Frank pape illustrations (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1936. First edition [1936]. Illustrated history of the stone-age people geared for children, with black and white drawings by Pape throughout. Includes: The Discovery of Fire; Fierce Animal Enemies; Stone for Tools and Weapons; Early Cooking and Sewing; Taming the Dog; Early Boats; Cave Artists at Work; Taming the Horse; Changes in the Late Stone Age; and A Reading List. Pictorial covers, 64 pages. Covers worn and lightly soiled, front endpaper and title page foxed, pages mainly quite clean. Old newspaper clipping mounted on inside front cover. No names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. Oblong 12mo.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Illustrated Edition. Xix, 243 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. Illustrated Endpapers. First Illustrated Edition, 1927, First Printing, October, One Month After First (Unillustrated) Edition, September. Light Usage, Cover Gilt Brilliant, Spine Cloth And Gilt Faded, Light Fraying At Corners. Light Pencil Emphasis Marks In Margins. Former Owner's Name And A Fe Marginal Emphasis Lines. Plates, Drawings In Text (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais, illustrated by English artist Frank C. Papé, is a celebrated and collectible two-volume edition of Gargantua and Pantagruel. First published in 1927 by John Lane The Bodley Head, this version features classic translations by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Motteux, complemented by Papé's detailed, humorous, and grotesque black-and-white illustrations (see images 2 & 3 for examples). This printing is from 1933. For further details see image (title page) with the full title and credits. Copyright © John Lane / Bodley Head.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine DJ. First Illustrated Edition Thus. Xxv, 359 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt Title On Spine, Elaborate Gilt Illustration By Frank Pape On Front Cover. First Illustrated Edition, 1928, Stated First Impression. Black Cloth, Gilt. Red Topstain, Map Endpapers In Brown And Red; Dj Printed In Black On Very Thin And Fragile Gilt-Faced Paper. Fine In Near Fine Dj, No Fading, No Tears Or Chips, Gilt Bright But With A Little Oxidation, Not Price Clipped.…

This book is in fine condition. Apparently it has never been read because one would need a paper knife to split the bottoms of the uncut pages. There is a small dent in the middle of the back cover but other than that this book is near perfect. Jacket is sturdy and attractive. There is a 2" closed split along the front joint, a narrow triangular piece missing along the top edge of the back panel, a 3/4" tear in the top edge of back panel and edges are a little ruffled. Overall it is very good. Large 8vo. bound in gold stamped black cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge stained red. 243 pp. Dust jacket is also black, though stamped in red First Impression of the Illustrated Edition printed October, 1927, ten years after the first edition of September 1917. With 12 illustrations by Frank C. Papé (illustrator).…

First Edition. One of 2,000 numbered copies, this being copy no.1,770. Octavo (25cm); black cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; red topstain; dustjacket and publisher's original black paper-covered slipcase; x,312,[2]pp, with frontispiece and 7 illustrated plates by Frank Papé. Some faint, scattered foxing to text edges; decorative label of The Sunwise Turn to lower rear pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.50), gently spine-sunned, with some wear, tears, and creases along the upper edge, and three tiny inked letters at upper spine; Very Good+ in like slipcase, showing some modest shelfwear, particularly around the opening. "An eighteenth-century French youth, imagining himself to be cast in the mold of a hero of chivalric romance, sets out to find his own Holy Grail, a fairytale princess; but this is the Age of Enlightenment, when the illusions of the past are to be set aside brutally, and he learns the extent of his self-delusion. Satire developing the Cervantean worldview in an uncompromisingly sarcastic manner" (Bleiler, Fantasy Literature 3-66). REGINALD 02400; SMITH C-10.…