Newell peter illus (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Cover shows minor wear, tears on the corners. Pages are shaken, tanned, and clean.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xiii, 248 p. 23 cm. Numerous b&w illustrations and a frontispiece in partial colour. Cream hardcover with gold impressing. Top edge gilt. Boards are soiled or darkened with worn corners and tears in hinges. Some pages have rough edges from cutting. Tear in frontispiece tissue guard. Ink inscription on a front endpaper. Also poems from Rhyme and Reason, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and Sylvie and Bruno.…

Pictorial Cover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. 55 pgs. Red cloth ruled in blind and gilt, with gilt titles, pastedown title and illustration to upper cover, small hole in cloth of lower cover, occasional foxing but overall and attractive copy. Two young boys fumble their way through a social call on a young female neighbor. 14 b&w plates by Peter Newell. The author, Grace MacGown Cooke was a popular writer and free-thinker, associated with Upton Sinclair's Helicon Home Colony and later moved to an art colony in Carmel, CA where she lived with her sister. Cooke's cove was named for them and their home is on the California list of Historic Homes as it was designed by one of California's first female architects, Eugenia Maybury. Size: 8vo. Peter Newell (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Tan cloth pictorially stamped and titled in yellow and green ink, yellow ink has flaked from spine and is beginning to flake on cover, else very good, prev. owner's stamp on flyleaf. Humorous sea-faring poetry illustrated with a full page b&w frontis and 4 other full page b&w plates by Newell, funny as ever. Size: 8vo. Peter Newell (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. (1895). Green cloth pictorially stamped in black and red, titled in gilt, cloth near spine slightly mottled, gift inscription to endpaper, otherwise sound and clean. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 23 other b&w plates by Newell. BAL 726. Size: 12mo.

First Newell edition, scarce with both the dust jacket and publisher's box. This was the best-known of the many American illustrated editions published following Dodgson's death in 1898, and made Newell famous in his own right (Ovenden & Davis, p. 10). Newell, aware of the popularity of Tenniel's blonde Alice, wrote of his own dark-haired version that was an attempt to capture "a sweet, childish spirit at home in the midst of mystery". Williams-Madan-Green, pp. 221 & 233. Graham Ovenden & John Davis, The Illustrators of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, 1979; Peter Newell, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: from an Artist's Stand-point", Harper's Monthly Magazine, October 1901. Octavo. Photogravure portrait frontispiece of Dodgson with tissue guard, 40 monochrome plates by Newell, text printed within pale green decorative borders designed by Robert Murray Wright. Original white boards, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, front covers with gilt motif of Alice, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With dust jacket and original box. Gilt bright, a few spots of foxing to endpapers and tissue guard; jacket a little toned, a few nicks: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.…