And willard huntington wright (7 Ergebnisse)

Stapled. Zustand: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The January 1929 issue of The American Magazine. Contains - These Children Mind Their Mother, an article about Nature by poet Archibald Rutledge, part 4 of The Bishop Murder Case, a Philo Vance mystery by S S Van Dine (Willard Huntington Wright), and others , Numerous vintage ads. Condition issues include light edge wear with small chips to the covers and spine, a 1" closed tear at the top right of the spine, .5" loss at the bottom of the spine, remnants of a mail label on the front cover, some wrinkling to the top corner of pages 139 - 148, and light soiling to the rear cover. No cutouts or missing pages. A good to very good copy of a vintage magazine with a serial installment by a prominent and collectible author. Nell Hott (cover), Charles livingston Bull (These Children Mind Their Mother), H M Stoops (The Bishop Murder Case) (illustrator).…

Yellow cloth, pictorial cover. 1st Edition, second state. First book illustrated by Benton. weight: 1.1 lb. Very good, bookplate and ink names to endpapers, spine somewhat darkened, no dust jacket. 8 full-page illustrations by Thomas Hart Benton. 19.5x12.5 cm. 222 pp.

Beige Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Advance Copy. Hardcover. A Publisher's Dummy Of Wister's Book. From The Okey Estate. It Seems Probable That This Dummy Was Sent To Either The Hollywood Art Director Jack Okey (Whose Ownership Signature Is In The Book) Or To His Friend The Synchronist Artist Stanton Macdonald Wright To Suggest A Design For The Center Of The Cover And For Illustrations. Covers Have Lettering And Borders As On First Edition, But Lacking The Ornamental Design At The Center, With A Printed R At Both The Lower Left And Right Of The Inner Border, These Lacking In The Published Cover. There Are No Illustrations In The Book. The Title Page Does Not Mention An Illustrator, And The Copyright Page Reads "Published , 1911", Lacking The Month Of Publication. The Immediate Next Page Is P. 33 Of Sheets Of The Virginian [Also By Wister], Continuing To P. 48, The Rest Of The Pages Of The Book Being Without Printing. The Book Has The Ownership Signature Of Artist And Movie Art Director John Clark "Jack" Okey. There Follow Several Pages Written In Okey's Hand: There Is A Page With A Handwritten Paragraph: "Big Thoughts Are Like A Cool Clear Stream That Runs Down Through The Canyons Of Your Brains From Some Undiscovered Crevis [Sic] Or Spring And Flows Out Into The Sunlight From A Great Range Of Rugged Cold Dark Mountains. Sometimes That Stream Is Evaporated As Soon As It Comes Into The Sun-Shine Some Go And Grow Larger And Larger But Usually Sink Back Again Into The Cold Granite So Far From The Sea." The Next Pages Copy Out "Song Against Women", Two Pages, Noted As By Willard Hunting [Sic] Wright. [Wright, Brother Of Stanton Macdonald Wright, Is Better Known As S S Van Dine, And He Published This Poem In Smart Set, It Being Anthologized By 1913. Wright Came With His Family To Santa Monica, California In 1900; His Brother Stanton Macdonald Wright Traveled To Paris With Okey In 1909 To Attend Art School. Willard Wright Went To New York In 1911, Where He Became Editor Of Smart Set, And Where He Published "Modern Painting" (1915]; Stanton Wright Did A Portrait Of Him Circa 1913-1914, And Later Returned To California, Where He Was Active In The Wpa Art Project In The Nineteen Thirties. Jack Okey Was Art Director Of The 1934 Movie Of Wright/ Van Dine's "The Dragon Murder Case." ] The Next Two Pages Are An Essay, Beauty. Beauty Or The Beautiful, Has No Sex, No Meaning It Is A Thing By Its Self - Apart From Any Other Phase Of Life, It May Occur In A Thousand Ways And In As Many Places. It May Be An Accident Of Nature Or A Creature Of Mans Poetry, Music, Painting, Sculpture. It May Come Upon Us When We Least Expect It Or We May Have To Seek It For Years With An Expert Eye. It May Be Man Or Beast, Thought Or Simplicity, Field Or Sky, Sound Or Silence Or All Of Them. It May Be But One Line Among A Myriad Upon Some Etching. It May Be But One Cord [Sic] In A Great Symphonic Poem - It May Be But The Linking Of A Few Words Together Or The Relative Value Of Two Small [Undecipherable] Of Color On A Large Canvas. Or A Wonderfully Rought [Sic] Section Of Some Great Statuary. It Is Here There Everywhere If We Only Have The Faculty And Ability And Sympathy To See. Feel Or Hear Or Even Smell It. The Sun, Day, Life Motion Or A Silent Night May Hold It All For Us And It All Depends Upon Us, Our Frame Of Mind Or Mood." "Sadness Makes My Thoughts Wander Out Into The Night Light." "We Slide Into The Land Of Sleep On Moonbeams." The Next Two Pages Hold A Quote From Pater's The Renaissance": "For Her I Would Build With My Own Hands A House So Beautiful That Only The Beautiful Would Dare To Enter In" Etc.The Next Page Is A Long Quotation From Out There Somewhere By Henry Herbert Knibbs. The Remaining Pages Are Blank.…

First Edition. First edition. Second binding, stamped in gilt and black (versus gilt and blue). Illustrated with eight full-page plates by Thomas Hart Benton -- his first illustrations to appear in a book. Preliminaries show foxing and few spots of foxing to plate margins otherwise very good with only light soiling to covers.…

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Collectible; Very Good. 1st. The 1914 1st edition, 2nd issue. Solid and VG in its mustard cloth, with light wear to the spine ends and very light offsetting at the pastedowns and front and rear endpapers. 12mo, 222 pgs.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition, second binding, stamped in black and gilt. Illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. A good copy, a bit soiled and worn, with tanning and tiny tears on the spine, lacking the dustwrapper. The first book illustrated by Benton.

First edition. Inscribed by Wright. Thomas H. Benton. First edition. Inscribed by Wright. Plates by Thomas hart Benton. 222pp. 8vo. Inscribed by Wright on the endpaper to Charles A. Hughes. In addition, Wright has added the initials of the authors to each chapter on the contents page. On the best bars and night clubs of Europe, illustrated by Thomas Hart Benton. His first book illustration. Publisher's orange cloth, stamped in black and gold. Minor wear, a bit cocked, front hinge just starting Plates by Thomas hart Benton. 222pp. 8vo. Signed.…