Crayon Porte (44 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Porte Crayon (illustrator). March, 1876, pp. 589-593, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Porte Crayon (illustrator). March, 1876, pp. 539-549, Comical Illus, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 18 characteristic Harper's engravings, some highlighting the stereotypical, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XLIX, No. 292, September, 1874. A tongue-in-cheek look at the education of American negroes. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 23pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 9 engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XXXIII, No. 197, October, 1866. The author's diary-style recollection. Illustrations include a view of Mrs. Bell's at Danestown, the signal station in Montgomery County, the encampment at Darnestown, a view of Camp Seminary, etc. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 19pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 10 engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XXXIII, No. 196, September, 1866. The author's diary-style recollection. Illustrations include a view of the camp at Sugar-Loaf Mountain, the headquarters near Hyattstown, Maryland, a masked battery at Edward's Ferry, the topographical camp at Darnestown, the battery at Edward's Ferry, a view of headquarters from Darnestown, Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 20pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 10 engravings, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's Monthly, Volume XXXIII, No. 194, July, 1866. The author's diary-style recollection. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 15pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 20 engravings by the author, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XX, No. 116, January, 1860. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 38pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 40 characteristic Harper's engravings after drawings by the author, one internal page-only was damaged, and is here presented in reproduction, insignificant closed tear at first page has been discretely repaired with archival tape, leaving a few words crooked, but certainly legible, salvaged from damaged issues of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XX, No. 120, May, 1860, and Volume XXI, No 124, September, 1860. Housed in protective mylar report cover.

Condition: As New. Crayon, Porte (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Porte Crayon (illustrator). 1st Edition. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, New York: Harper & Brothers, Volume LV June To November 1877. Quarto, pp. viii, 952, June-to-November issues of the magazine bound in 1/2 black morocco with gilt lettering and rules to spine and black cloth. Recounting a Summer trip in the White Mountains, many references to peaks and hotels, etc.pp 321-332. Many illustrations - Also Includes two pieces by John Muir, "Snow Banners of the Californian Alps," and "Snow Storm on Mount Shasta," both illustrated; an account by Henry Elliott on ten years in Alaska; General McClellan discusses The Regular Army of the United States; a lengthy article on the magician Robert Houdin, including illustrations of some of his stage tricks, THE ANDROSCOGGIN LAKES (pp 23-38), etc. much more Book near fine, contents are fine. REF: Bent's page 18.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Porte Crayon (illustrator). June-Aug, 1860, pp. 1-19;442-461;745-763, Nicely Illus (Complete in 3 Issues Published Serially), Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, last page in facsimile, else VG.

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Crayon, Porte (illustrator). 1st Edition. Contains: Six installments of Dickens' "Little Dorrit", Double House by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, "Hasty Pudding, " a poem by Joel Barlow. Articles on Negros in Negroland, Plague in London and Marseilles, lion-slayers and maneaters, insects and insect life, the Andes, Asiatic Cholera, James P. Beckwourth, Dismal Swamp (illustrated by Porte Crayon), Daniel Webster's Social Hours, etc. 461 engraved illustrations. Text block tight and complete. Tips are a little bit worn; scattered foxing thoughout.

Soft Bound. Condition: Very Good. Strother, David Hunter ("Porte Crayon") (illustrator). First Edition. Very good in wrappers with mild wear to edges and light soiling to panels. Original and complete issue. Strother's is a 12-page article filled with illustrations the famous illustrator who used the name "Porte Crayon". Also, "Anne Furness" (Chapters 37-38) by Frances Eleanor Trollope, sister-in-law of Anthony Trollope,

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good in wrappers. Complete issue showing some foxing, wear to foot of spine, and wear to corners. Also, "A Summer in New England: The White Mountains" by Porte Crayon, "The Adventures of Philip" by Samuel M. Thackeray (chps 13-14) and "Oakley Farm" (chps 9-12) by Anthony Trollope (J.E. Millais, illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Porte Crayon (illustrator). 1st Edition. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XXIII, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1886. Quarto, pp. viii, 972, June-to-November issues of the magazine bound in 1/2 black morocco with gilt lettering and rules to spine and black cloth. Recounting a Summer trip in the White Mountains, many references to peaks and hotels, etc. Many illustrations - Summit of Mt. Washington showing the 1st stone building, Sleeping apartment at Crawford's (A cow barn stall) pp 145-163. Book near fine, contents are fine. REF: Bent's page 16.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. This is an article/advertisement from a Vintage Journal and not a book or magazine, Pages are discolored from age and have minor spotting and imperfections. No tears or underlining and text is very clear and readable. ; 6 x 9; 10 pages.

Condition: As New. Crayon, Porte (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. Crayon, Porte (illustrator).

Condition: New. Crayon, Porte (illustrator).

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. Crayon, Porte (illustrator). 864pp. Brown leather spine and corners. Marbled boards. Some edge wear. Text is in great condition. Contents include: Charlotte Bronte's Last Sketch, Lovel The Widower, Nil Nisi Bonum; Irving and Macaulay, On Two Children In Black, by W. M. Thackery; O'Connors of Castle Connor, by Anthony Trollope; Tithonus, by Alfred Tennyson; Etc. Numerous illustrations, comics and fashion plates. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

1/2 leather. Porte Crayon (illustrator). First edition. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 490 p. Audience: General/trade. Contents include six installments of The Virginians by Thackeray; William Pitt by Lord Macauley; Popular Sovereignty in the Territories, by Stephen A. Douglas; Proposal by Bayard Taylor; Sonnet by Park Benjamin; Artists' Excursion illustrated by Porte Crayon, a Forest Story by T. Addison Richards; as well as unattributed articles on Audubon, Daniel Boone, the Guajiquero Indians, John Brown, John Wesley, Panama etc. Over 400 illustrations, mostly engraved. Black leather spine cover and corners over marbled boards. There is split in the leather along the gutter in the front board and some edgwear all around. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

1/2 leather. Porte Crayon (illustrator). First edition. Marshall Cavendish ed. . Contents include: Life under the ocean wave, by Lyman Abbottt; locomotion--past and present, by S.S. Conant; Life on board a Man-of-War, by Commodore Gibson; The old Romans at home, by Benson J. Jossing; A simpleton, by Charles Reade, A Waif and Estray, by D.R. Castleton, The Life of an Eastern Woman by Edwin de Leon, and much more. Many engraved illustrations, poetry, etc. Black leather spine and corners over a marbled boards. Signed in pencil by previous owner. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Warren Shepard, Porte Crayon, M.J. Burns, et al (illustrator). First Edition. Hard cover, 8vo in blue paper-covered boards, titles in gold to spine, with the original pictorial dustjacket featuring a Currier and Ives print, 479pp. CONDITION: Near Fine, (pages lightly are age-toned, two more so) in a Fine d/j. An anthology of various stories of New England originally published in various illustrated magazines in the nineteenth century, or turn of the twentieth century, including Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Scribner's Monthly Magazine, The Outing Magazine, The New England Magazine and others unattributed. Authors include James P. Baxter,Frederick Booth, C. Seymour Bullock, R.G.F. Candage, J.R. Chapin, James B. Connolly, Thomas Fleming Day, Walter Deane, Julia C.R. Dorr, Caroline Harwood Garland,Henry F. Jenks, A.E. Marr, Harry E. Miller, Charles E. Perry, Arthur Pierre, Victor Slocum, Winfield M. Thompson, Holman Douglas Waldron, and others unattributed. Partial contents include: "Huntsman of the Sea," on American whaling, from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1874. (Excerpted from W. Morris Davis, "Nimrod of the Sea; or The American Whaleman," (New York: Harper & Brothers); Thomas Fleming Day's , "Running the Rips," about sailing through gales around Martha's Vineyard, from The Outing Magazine, 1907; "A New England Village," from Harper's New Monthly Magaine (1874) about Stockbridge, in the Massachusetts Berkshires; R.G. F. Candage's " Boston Light and the Brewsters," appearing in The New England Magazine (1895); "Knocking About Cape Cod," The Outing Magazine, (1905); an excerpt from James P. Baxter's "The Story of Portland," (1895); "A Summer in Nantucket," from Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1860) and similar. Other items include articles about Gloucester Fishermen, Block Island, Rutland, Vermont, and Old Dover New Hampshire, Black Bass Fishing in Maine, The Development of Steam Navigation in Connecticut etc. The book is without a good table of contents or index, nonetheless, a good tableside-read with plenty of vintage illustration and photographs, many of which are also unattributed. Book.

Hard cover. Porte Crayon, Howard Pyle, and many more (illustrator). First edition. 952 pages. Contents include: Two installments of The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy; Afghanistan by Zadel B. Gustafson; E. Mason on Rembrand; A Kitchen Garden by E.P. Roe; Lucy Little on Medelssohn; A Pensinsular Canaan by Howard Pyle with the author's illustrations; The Piano and its Antecedents by Julius Wilcox; A story of the Plague by Rebecca Harding Davis; The Red River Colony, by Gereral A.L. Chetlain; Statford-upon-Avon, by William Winter; four installments of Young Mrs. Jardine by Dinah Mulock Craik, Home by Porte Crayon with the author's illustrations, The English in India, by Thomas W. Knox, Hymn on the Nativity by Ben Jonson, with illustrations, etc. Black leather spine and corner coverings, with some scuffing to leather. Decorative endpages. No ownership or other marks. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

Hard cover. Porte Crayon (illustrator). Hardcover Articles on Marco Polo, Idaho, Harem life, the mountains, life aboard a Man o' War, Santo Domingo, Christmas etc., poetry, fiction, current events, hundreds of engraved illustrations. Covered in green library buckram with guilt title. Withdrawn stamp from Winnetka public library, otherwise a clean tight copy. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.

HARD BACK BROWN. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: DECENT DJ. CRAYON, PORTE (illustrator). General wear: foxing, small bookplate on inner front board, clean and unmarked DATE PUBLISHED: 1959 EDITION: 296.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - very good.

Super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus title pages, xxi + 296pp, illus, VG+ (sl bruising/rubbing to spine extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG (price clipped, minor creasing & chipping to edges, moderate tanning & light soiling to spine, minor general tanning & soiling).

Hard cover. Porte Crayon (illustrator). First edition. 950 pages. Contents include: California by Charles Nordhoff, The Old Norse Colonies of Greenland, by Isaac Hayes, The Eternal City by Lyman Abbott, The Golden Lion of Granpere (four installments), Negro Life in Jamaica, by G. O. Scilhamer, North Bolivia and its Amazon Outlet, by Colonel George E. Church, The Mountains by Porte Crayon (with his illustrations), The Snow-bird by D.R. Castleton, the Story of Tammany, by Rufus Home, The Poetry of the Zodiac by Benson J. Lossing, etc. Many many engraved illustrations. Black leather spine covering and corners over marbled boards. Some edgewear to boards, cracks in leather. Otherwise clean and tight. Signed in pencil by former owner Mary E. Bayley. Very good in very good dust jacket.

Hard cover. First edition. 946 p., library bound Bound in green library buckram (Winnetka Public Library). Gilt title on spine. Great condition. Many, many engraved illustrations. Several installments of "The Golden Lion of Granpere by Anthony Trollope, Articles on the Rome, the eternal city, " The Mountains" with great illustrations by Porte Crayon, "California' by Nordhoff, on James Fenimore Cooper, by Constance Fenimore, William Wilberforce, the Danish West Indies, Negro Life in Jamaica, Bolivia and the Amazon, etc. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library.