american illustrated

Hardcover. Framingham MA, Old America Company, Revised Ed., 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 716 pages, illustrated with more than 1500 examples in photographic plates. This is revised and expanded from the 1921 edition (which had 587 pages). Dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Minor wear to front corner at bottom otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Yellowing and wear to dust jacket edges. A collection of ghoulish cartoons conducts an irreverent tour of such American institutions as teenage dating, Las Vegas, automobiles, New England Calvinism, and witchcraft by Gahan Wilson.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, j.M. Stoddart & Co., 1st Edition, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Hardcover. "Richly Illustrated with one hundred and fifty steel engravings, executed in the finest style of the art, mostly from original designs by distinguished artists." Light blue, fancy textured endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Cover boards elaborately bound in leather with raised bands and gilt title and decoration on spine. Front cover has engraved decoration in black, with gilt title and design, back cover board has same design without gilt (see image). Boards have some chipping around the corners and edges (see images). Elaborately decorative first title page (see image). All edges gilt (quite bright). Hinge cracked at gutter in one place (second page,--second page), binding remains tight, otherwise. Tanning to pages from age, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Some shadowing on a few pages due to previous owner's pressed flowers (now removed). This beautiful old volume was obviously meant to decorate someone's library, as well as provide some comfort at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

Softcover. Albuquerque, NM, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. x, 102 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear to edges, else like new.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 2nd pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color illustrations by Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, known as the Brothers Hildebrandt. They were American twin brothers who worked collaboratively as fantasy and science fiction artists for many years, produced illustrations for comic books, movie posters, children's books, posters, novels, calendars, advertisements, and trading cards. Light edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages, illustrated throughout with 120 plates, including 51 in full color. Minor sunning to dust jacket spine and light wear to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers, large color-illustrated label pasted to front cover, profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates, top edge gilt. Slight rubbing and edgewear to covers, cloth lightly faded at edges, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Caldwell ID, Caxton Press, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 466 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This book considers the gold rushes, life in the camps, crime and justice, and the special situations and unique events that came out of this period. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs. Endnotes, illustrations, indexed.

Softcover. Cleveland OH, The Cleveland News Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 96 pages. Lettering & Embellishments Conceived & Executed by W. J. Morgan & Co. Covers worn with light soil, spine paper worn. Still a solid copy. Name on rear cover. Amusing humor from the turn of the last century. Profusely and humorously illustrated with many in-text sketches. Ezra Freemont Kendall was an American actor-comedian, humorist, playwright and author who was known for his depiction of typical New England Yankees. During his time in vaudeville Kendall was said to have been among the highest paid monologist in America.

Hardcover. New York , Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 42 pages illustrated in color by Wiktor Sadowski. Color illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued for this library edition. NOT ex-library, clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. Alexandria VA, Art Service International / Yale University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 263 pages. Comprehensive treatment of Grandma Moses, her life, work, significance, and with a Catalogue of her work. Illustrated in color. Designed for a major traveling exhibition of Moses' work, the hardcover copies were distributed by Yale. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Missouri Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The definitive study of the painter.

Hardcover. Portland, Collectors Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large hardcover, 319 pages. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. Chronicles the growth of the paperback industry from its 19th century forerunners to its glory days of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Extensively illustrated in color with interesting commentary. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Chicago, Follett , unknown , 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from French by John Mills. 70 pages, including glossary. First American edition. Profusely illustrated. 71 pages, giving information of various types of ships from Galleys, Clippers, Whalers, Glossary of sailing terms. Famous sailers James Cook & others.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Fold-out frontis, b&w Illustrations, very nice, clean copy. Written by "two of its teachers." Includes "Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs" arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Illustrated with a four-fold engraved frontispiece, depicting several of the school's buildings as seen from the water, and many other engravings. An interesting account of the school, including a brief history of Virginia and of slavery and its aftermath in that state, and one of the earliest publications of slave music.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Goverment Printing Office, 1st, 1950, Hardccover, olive green cloth with gilt title on spine. 715 pages, Illustrated with b/w photos, drawings, portraits, tables, maps, fold-in maps & color map in rear pocket. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 143. Small ownership sticker inside front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Small closed tear to dust jacket. Black & white woodcut illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR, Michael McCurdy. Illustrated with sepia wood engravings. Blind-stamped boards. Dust Jacket lightly faded. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, BC Ed., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Copyright page states first printing, but no price on flap, probably a book club edition. Colorfully illustrated boards with black cloth spine, with gilt lettering; white DJ with red and orange illustration and lettering; 255 pages, profusely illustrated. Long before Harlem became one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the red-hot real estate market of Manhattan, it was a metaphor for African American culture at its richest. Allon Schoener's celebrated Harlem on My Mind is the classic record of Harlem life during some of the most exciting and turbulent years of its history, a beautiful and poignant reminder of a powerful moment in African America history. Including the work of some of Harlem's most treasured photographers, among them James Van Der Zee and Gordon Parks, there are photographs of Harlem's literary lights Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Richard Wright; its politicians Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; and its musicians Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday. The book also includes the photographs of the everyday folk who gave life to this legendary community. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound volume of every issue for 1863. Profusely illustrated, Exceptional condition. Clean. Extra shipping charges may apply. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Schiffer, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. Harrison Fisher: Defining the American Beauty is the largest picturial guide to this popular artist ever produced. Nearly 450 color and black and white reproductions of his magazine covers and book illustrations document this important artist's career. Harrison Fisher enjoyed incomparable fame from 1905 to 1920, achieving celebrity status and holding the enviable position of national beauty judge. Fisher portrayed the American woman as an outgoing, lively personality, wealthy and healthy. She rode horses, played tennis, and motored in the new automobiles while holding court for admiring men. Fisher's portrayals of such beauties added market value to dozens of novels as well as hundreds of magazines which clamored for his art on both their covers and inside pages. With Fisher's work extremely hot on the collectibles market, new and seasoned buyers alike will benefit from the advice of antiques dealer and Price Guide author Bruce Magnotti.

Hardcover. Providence RI, Matrix, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated with numerous color plates. Square folio, yellow-lettered gray cloth in a matching cloth slipcase with inset pictorial lab. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of color photographs by Harry Morey Callahan (1912-1999), considered one of the great innovators of modern American photography. One b/w photograph of Callahan. "This monograph offers us a rare privilege and opportunity. It introduces us to a large body of previous uncollected, unpublished, and even unexhibited imagery by a master photographer. And it lets us see how a sensibility best known for a methodical and consistent exploration of the potentials of black and white photography has responded to the coloristic possibilities of the same medium." Foreword by Jonathan Williams, afterword by A. D. Coleman. Includes chronology and bibliography. Includes selected bibliography and chronology. Light crease to first 3 pages proceeding title page, otherwise a clean bright copy. Mild fade to top of slipcase. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Arthur A. Levine Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Copyright page has the full number line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9/9 0/0 1 2 3 4". Below the number line is "Printed in the U.S.A. 37", and below that is "First American edition, June 1999." Boards are blue with an embossed diamond pattern, and a green cloth spine. The dust jacket has $17.95 price on the upper corner of the front flap. The dust jacket back has a diagonal bar code field on the left side, and the small bar code within has the number "51795". The spine on both the book and dust jacket lack the YEAR 2 badge that was introduced later, and silver lettering is raised on the spine of the dust jacket. This copy has the following first-state errors: on the page flanking the title page indicating Rowling's previous books, "Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone" instead of "Sorcerer's Stone" and on page 332, the last word "ancestor" should be "descendant".

Hardcover. New York, Arthur A. Levine / Scholastic, 3rd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. First state printing with all points of issue satisfied: $17.95 price on front flap, no #2 on spine of DJ or book, raised diamond pattern on dark blue boards, and raised silver letters for title and author name on DJ. Third printing with 10-3 number line and '37', and first American edition June 1999. An attractive and collectible copy.