campbell v floyd (8 Ergebnisse)

Pictorial Hard Cover. Zustand: Fair. V. Floyd Campbell (illustrator). Color frontispiece. The five stories are told in rhyme and have full-page and in-text b/w illustrations.The spine strip is mottled with faded spots. The front board has scrapes and stains, mostly in the margins. If there was a half-title page, it is missing. About a fourth of the pages have one or more stains on the bottom margins. The hinges have been repaired. The front edge of the back board is a little short of overlapping the text block's foredge. Scans e-mailed upon request.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. cover shows minor wear and rubbing, some loss at the corners. gift inscription on the ffep. pages tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Octavo, ix, xiii, xvi, 317 pages. In Good condition. Bound in the publisher's grayish blue cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have modest wear including sunning to the spine, modest edge wear with fraying to the spine head edge. Text block has head edge gilt and slight age toning to the fore/tail edges. Slight offsetting, foxing and faint age toning interiorly. Pictorial end papers. Frontispiece with tissue guard. Errata slip tipped in. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Q, ND-Q. 1393765. FP New Rockville Stock.

Zustand: Good. Color illustration by V. Floyd Campbell showing Teddy-G and Teddy-B (the G stood for gray and B for black), two bears from Colorado, tipping a "colored porter" as they prepare to board a Pullman car. The page is taken from The Roosevelt Bears, Their Travels and Adventures, the popular children's 1906 book by Seymour Eaton (1859-1916). Born in Ontario, Eaton began his career as a public-school teacher. In 1905 he created the Roosevelt Bears, which originally appeared in a serial that ran in 20 newspapers over 29 weeks during the height of President Teddy Roosevelt's popularity. Initially Eaton feared his reputation would suffer as a serious writer and so used a pen name (Paul Piper) until the series became popular. The stories were collected and expanded into this and later books. The print includes with the publisher name and date at bottom edge. Approx. 8 1/2 x 11" with border.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Later printing. Quarto. Illustrated paper covered boards. Lacking the dustwrapper. Good only. Pages loose from spine. Corners, edges of cover worn. Stains on cover.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. V. Floyd Campbell (illustrator). A charming continuation of Seymour Eaton's Traveling Bears saga illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings by V. Floyd Campbell, and a colour frontispiece. In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper-covered pictorial boards.With verses by Seymour Eaton (Paul Piper), a Canadian-born American author, journalist, editor, and publisher. He founded the Booklovers' Library in 1900 which became known as the world's largest circulating library, The Tabard Inn Library, and is credited with coining the name 'Teddy bear'.Illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings by V. Floyd Campbell.Aside from the bears engaging in several sports including hunting and fishing, and a visit to the zoo, they find time to engage in an epic baseball game, and travel to Washington to visit with Teddy Roosevelt.With a colour frontispiece. In the publisher's original quarter cloth with paper-covered pictorial boards.Externally, smart with the odd mark to the boards. Small loss of paper to left corner of front board. Light bumping to spine head and tail. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Later printing. Quarto. Illustrated paper covered boards. Lacking the dustwrapper. Very good. Cover corners and edges worn. Light scrape down the middle of the rear cover. Small ink stains on rear cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. Campbell, V. Floyd (illustrator). 1st Edition. Eaton, Seymour. THE ROOSEVELT BEARS: THEIR TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES by Seymour Eaton (Paul Piper); illustrated by V. Floyd Campbell. Philadelphia: Edward Stern & Company, Inc., 1906. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING; "Published September 1, 1906" on title page verso. 4to - 11-3/16" x 8-3/4". All edges tinted green. Dark green cloth backed dark green paper covered boards with full color paste label to front cover, and titles stamped in white to front cover and spine; minor wear to the bottom edges and fore edges, and light to moderate wear to the corners, and finally, a light abrasion by upper fore edge corner of the front cover, above the paste label, that has removed the surface of the paper but not all of it, for what is a very thorough and complete condition report on what is a very good copy of the book. 180 pp. Gift inscription dated "X mas 1906" to FFEP. "In merry jingle and with comic pictures are told the funny adventures of Teddy B. and Teddy G., 'the Roosevelt bears.' These intelligent bears one day determined to leave their home in the West and see the sights of the East." (The Publishers' Weekly [No. 1805] Sept. 1, 1906); many wonderful adventures are packed within the book's 180 pages. The book is illustrated by V. Floyd Campbell with a full color frontispiece, fifteen additional full page full color drawings, and black and white drawings, either full page or within text all throughout; internally the book is fine. The condition of the book is VERY GOOD +. This is a beautiful copy of the book.