artzybasheff boris illus (7 Ergebnisse)

softcover. Zustand: Fine copy. Illus. by Boris Artzybasheff (illustrator). Later prt. 8vo, 272 pp.

First Edition (?). Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 204 pages; Physical desc. : 204 p. : illus. , plates. ; 21 cm. Subject: Animal behavior. India - Social life and customs - Juvenile fiction. 3 Kg.

Pictorial Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Boris Artzybasheff (illustrator). Stated First Edition. 335 pgs. Brown cloth pictorially stamped in orange, gift inscription, bottom corner slightly bumped; pictorial dust jacket age-toned with light wear, original price intact ($2.00). A young engineer is sent to the Siberian gold fields to establish a modern mine. Jacket art, map endpapers, decorative initials and color frontis by Artzybasheff. Uncommon in dust jacket. Size: 8vo.

1st edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Date is suggested. Physical description: xi, 197 pages, 20 cm. Subjects: Pigeons, Fiction. 3 Kg.

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. First Edition. Small octavo; publisher's black cloth, purple gilt-lettered paste-ons to upper cover and spine, purple topstain, in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); 192pp.; half-tone frontispiece, full-page illus. throughout. Jacket significantly worn and rather soiled, splitting along flap folds and spine edges, two-inch loss at spine foot, corners bumps and spine label rather faded, else a Very Good copy in a Good only example of the fragile jacket. Collection of poems, dialogues, and vignettes on the topic of death, adorned with Artzybasheff's playfully macabre illustrations.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. First Edition Stated. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's cloth, red topstain, pictorial endpapers, in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price; xi,[3],274pp.; frontispiece, thirteen full-page illustrations and three maps, one of them double-paged. Dust jacket margins a bit chipped and worn with smallish losses at top edge of upper panel and spine crown briefly touching text, spine panel toned as usual, else a Near Fine example in a Very Good copy of the jacket. Compilation of some of the most famous stories from Herodotus, carefully chosen by the editor Gordon King to "introduce history as a living thing." Accompanied by the equally living illustrations of Russian-American artist Boris Artzybasheff, whose picture book "Seven Simons" was named a Caldecott Honor Book and whose illustrations were frequently featured in Life, Fortune, and Time magazines.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Slim octavo; publisher's cloth, red topstain, in cream pictorial dust jacket, custom cloth slipcase; xii,86pp.; woodcut frontispiece and illus. throughout, pictorial endpapers printed in red. Dust jacket verso reinforced with archival paper, heavy color touch-ups to extremities, especially along top margin of front panel, with evidence of prior shallow chips and tears along edges and various splits down folds; faint offsetting from woodcuts, else Near Fine in a Very Good albeit overly-restored copy of the uncommon dust jacket. Signed by Artzybasheff without inscription on half title.