Armstrong margaret illus (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition thus. First edition thus, the first with the Howard Chandler Christy coior illustrated plates. Hardcover in blue-green cloth ornately decorated with Mararet Armstrong designed cover and spine. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 169 pp. With color illustrated title page and 7 additional full page color illustrations by Christy. Very good, front gilt bright, narrow crescent tidemarks to the bottom of the pages not affecting the text. The story of Mr.George Fairfax, an old, widowed farmer in the Virginia mountains who is thought to be stern and unfriendly because he always wears black, but is actually kind and generous. He takes in a young orphan boy and tells the youth of his experience in the American Revolutionary War and of his lost love. The book was first published in 1896 but this, the preferred edition, has a number of things going for it that earlier editions did not: the beautful Howard Chandlet Christy illustrations, the Margaret Armstrong art nouveau binding design, and the famous printer, D.B. Updike of the Merrymount Press. Howard Chandler Christy (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Light green cloth lettered and decorated in dark green and with oval color illustration of a bulldog tipped onto front cover. 137 pp. With four full color plates by Harrison Fisher and additional ornate decorations on each page of text by Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong. Early reprint, still carrying oly the 1904 Dodd, Mead imprint on copyright page. Near fine, occasion foxing, plate at p.56 foxed. A nice example of an early 20th book illustrated by two of the major illustrators of the period.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 137 p. 20 cm. Colour frontispiece. 3 other colour plates by Fisher. Decorations by the Armstrongs. Green cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Chips, small holes, and tears to jacket edges. Dampstain to bottom right corner of jacket and bottom corners of book. Jacket spine darkened. Green cloth with pasted-on colour illustration of the dog. Spine ends softened.…

Zustand: Very Good Condition. First Edition. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers, [1908]. First Thus. Octavo (21.5cm); publisher's green decorative cloth blocked in gilt and cranberry red, top edge gilt; xii,319pp.; photogravure frontispiece, thirty-two (32) halftone photographic plates (collated complete). Light shelf wear to cloth margins with very brief fraying and pinpoint exposure at corners, textblock lightly toned, else a Very Good, bright and sound example. Leaflet advertising the publisher's Sesame Booklets series laid in. BAL 20215.…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1901. Early Printing. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's pictorial cloth in decorative green dust jacket, binding and dust jacket signed in image "MA"; [8],111pp.; frontispiece, four leaves of plates (tissue guards), green and black vignettes, text printed within decorative green and black border throughout. Jacket rather chipped along margins with a few shallow losses not approaching text, spine panel darkened, jacket cleanly split along upper spine edge, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper else a Very Good copy in a Good example of the jacket. …