw their book as a way of preserving an accurate visual record of a rapidly disappearing culture. (Gilreath). McKenney provided the biographies, many based on personal interviews, and Hall wrote the general history of the North American Indian. OCLC 35709791; this edition not in Field, Howes, or Sabin

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Morse, Willard S. and Gertrude Brinckle: HOWARD PYLE, A RECORD OF HIS ILLUSTRATIONS AND WRITINGS. Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 2003
Reprint of the 1921 first edition which was limited to 500 copies originally published by The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts (Besterman 5281). Howard Pyle, 1853-1911, American illustrator and writer, b. Wilmington, Del., studied at the Art Students League, New York City. His illustrations appeared regularly in Harper's Weekly, and in many other American magazines. He both wrote and illustrated tales of chivalry and adventure for young people, among them The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (1883), The Wonder Clock (1888), The Garden Behind the Moon (1895), and The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (1903). His illustrations are of marked individuality. Scenes from both medieval folklore and American history are rendered with engaging simplicity and penetrating realism. Pyle's reconstruction of the past, of which he had an exhaustive knowledge, were uniquely believable. He also painted murals and taught painting. In 1894 he became director of illustration at Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. In 1900 he started the Howard Pyle School of Art next to his own studio in Wilmington, and classes were offered free to a limited number of students. A large collection of his pictures is preserved at the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts. Pyle wrote many of the books and stories he illustrated, and though he will always be remembered first for his art, many of his books are considered classics and still in print or available in recent reprints. Most of these were illustrated with his distinctive pen & ink style that hearkened back to the wood-engraved images that were common during his childhood and early years of his career. He wasn't restricted to this more formal style, but seemed to gravitate towards it in pen illustrations for his own work. In all, over 750 books illustrated by Pyle are included.

8vo., cloth. x, 242 pages.

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Clarke, Nick: Alistair Cooke: A Biography, New York Arcade Publishing 1999
ISBN: 1559705485 Fine

xii, 546 pp., illus., biblio., index; 24 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First U.S. Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "A major biography of revered journalist Alistair Cooke that offers a revealing look at the man behind the celebrity known here to millions as the host of Masterpiece Theatre, and to the world as the author of the weekly Letter from America. One of the preeminent journalists of the twentieth century, Alistair Cooke has enjoyed a truly extraordinary, sixty-five year career in print, radio, and television. Throughout those years, Cooke has given only tantalizing glimpses of the man behind the well-known persona. Only in his late eighties did he allow a biographer, noted journalist Nick Clarke, unprecedented access to tell the whole compelling story of his life and times--a story filled with unexpected surprises. Born into a working-class family and christened Alfred, Cooke wasted no time in breaking free of his modest origins. By age fourteen, the ambitious youth had unofficially changed his name to Alistair (he made it official at twenty-two), and in short order he swept through prestigious Cambridge University and was soon an acquaintance of the Prince of Wales. Before his thirtieth birthday he had been befriended by Charlie Chaplin and hired by the fledgling BBC as a film critic. Drawing on a rich variety of private and public sources, not to mention hours of interviews with the enigmatic subject himself, Clarke shows how Cooke carved out for himself, with dogged determination, a unique position as the foremost reporter on American life and politics, first for the British press and eventually for the entire world. Settling in New York City in 1937 at the age of twenty-eight, Cooke focused his efforts on putting years of Anglo-American misunderstanding to rest. In 1946, he began his weekly radio program, Letter from America--which still airs to this day, and which is now broadcast to more than fifty countries worldwide. Cooke's story is also the story of the United States in the twentieth century. He has reported for decades on the events and personalities that have shaped this country--from the Great Depression through World War II, from the Cold War tensions of the'50s to the turbulence and social upheaval of the '60s, all the way up to the Clinton administration. Most astonishingly, at an age when many men might have moved sedately toward retirement, Cooke launched energetically into new careers, becoming a familiar television face to Americans on Omnibus and later the immensely popular Masterpiece Theatre, and completing his epic BBC series and book, America, one of several best-sellers he penned. Alistair Cooke: A Biography is both a fascinating record of one man's constant determination to reinvent himself, as well as a lively and informative journey through the highways and byways of the twentieth century. / Nick Clarke joined BBC TV News in 1973. Since 1989 he has been a BBC Radio presenter, first on The World This Weekend and since 1994 on The World at One. He is married and live in London." - Publisher. First American Edition Fine Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Collectible

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