Comancho Phillips (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Good with moderate wear and spotting. Prev owners name and date and toning , boards exposed at corners and some wear to cloth, pictoral pastedown.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. FIRST EDITION, tan pictorial boards, illustrated dust jacket, frontis., illus., 114pp. Dustin #103. Dowd #303. O'Keefe #798. Very Good in Fair dust jacket (chipped and worn with large piece missing on back - now in mylar protection). Material on Grant Marsh and the Custer Battlefield. The author was a meat hunter for the Burlington Railroad line as it laid its track through Nebraska, Wyoming, and right past the Custer Battlefield in Montana. He writes that White-Man-Runs-Him was not at the Battle of the Little Big Horn at all, and Captain Grant Marsh of the steamboat "Far West" could hear the firing from the Custer massacre while fifteen miles away at the junction of the Big Horn and Little Big Horn Rivers! Highly collectible.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. (indians of north america, juvenile literature, folklore ) A reading only copy. Boards/spine/hinges may be broken, detached, or missing. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes/highlighting, be heavily stained, or detached. May be missing non-text pages (e.g. end pages, half title, title, frontispiece.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bound in green cloth stamped in black; ornamental border of fish, fishing pole and line, bugs, cat tails and lake in black on front cover done by author; lettering on front and back cover in black; lettering on spine in black. Printer not given. "El Comancho" is the well-known hunter, sportsman and editor of the Pacific Coast. Sunning and wear to spine, spotting on front cover, slight water stain on endpapers, otherwise a tight, scarce copy. Kramer 222 Kramer #13.

Giving Instructions for Pronunciation, Constructionm Expression and Proper Speaking of Chinook with all the Various Shaded Meanings of the Words. 118 pp. 12mo, publisher's decorated wrappers printed in red and green. Second Edition. Coin-sized dampstains at the bottom of the front wrapper; dust-soiling; contents fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Later Edition. ISBN . Oblong Hardback. No Dust jacket. Later Printing. Bound in red cloth with tipped in front cover illustration. Very Good Condition. Tight sound copy with foxing to endpapers, some browning to edges of interior pages, cover rubs, rubs to edges and corners of covers. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 1st Edition. 114 pages. Illustrated with photos. Dust jacket has small chip at top of spine. Very good plus in a very good dust jacket. (A-15).

80 pp. Illustrated with Eleven Full Page Colored Plates and Further Embellished with Several Hundred Little Indian Drawings with Explanatory Key List so Little Folks can Understand Them. Oblong small folio, publisher's cloth with applied color illustration on front panel. Front free endpaper lacking; cloth a little frayed at extremities; tight and sound.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Phillips, W.S. (illustrator). Circa 1928. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Oblong format. Red cloth, large pictorial onlay to front cover. Illustrated with 11 full page coloured plates, reproduced from water colour paintings by the author and further embellished with several hundred little Indian drawings. With explanatory key list so little folks can understand them. Scuffing and chipping to onlay to front cover; so loss at edges. Wear and bumping to cover edges and corners. Inscriptions in ink to front endpaper. Grubby marks. Some foxing and browning. Frontis has a repaired closed tear. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

HARDCOVER. 3rd edition. 80pp, oblong quarto. tight binding, clean and colorful throughout, clean /glossy/colorful boards, mild oxidation to the endpapers, Very Good wrapped in mylar, nice color, creases and scuffs along the top, back is soiled and chipped at the edges, Good+.

Condition: Very Good. first edition, signed by El Comancho at the half-title page; 114 pp., frontis., plates; original illustrated boards, spine worn, covers darkened, else near very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good illustrated boards oblong quarto hardcover. Christmas gift inscription from 1937 on ffep. Illustrated. Moderate west. Points rubbed. Spine ends worn. Children's.

Illustrated Boards. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 80pp/illus. Each text pg has little drawings, glossary at rear explains them. All eleven full page color plates present. Great illustrations, great book; one loose plate. Orange cloth; Oblong.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. W.S. Phillips ( El Comancho ) (illustrator). A collection of classic Native American tales and legends illustrated with eleven full page colored plates reproduced from the author's water color paintings and further embellished with several hundred Native American drawings, with explanatory key list. Original beige cloth with large color pastedown and black title. A very good, clean and unmarked copy with mild edgewear to corners and slight dust offsetting to back cover. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages; Front cover of book with some light rubbing. Dust jacket has some minor soiling, rubbing and a few small chips.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this very scarce collection of charming Western stories about a young outdoorsy boy. The first edition. First serialised in 'Forest and Stream'.A very scarce work.In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding.This work was written by Walter Shelley Phillips, also known as El Comancho, a writer of many Western novels. The work features a collection of stories following a young Western boy as he teaches an older fisherman about hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities. In the publisher's original illustrated cloth. Externally excellent with minor bumping and shelf wear. Internally firmly bound with only minimal strain between the edition page and dedication. Pages lightly age toned and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this very scarce collection of charming Western stories about a young outdoorsy boy. The first edition. First serialised in 'Forest and Stream'.A very scarce work.In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding.This work was written by Walter Shelley Phillips, also known as El Comancho, a writer of many Western novels. The work features a collection of stories following a young Western boy as he teaches an older fisherman about hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally excellent with minimal shelf wear and the odd minor handling mark to the rear. Internally firmly bound with clean and age toned pages. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No DJ. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. "Walter Shelley Phillips, known as El Comancho, was a self-educated and self-trained naturalist, artist, geologist, newspaper reporter, freelance writer and author of numerous books. . Over the course of his career, he wrote professionally and illustrated for many newspapers and magazines, including Forest & Stream, Beatrice Express, Lincoln Call, the Seattle Telegraph, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Chicago?s Northwestern Lumberman. One of his newspaper columns, ?Teepee Tales,? was syndicated in newspapers all over the country. In 1904, he began the Pacific Sportsman magazine, which later became Outdoor Life. Phillips also wrote books, and illustrated his own and others? books from the 1890s to the 1920s, including juvenile works, Indian legends and more." Light shelf/edge wear, light toning at spine, ownership signature at ffep, signed by author at half title, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Brown paper boards, black ink lettering, color pictorial element, frontispiece. 8vo. 114pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

4to. viii, 208 pp. Illustrated title page, text illustrations throughout. Red cloth, colour plate mounted front cover, initials R.A.K. showing assorted Plains Indian motifs (minor shelfwear, minor bumping to couple corners), w/ d.j. cover art repeated front & back covers (minor chipping head & foot of spine, fore-edges, closed tears, old tape repairs on verso), still VG/G- copy, w/ former ownership marking on ffep. for Jack H. Milbourn dated Dec. 25, 1927. First edition of this wonderful anthology of Northwest Coast and Plains Indian legends, drawing upon the authors widely syndicated column "Teepee Tales" featuring illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull, the noted wildlife artist who had contributed to Jack London's Call of the Wild. Phillips (1867-1940) details in his introduction how these tales were drawn from the legends and folklore of the Salish, Siwash, Blackfeet, Rosebud Sioux, and Oglala Sioux. As popular writer, lecturer, artist, and naturalist, Phillips traveled extensively across the West, and switched between homes in Seattle and Chicago.

Hardcover. Phillips, W.S. (El Comancho) (illustrator). Later printing. [1914], [1928]. Collects ten tales of Mative Americans with eleven full color plates and hundreds of littler Indian drawings with an explanation for each drawing. Gift inscription in inkon front paste down, partially hidden by dust flap. A near fine copy with light soiling in very good dust jacket with several small closed tears. A handsom copy. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A lovely mock-up manuscript of a chidren's story, with many original watercolored drawings, and generally several takes on each drawing. N.d., circa 1920. Oblong quarto, 35 by 28 cm, 14 by 11 inches. Unpaginated, 118 ff. Phillips was a published author who wrote several successful children's books about the West, including "Indian Tales for Little Folks". It is unknown why this particular manuscript was never published, given how far he got in the process. (It would seem doubtful that the concerns related to copyright, since the story is easily distinguishable from Peter Rabbit, from which the author expressly did draw inspiration, and which he explicitly cites as a template in his "specifications". The most significant difference is in this story's ambition to depict the animals more realistically and as true animals, not animals dressed in human clothes. Indeed, this conceit would set this story apart from most anthropomorphic juvenile literature of the day. In this story, the young rabbit, defying his mother's warning about coyotes, ventures out into the sagebrush and has close calls with not just a coyote but also an eagle, meets several other burrowing animals and has to escape from an irrigation ditch as he desperately seeks to find his way home. Effortlessly the author educates us in the process about the lifestyle of Jack Rabbits. The drawings are mounted on heavy stock and interleaved with pages of tracing paper and a light weight paper upon which variants of the drawings are rendered. Throughout are maginal notes covering details of the book's production, in addition to the letter of instructions. Heavy foxing on some leaves. A half-title or cover sheet somewhat chewed up. The binder is loose by the front joint, and the title label on the front board is heavily rubbed.