Decorations Edwin Prittie (7 results)

Illustrated Boards. Condition: Very Good. Plates/Decorations; Edwin John Prittie (illustrator). Minimally aged, else textblock clean and very tight; Moderately sunned, rubbed, and scuffed boards. Peeled corners and spine. Illustrated front cover. Unpaginated. Approximately 18 pages. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Color Plates By E. Roscoe Shrader And Herbert Moore, Decorations On Every Edge Of Every Page By Edwin J. Prittie. (illustrator). Reprint. 158 Pp. + Eight Full Color Plates, Including The Earliest Plates By Shrader, Later Head Of Faculty At The Otis Art Institute From 1919 To 1949 And President Of The California Art Club From 1924 To 1930 And Again In 1934 . Green Cloth, Gilt And Black Lettering And Illustration. Later Printing,1909 Copyright Date By Barse And Hopkins But First Published By Stern In 1909. Good At Best, Worn, Hinges Broken At Endpapers. A Children's History Of European Exploration In The Western Hemisphere In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries. Although The Title Refers To A Finding Of America Which Is A Concept That Would Have Been Of The Greatest Surprise To The Inhabitants Who Were Found, The Book Is Otherwise Remarkable For Its Great Evenness Of Discussion Of Explorers And The Natives, A Children's Basic History. The Book Is Clean, Hinges Solid Although Front Hinge Cracked, Gilt And Black Lettering Bright And Complete With No Rubbing To Gilt Sky On Front Cover, Touches Of Rubbing Right At Corners, Two Previous Owner's Gift Inscriptions On Front Endpaper Dated In 1910 And 1916.

Cloth. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Color Plates (illustrator). New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers. G/No Dustjacket. (c1909). . Cloth. 4to., 158 pp., rubbed, bumped, edges frayed, page toning, writing on ffe .

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 158 Pp. + All Eight Full Color Plates (Including The Earliest Plates By Shrader). First Printing Of The First Edition,1909 (Also Later Reprinted By Barse & Hopkins, And Again Later By Grosset & Dunlap). .Green Cloth, Gilt And Black Lettering And Illustration. Inscribed By Shrader To His Mother, And Dated In Christmas 1909. Shrader Was A Student Of Howard Pyle, Later Head Of Faculty At The Otis Art Institute To 1949 And President Of The California Art Club From 1924 To 1930 And Again In 1934. A Children's History Of European Exploration In The Western Hemisphere In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries. Although The Title Refers To A Finding Of America, Which Is A Concept That Would Have Been Of The Greatest Surprise To The Inhabitants Who Were Found, The Book Is Otherwise Remarkable For Its Great Evenness Of Discussion Of Explorers And The Natives, A Children's Basic History Which I Think Would Still Be Largely Politically Correct Today And Which Is A Credit To, And Perhaps A Remarkable Change In, American Children's Historical Book Style, Which At Least Until This Time Was Generally Imperialist And Militaristic. The Book Is Very Worn, Spine Panel Completely Worn Through Along Front Spine Edge, Front Hinge Cracked Through, But Binding Remains Intact. Black Lettering On Front Board Partly Rubbed Away But Still Readable. Cloth Frayed At Edges. Excellent Provenance, Directly From Shrader's House In La Canada- Flintridge, Ca. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Color Plates By E. Roscoe Shrader And Herbert Moore, Decorations On Every Edge Of Every Page By Edwin J. Prittie. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 158 Pp. + Eight Full Color Plates, Including The Earliest Plates By Shrader, Later Head Of Faculty At The Otis Art Institute From 1919 To 1949 And President Of The California Art Club From 1924 To 1930 And Again In 1934 . Green Cloth, Gilt And Black Lettering And Illustration. First Printing,1909 (Also Later Reprinted By Barse & Hopkins With The Same 1909 Copyright Date, Later By Grosset & Dunlap. A Children's History Of European Exploration In The Western Hemisphere In The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries. Although The Title Refers To A Finding Of America Which Is A Concept That Would Have Been Of The Greatest Surprise To The Inhabitants Who Were Found, The Book Is Otherwise Remarkable For Its Great Evenness Of Discussion Of Explorers And The Natives, A Children's Basic History. The Book Is Clean, Hinges Solid Although Front Hinge Cracked, Gilt And Black Lettering Bright And Complete With No Rubbing To Gilt Sky On Front Cover, Touches Of Rubbing Right At Corners, Two Previous Owner's Gift Inscriptions On Front Endpaper Dated In 1910 And 1916.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. E. Roscoe Shrader and Herbert Moore, Color Illustrations; Edwin I. Prittie, Decorations; (illustrator). Edition not stated 1909. Published by Grosset & Dunlap. Hardcover in full cloth decorated with picture of three ships in gold and black on the front cover, title in gold on the front cover, no DJ as issued. Condition as new inside, no markings of any kind, no names, no underlinings, no highlights, no bent page corners, corners worn, spine edges slightly chipped. Not a reminder. Small 4to, 158 pages, illustrated with color plates by E. Roscoe Shrader and Herbert Moore and decorated on every page by Edwin I. Prittie.

Hardcover. Vintage Copy. Good in boards. Tearing to edges of boards. Staining to boards. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.