Patterson lawrence a (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Illustrated Edition. FIRST EDITION, thus. Thick 4to. (25 cm.) ix[3]1-352p. Frontispiece engraving plus 13 full-page engravings by L.A. Peterson. Black cloth blocked in gilt and with gilt letters on the front cover and the spine and with vignettes in gilt on the front cover and the spine. Endpapers are black and white drawings by L.A. Patterson. Top edge red, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Just touches of wear to extremities, cloth clean and bright, gilt bright (! "It pops," as we say in the book trade.), all illustrations present and in fine condition, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Dust jacket spine quite faded, as usual, else near fine to fine. Lawrence Andrew Patterson (1896-1964), printmaker, illustrator, and teacher was born in Fresno and died in San Mateo, California. After service in WWI he studied for two years at the California School of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley. Patterson's book illustration commissions include full page illustrations and small vignettes for the 1926 edition of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam published by Johnck and Kibbee, San Francisco. In 1927 he created fifteen illustrations for the English version of Golden Tales of Anatole France published by Dodd, Mead & Company. Patterson also illustrated Harris Merton Lyons' The Wind in the Lilacs published in 1929; Richard Middleton's poem Queen Melanie and the Wood-Boy published in 1931; and Douglas S. Watson's book West Wind —The Life story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe published in 1934. He produced several limited edition art prints and taught art at San Mateo Community College. Just an exquisitely illustrated edition of GOLDEN TALES. L.A. Patterson [Lawrence Andrew Patterson, 1896-1964] (illustrator).…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 1-53 plus nine pages of nice ads. Features: The National Museum of Canada; Australia's Great Barrier Reef; Turtle-Hunting in Coral Seas; Cartier at Montreal; An Eminent Geographer; Civil Engineering in Frozen Soil; Fur Production in the Northwest Territories - article with many great photos plus production statistics; The Scottish Borderlands; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Small name stamp inside front cover. A sound vintage copy.…

[24] pp.; 14.3 x 10.3 cm.; sewn bound; other special feature[s]; black-and-white; edition size 200; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Artist's book in which invited artists created a phrase to be embroidered on clothing labels, included in separate envelope. Each artist included small amount of text which explains the origins or reasoning behind their choice of text. Case has label embroidered with the title. Artists included: Richard Tuttle, Harry Gilonis, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jackson Mac Low, Ian Stephen, Graham Rich, Lesley Kerman, Simon Cutts, Medbh Mcguckian, Hans Waanders, Thomas A. Clark, Pavel Büchler, Michael Longley, David Bellingham, Zoë Irvine, Alec Finlay, Simon Patterson, Cecilia Vicuna, Kevin MacNeil, John Burnside and Lawrence Weiner. Housed in a paper slipcase. Fine. As issued. Contents clean and unmarked. Complete with all embroidered labels.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 86 pages. Articles: How Much Government can Free Enterprise Stand?; The Senseless Killing of Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind" - article with photos; Report on the Far West - The News is Good from the Nation's "New Empire" - with focus on industrial development; Lincoln Collector, Oliver R. Barrett; Bashful Ben of the Bang-Bangs - Cowboy Ben Johnson - article with color photos; Donora, Pennsylvania - The case of the Poisoned Air - 19 died; Suppose He Had Two Eyes - Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Tommy Thompson has one eye - article with photo. Fiction: Bootlegger's Treasure (part 1 of 4); Floodwater; O'Brien; The case of the Negligent Nymph (conclusion); Dumb Bunny. Also includes great vintage ads for: Lord Calvert Whiskey - with great full-page colour photo of illustrator Mr. Bradshaw Crandell; Western Electric (showing switchboard operator; General Electric tvs; Herbert Tareyton cigarettes - featuring colour photo of Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Hamilton; Pontiac cars; Rexall - Druggists of America; Texaco; DeSoto cars; Nash cars; Mercury cars; American Airlines (centerfold); Botany 500 men's fashions; Great two-page color photo ad for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer features Rosalind Russell, Gary Cooper, Lawrence Tibbett, Charles Laughton, Sid Luckman, Douglas Fairbanks, "Hap" Arnold, Mr. & Mrs. Jascha Heifetz, Mr. and Mrs. F. Warren Pershing and Mr. and Mrs. Jean Hersholt; GM Electro-Motive Division; Dodge Trucks; Trailways bus lines; Bicycle playing cards; Camel cigarettes (back cover) featuring bowler Joe Wilman and waterskiing stars Martha Mitchell and Margie Fletcher. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Taft, U.S. Senator Robert A.; Aikman, Duncan; Davenport, Walter; Sandburg, Carl; Johnson, Grady; Davidson, Bill; Fay, Bill; O'Day, Nell; Williams, Lawrence; Lowry, Robert; Brandon, William; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Atkinson, B.M. Jr. Hugh Gravitt Cabby Sarn. Illustrated by Patterson, Robert; Holland, Robert P.; Mitchell, Michael;Brackett, Ward; Dower, Walter; (illustrator).…

Zustand: Near fine. Limited Art Deco fine press edition of the classic collection of Persian poetry - one of 200 copies bound in full vellum. 11.25'' x 8''. Original gilt-lettered full vellum. Illustrated by Patterson with 8 full-page plates. Boards lightly bowed, with some faint soil. A few touches of foxing. Bright.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 385-480 plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage advertisements. Features: In the grip of the "Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; The fatal wood - a graphic account of a dramatic episode in the great Battle of Verdun; Minnie Florea's ordeal - a hurricane swept her to sea where she, the only member of her father's party of 13 to survive, battled the storm for 24 hours; The heart of Sweden - an interesting description of rural Sweden with wonderful photos; Three men in a tree - how they survived a flood in Australia; Comedies of the war - WWI anecdotes; Sandy McLain's Log-Jam - how a young Scotsman broke up one of the biggest log-jams in the history of Minnesota; Our adventures at the Chincha Islands - a lively time picking up a load of guano; From Job to Job around the World - part VII - Alfred Fletcher describes his adventures in Constantinople, his trip through Italy and across Europe to Paris - where he was shut in Voltaire's tomb for a night!; Where Grass is King - a woman's account of her live on a homestead in a region of America where grass is used for everything - with nice photos; My Romance - how Miss L.V. Smith saved a crowded train from destruction; Photo of a six-foot shark caught in the Tigris at Baghdad Great full-page ad for the Red Cross Line. Average wear. Small protective pieces of tape at each end of backsrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Wide World Magazine - The Magazine for Men, September 1916 in the Grip of Hip Sings Hip Sings" - Walter G. Patterson became a member of a Chinese secret society (Part I); Hunting the sword-fish on the south coast of Nova Scotia - with great photos; Th. Illustrated by Gilbert, A.; Elcock, Howard; Evison, G. Henry; Webb, Arch;Buchanan, Fred; Somerfield, Thomas; Gillett, Frank; Evison, G.H. (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very good plus. Lovely Art Deco SF fine press edition of the classic collection of Persian poetry - inscribed by publisher Wallace Kibbee. 11.25'' x 8''. Original quarter vellum, brown textured paper boards. Illustrated by Patterson with 8 full-page plates. Inscribed by Kibbee in blue ink: "To my friend Fredric Johnson / With best wishes / from / Wallace Kibbee / San Francisco / February 19." Rubbing to spine, with offsetting of leather to text block edges at gutter. Else bright and clean. …

Zustand: Good. 4to. 47 [+ ca. 40] pp. Gilt Parchment Vellum Boards. Eight pages of art deco style B&W plates, 47 pages of critical analysis following text and plates. Very good. Signed inscription by Wallace Kibbee (printer & publisher) to book's former owner, on second FEP, dated 1926.

Zustand: Fine. First thus edition hard back binding in publisher's original vellum covered boards, gilt title lettering to the front cover. 4to. 11½'' x 8½''. The Rubáiyát with unnumbered pages comprising 101 quatrains with full-page and vignette monochrome illustrations throughout by Lawrence Andrew Patterson, followed by [ii, blank], 47pp. This book has been hand-set in Humanistic type, based on the best hand lettering of the Humanistic period. Printed by Johnck, Kibbee & Company, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. below which is SIGNED by the illustrator 'Lawrence Andrew Patterson' and 'David Anderson' who provides a Critical Analysis. Also inscribed by the Publisher John Johnck to the second front free end paper 'Dear Renata, And when the days of our companionship have fled into the Past, forever gone and dead - And when you gently muse, pray keep for me a memory in your golden head, Affectionately, John J. Johnck, February 15, 1932.' In Fine condition. The difficulties involved in printing this Rubáiyát are discussed in an interview between Lawton Kennedy, the printer, and Ruth Teiser, which appears in 'A life in printing : oral history / and related material, 1966-1967' University of California Bancroft Library / Berkeley Regional Oral History Office. Member of the P.B.F.A. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.…