Llwyd rev (4 risultati)

Staple-bound. Condizione: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint. Pages crisp and clean except for a prior owner's raised seal and a small rectangle of sticker staining at the first page; stapled binding secure; soft cover shows a little faint toning at the spine and slight rubbing at the spine heel, otherwise excellent. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. On offer here is a very rare little booklet titled: "The Message of an Indian Relic" by the Rev. D.r J.P.D. Llwyd. This small soft cover booklet features a paste-down, color photo of the Tlingit Totem Pole that was erected in Pioneer Place in the City of Seattle. It originally stood in the village of Tongass on Queen Charlotte Island. The current version is one that has been replaced in the 1940's and then restored in 1972. This booklet is well decorated with pertinent imagery and photos. Please see my photos. Condition: This booklet is in very good condition. The book is held together with a red string binding, now a bit worn. The soft covers, front and back are a bit worn and faded but still fully legible. Inside, there is a penciled gift inscription on the first blank page. The interior pages and their illustrations are clean and bright, and without toning or foxing. The edges of the soft covers are a bit bumped but nothing very severe. Various (illustratore).…

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Slim octavo. 21pp. Illustrated in two colors. Sewn printed wrappers with color pictorial onlay. Wrappers with modest wear, faintly sunned spine, and a tiny corner chip on the cover, very good or better. The author's treatise on the "Seattle totem pole.".…

8vo. [2], 21, [1] pp. Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut engraved totem poles as borders, illustrations, 3 sepia-tinted photographic plates. Gray printed & decorated softcovers, colour plate of Haida totem pole in downtown Seattle mounted on front cover, Arts & Crafts decorative lettering & borders, yapp edges (minor creasing, edgewear), still VG copy, sewn w/ red silk ribbon at gutter margin. First edition of this scarce, and well-illustrated work on the iconography of the Tlingit totem pole which had been "appropriated" in August, 1899 by a number of Seattle businessmen from the village of Tongass belonging to the family of Chief Kininook on Queen Charlotte's Island. The totem pole which stood in Pioneer Place became known as the Seattle Totem, and was featured on a wide array of tourist postcards, brochures, and travel literature. Llwyd (b. 1861) was a member of the American Archaeolgoical Society, president of the Board of Library Trustees of the City of Seattle, and served as the rector of St. Mark's Church in Seattle from 1897-1909, before leaving for a post in Toronto. See: Robin Wright, How did Totem Poles Become a Symbol of Seattle?, November 19, 2015, Burke Museum. …