pyle howard compiled merle johnson (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1935. 1935 edition, a large book with dramatic full page illustrations in both color and in black and white. Externally fair to good, internally good to very good. Tan hardcover with black cloth spine, color illustration mounted on the front cover, 12.25 inches tall. Covers worn at the edgs with a two inch tear to the fabric on the lower front joint, rear cover spotted and bent, good hinges, sound text block, tiny chip to bottom inner margin of front free endpaper, pages clean with no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Good/No. Folio - 12" - 15" Tall.

348pp. 4to. Original pictorial boards, linen backstrip, a little worn. B&w and colour plates, colour frontis. and additional illustrations. Endpapers offsetting, a little foxing to edges, otherwise a very good copy. First Edition (slated). Extra illustrations.

/HP, illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Good; collector's plate on fixed endpaper, backstrip torn 1.5" at spine foot, corners worn on tips, loosening, even soil to boards, spine gilt bright, paste on plate scratched, pages clean but not flat. Juvenile hardback tall. Fiction, Fact & Fancy concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main: from the Writing and Pictures of Howard Pyle. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /HP, illustrator.

Howard Pyle (illustrator). A handsome copy of this very early, September 1922 edition (born out by Harper's I-W code on the copyright page). Solid and VG (with light rubbing along the spine) in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light chipping along the spine ends and panel edges, and mild darkening to the panels. Tall quarto, nicely illustrated thruout by the redoubtable Howard Pyle.