margaret pyle (8 Ergebnisse)

Decorative Cloth. Zustand: Good. ARMSTRONG, MARGARET (BINDING DESIGNER), Pyle, Howard (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. Dark blue cloth binding with elaborate gold, green and blue floral design by Margaret Armstrong (her initials MA blindstamped to front board). Gilt titles with repeat of design on spine, top edge gilt. 299 pp. rough cut. Contemporary PO on ffep, 1902 inscription on second free endpaper. Frontispiece illustration in color, plus seven additional illustrations by J. R. Weguelin, F. V. DuMond, Arthur Heming, Howard Pyle, and C. K. Linson. Boards rubbed, edgeworn, fraying top and bottom of spine, light stain to bottom of front board.

Couverture souple. Zustand: Bon. Rackham, Pyle, Smith, Robinson, Parrish, Dulac, Bosschère, Bransom, Detmold, Nielsen, Lathrop, Mackensie, Clarke (illustrator). David LARKIN-Margaret MALONEY LE ROYAUME FANTASTIQUE-SELECTION D'ILLUSTRATIONS DE CONTES POUR ENFANTS 1974, Paris, Edition Chêne Format : In- (30 x 22 cm), broché, 14 pages et planches 40 planches hors textes de Rackham, Pyle, Smith, Robinson, Parrish, Dulac, Bosschère, Bransom, Detmold, Nielsen, Lathrop, Mackensie, Clarke Etat : livre solide, très bon état poids : 650g.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Illustrated by Howard Pyle (illustrator). Later Edition. This publisher did later reprints, but in this case all 8 of the Howard Pyle illustrations from the 1st are present, and the book's beautiful front cover - the same pictorial cloth binding as the first edition - has been nicely preserved by the scarce dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Apparently second state, lacking "Chelsea" on p. 5. A handsome copy of this rather scarce Pyle title. Light shelf/edge wear, owner signatures at ffep and title page, light duststaining at top of text block, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elements, color pictorial/decorative elements, frontispiece. 12mo. 360pp plus 4pp ads. Illus. (b/w plates). Very Good+ (Textblock Near Fine). No DJ.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. viii, 281 pp. ; metallic gold and mauve cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; dustjacket has some fading, nicks on edges ; Contents: What We Are And What We Can Do / George A. Sweetser John Horace Mcfarland, L.H.D. R. C. Allen, Robert Pyle, Louis M. Massey, Arthur F. Truex -- Living With Roses / Mrs. P. D. Fulwood -- Pros, Cons and Nature / A. B. Albera -- Malmaison: Birthplace Of Modern Roses / Josephine Craven Chandler -- Vernal, Utah, Shows The Way / Paul Dougherly -- The Roses In Colonial Virginia / Charles A. Dawson -- Outline For Rose Culture / Mrs. R. M. Allred -- Rose Interest In Florida / Nixon Smiley -- Rose Growing In South Carolina / C. R. Raysor -- Roses In Mississippi / Thomas B. Kennedy -- 'And The Desert Shall Bloom Like A Rose" / Mrs. George Doolittle -- Roses In Adobe / Mrs. A. B. Gowens -- Cultural Practices For The Central Southwest / Lem H. Tithe -- Roses In Cold Climes / A. L. Truax -- Poor Rose Plants / Mrs. Webster Wagner -- 2,4-D Injury On Roses / Dr. P. W. Zimmerman -- Fables and Fancies In Rose Growing / Professor A. H. MacAndrews -- Abnormalities-Variety Traits Or Disease / Dr. B. W. Lyle -- Insects and Insecticides / Dr. O. S. Hensill -- The Diagnosis and Treatment Of A Rosarian / Dr. E. C. Hamblen -- Soil Nitrate Levels and The Growth Of Roses / Dr. John O. Seeley -- My Garden (A Poem) / Mabel O. Hatton -- Ground Corncobs: A Labor Saver / Morgan D. Reinbold -- Horticultural Vermiculite In Rose Culture / Arthur E. Navlet -- Long And Short Pruning / Dixon Vallance -- Prepackaging Of Roses / Professor Alex Laurie -- Row To Make Cut Roses Last / Edwin F. Steffek -- May Is The Month Of Roses / Jessie Brice -- Nicholson Bowl Award -- Plant Hunters / Dr. Wilber Stout -- Alister Clark / Harry H. Hazlewood -- My Favorite Roses / Roy Shepherd -- Jesse A. Currey-A Great American Rosarian / Quimby L. Matthews -- The Advance Guard / Margaret Snyder -- A New Basis Of Variety Classification / Ralph Moore -- The Forgotten Roses / Oliver Linton Lilley -- A New Use For An Old Plant / Stanley A. Matzke -- Understocks For Roses / George M. Taylor -- The Rose Named Liberty / Dr. James A. Gamble -- New Varieties For The Extreme North / Percy H. Wright -- Mistakes In Growing Roses / George A. Sweetser -- On Pruning Roses / Alfred Stettler -- Cold Hardiness / Griffith J. Buck -- Modern Hardy Climbers In New England / Karl P. Jones -- Roses Are Flourishing In South Africa / John E. Crewe Brown -- Hybridizing: Fascinating Year-Round Hobby / Mrs. K. Melvin Covington -- Meaning In The Rose / Morgan T. Riley -- Bibliography Of The Language Of Flowers -- Proof Of The Pudding -- New Roses Of The World -- Index -- Illustrations -- Facing -- Jesse A. Currey, First Curator O The International Rose Test Garden -- Hedge Plantings Of Rosa Multiflora -- Main (In Color) -- Tallyho (In Color) -- A New Rose In The Making -- Golden Anniversary (In Color) -- Lavender Pinocchio (In Color) -- Rose Of Freedom (In Color) -- Holiday (In Color) -- California Centennial (In Color) -- Facing Page -- Dr. J. Horace Mcfarland, President Emeritus, American Rose -- Society -- Grace Moore (In Color) -- Gardens At Malmaison -- Valiant (In Color) -- Gay Gypsy (In Color) -- Effect Of 2,4-D On Plants -- Anna Marie (In Color) -- Forty-Niner (In Color) -- Applause (In Color) ; G/G. Book.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Howard Pyle (illustrator). A pleasing first edition of Margaret Deland's short-story collection set in an old New England town. The first edition, later issue with "Upper Chester" instead of "Upper Chelsea" to page 5.In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen illustrative plates by Howard Pyle. Collated, complete.These stories vividly depict characters in an old New England town. Written by Margaret Deland, an American novelist, short story writer and poet, who is generally considered part of the literary realism movement.Bearing the bookplate of Nicolas McDowall to the front pastedown. Nicolas McDowall established the Old Stile private press with his wife Frances. Working collaboratively with printmakers and artists, the Old Stile press created beautiful, hand-printed works within idyllic surroundings. In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, very smart, with light rubbing to the extremities and darkening to the spine. Bookplate of one Nicolas McDowall to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with a small contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Margaret Armstrong Cover;Frontispiece; Photographic Plate; Six Color Plates, One By Howard Pyle (illustrator). 1st Edition. Leather / Boards. First Edition. Signed, Limited Edition. 299 pp. #250 of 500 copies of the signed, numbered limited edition. Gilt design on front and back covers designed and signed (twice each) "MA" (Margaret Armstrong). Contents very good +; Covers quite worn at all edges, rear cover only held by a short strip; front hinge reinforced; spine lettering bright but "E" lost from author's name. [538]. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first impression, of this illustrated history of the China Inland Mission's 50-year presence in Chefoo. The mission was founded in 1881 by James Hudson Taylor and grew to encompass schools for boys and girls, a playground, a hospital, and a church. Provenance: inscribed on the first blank "Miss Camp, in grateful memory of happy stays at Chefoo. C. Howard Bird. Jan. 1932" and signed by Mary Eva Bird (née Morris) below. The Birds (1874-1941 and 1877-1968) were Protestant missionaries who served with the China Inland Mission in several cities including Chefoo. They married in Shanghai in 1907. Loosely inserted is a flyer for the 1932 Hudson Taylor centenary celebrations in Bristol. Octavo. Half-tone photographic panorama of Chefoo, 13 similar plates, map of China. Original card wrappers, front cover lettered in gilt and with laid down illustration (after a watercolour) within gilt frame, map endpapers. Edges creased and nicked, gutter cracked in couple of places, gatherings expertly consolidated with adhesive: a very good copy.