Gordon ross illustrator (5 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Fair. New York, 1907; illustrated cloth covered boards; COVER ART NOT AS PICTURED IN STOCK PHOTO; edge wear; corners bumped; spine edges frayed; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; several illustrations detached but present; 103 pages.

Mass Market Paperback. Zustand: Good. First printing. Delightful edition with 75 original line-drawing illustrations. Classic "Pocketbook Edition". Plasticine peeling at edges. Wraps with minor wear at edges and corners.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards with color illustrations of bird children and black lettering. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1912, stated sixth edition. 95 pages. In good condition. Covers have some fading and rubbing to cloth. Bumping along edges, spine, and corners have caused wear to cloth, partially exposing binding beneath. Hinge on back cover is split, but appears to have been glued back down. Although covers are a bit faded, the illustration on front cover remains quite bright and clear. Previous pricing written on front free endpaper in pencil; otherwise pages are free of marks or tears, with color illustrations throughout. Front and rear gutters are cracked, but binding remains strong; covers are firmly attached and there are no loose pages. …

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1945. 8vo, xxviii, 198 pp. Signed by Ross on the colophon. Padded floral patterned cloth binding, red label with gilt lettering to backstrip, red cloth slipcase. Fine copy. § Limited edition of 1500 copies, signed by the illustrator, Gordon Ross. Prefatory notes by W. M. Thackeray. Printed by Richard Ellis at The Aldus Printers in New York. Gordon Ross (1872-1946) was a Scotsman who emigrated to San Francisco in 1894, studying painting and drawing at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute in San Francisco, and working in the art department of the San Francisco Chronicle. His first recorded illustrations were for War Poems, published by the Murdock Press in San Francisco in 1898. Signed.…

First Edition. Folio, pp. [8 (blank)], xxviii, [1], [1 (blank)], 36, [1], [3 (blank)], with 5 hand-coloured lithographic plates; title and 4 part-titles with vignettes and coloured by hand, numerous vignettes in text, frontispiece signed by the artist; contemporary purple morocco, boards filleted in blind to a geometric design, spine richly gilt and lettered directly, top-edge gilt; sunned and a little bumped, a few very small scuffs, nonetheless a very good copy.Limited edition, numbered 94 of 200 copies for sale, signed by the artist. A handsome edition with hand-coloured illustrations by the sporting watercolourist Gordon Ross (18731946). Language: English.…