Armstrong margaret illus (8 risultati)

; 105 pp.; DJ; F/VG; Appears to be an unread copy._____Not price-clipped._____No remainder marks._____No prior owner's marks of any kind._____The jacket has a wrinkle to the front panel and short tears to the corners. . . [kwA_ 1st Ed. rare childrens kids juvenile young adult picture].

Hardcover. Condizione: Good+. Condition: Good+. No DJ. Green cloth covered boards with beautiful decorated cover. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Shelf wear to tail and end cap. Corners bumped. Top edge gilt. Fore and bottom edge rough cut. Hinges are solid. Text block is somewhat loose. Beautiful design work on all pages and expressive illustrations throughout. Wonderful book. 111 pages. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition thus. First edition thus, the first with the Howard Chandler Christy coior illustrated plates. Hardcover in blue-green cloth ornately decorated with Mararet Armstrong designed cover and spine. Printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. 169 pp. With color illustrated title page and 7 additional full page color illustrations by Christy. Very good, front gilt bright, narrow crescent tidemarks to the bottom of the pages not affecting the text. The story of Mr.George Fairfax, an old, widowed farmer in the Virginia mountains who is thought to be stern and unfriendly because he always wears black, but is actually kind and generous. He takes in a young orphan boy and tells the youth of his experience in the American Revolutionary War and of his lost love. The book was first published in 1896 but this, the preferred edition, has a number of things going for it that earlier editions did not: the beautful Howard Chandlet Christy illustrations, the Margaret Armstrong art nouveau binding design, and the famous printer, D.B. Updike of the Merrymount Press. Howard Chandler Christy (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Light green cloth lettered and decorated in dark green and with oval color illustration of a bulldog tipped onto front cover. 137 pp. With four full color plates by Harrison Fisher and additional ornate decorations on each page of text by Margaret and Helen Maitland Armstrong. Early reprint, still carrying oly the 1904 Dodd, Mead imprint on copyright page. Near fine, occasion foxing, plate at p.56 foxed. A nice example of an early 20th book illustrated by two of the major illustrators of the period.…

Illustrated by Margaret Armstrong. Frontispiece; decorated title page and every page of text with decorations by Armstrong. 8vo, publisher's olive cloth decorated by Margaret Armstrong; t.e.g. Contents fine; binding a little rubbed with a small dampstain on the rear board.

2 vols. Illustrations by Arthur Rackham and others. 8vo, publisher's blue gilt-decorated cloth designed by MArgaret Armstrong; t.e.g. Surrey Edition. Tiny areas of rubbing at corner tips and top edges of the spines; a very attractive set; clean, tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 137 p. 20 cm. Colour frontispiece. 3 other colour plates by Fisher. Decorations by the Armstrongs. Green cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Chips, small holes, and tears to jacket edges. Dampstain to bottom right corner of jacket and bottom corners of book. Jacket spine darkened. Green cloth with pasted-on colour illustration of the dog. Spine ends softened.…

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1901. Early Printing. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's pictorial cloth in decorative green dust jacket, binding and dust jacket signed in image "MA"; [8],111pp.; frontispiece, four leaves of plates (tissue guards), green and black vignettes, text printed within decorative green and black border throughout. Jacket rather chipped along margins with a few shallow losses not approaching text, spine panel darkened, jacket cleanly split along upper spine edge, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper else a Very Good copy in a Good example of the jacket. …