Decorated st john harper (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. First ed. with neatly opened pages; 150 p., clean and unmarked within on strong paper only faintly age-toned; former owner's signature on verso of color frontis.; penciled "first edition" written on front end page; binding firm; in absence of d.j. the red boards hae sunned spine but with gilt lettering clearn; gilt letltering on white patch and gilt ornamentation onf ront board iws very gbood; corners lightly bumped and light rubbing at crown and foot of spine.…

Cloth Bound Boards. Condizione: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 1907 first edition. Size 12mo, 7.5" tall, 150 pages. Red cloth covered boards with white titles within elaborate frame on the front cover and white titles and vignette on the spine, rough trimmed page edges. Condition very good, corners and edges rubbed, the rough trimmed page edges are browned, end-papers are toned otherwise contents are clean. Appears to be a presentation copy send at Tarkington's request, written on the half-title in attractive calligraphic hand "Ella Warner-Whitney Santa Rosa California With Saturday Evg Post March 6" 08" First published asa serial in The Saturday Evening Post, August 1907. The first separate edition printed at the De Vinne Press. With beautiful watercolour paintings of Venice and Rome by William St. John Harper as end-papers. Illustrated by Lawrence Mazzanovich and F. R. Gruger. Decorated by Wm. St. John Harper (illustratore).…