Frank Pape Illustrations (16 results)

Illustrated Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. Minimal shelf handling; The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, age-toning and a bit of fading of the spine. Appears unread; no spine crease. Originally published in 1927. Something About Eve, an entry in the Poictesme series, 'shows its non-hero feebly intending to gain promised glory awaiting in the land of 'Antan' but forever delayed on Mispec Moor (anagram: 'Compromise'), wearing literal rose-colored spectacles and beguiled by the woman Maya, while bolder folk like Solomon and Odysseus pass by on the road to Antan.' -The Encyclopedia of Fantasy Ref: isfd. Illustrations by Frank C. Pape; Cover Art by Howard Koslow. (illustrator).…

HardCover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In half-black cloth over gilt and black patterned boards, housed in publisher's decorative slipcase, 8vo. viii, 209, [2] pages. ". story of Alfgar who heard the music from behind the moon" (slipcase label) in five parts plus a "colophon"; dedicated to publisher Robert M. McBride. Notable for Pape's decorative material as well. "Published October, 1929 / (First Impression)" (title page verso). (slight fading at spine, sm. bump to spine). Pape, Frank C. (illustrator); Over 30 b/w Illustrations (including Decorations & Title vignette) (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1936. First edition [1936]. Illustrated history of the stone-age people geared for children, with black and white drawings by Pape throughout. Includes: The Discovery of Fire; Fierce Animal Enemies; Stone for Tools and Weapons; Early Cooking and Sewing; Taming the Dog; Early Boats; Cave Artists at Work; Taming the Horse; Changes in the Late Stone Age; and A Reading List. Pictorial covers, 64 pages. Covers worn and lightly soiled, front endpaper and title page foxed, pages mainly quite clean. Old newspaper clipping mounted on inside front cover. No names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. Oblong 12mo.…

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Good/Good. New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company. Good/Good. 1923. . Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 275 p.p., Shelf wear; head and tail of spine and corners of cover bumped; shelf lean; cracked inner hinge; front dust jacket panel loose from rest of dust jacket panels, in plastic protective cover; corners of dust jacket torn; head and tail of dust jacket spine torn; small stain on back hardcover; page edges and pages toned otherwise pages clean and unmarked. . Black & White Plates and Illustrations; Frontispiece (illustrator).…

Pictorial Boards. Condition: G/No Dustjacket. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Company. G/No Dustjacket. (1936). . Pictorial Boards. Oblong 24mo., 64 pp., rubbed, wriitng inside cover and on Tpage, . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated Edition. Xix, 243 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. Illustrated Endpapers. First Illustrated Edition, 1927, First Printing, October, One Month After First (Unillustrated) Edition, September. Light Usage, Cover Gilt Brilliant, Spine Cloth And Gilt Faded, Light Fraying At Corners. Light Pencil Emphasis Marks In Margins. Former Owner's Name And A Fe Marginal Emphasis Lines. Plates, Drawings In Text (illustrator).…

Decorative Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No DJ. Limited Edition. Unmarked, clean and solid copy. Dark grey cloth with bright gilt decoration and lettering on front and gold lettering on spine. Limited Edition of 2,000 copies, this being copy 1243. Illustrations & Decorations by Frank Pape (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good Condition. No Dust Jacket. White cloth binding. Front cover has line illustrations with title and author. Spine is faded and worn with top and bottom rubbed and bumped. Binding shown some minor soil. Top of front hinge of spine has 5 cm split along hinge .front edge. 134pp+2pp advts. Content is clean, bright and sound with name of previous owner and date (1917) on front flyleaf. This book may require additional postage. Photos available on request. Coloured and Line Illustrations By Frank C. Pape (illustrator). …

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated edition. 1926 Illustrated edition. A Very Good copy. Tall 8vo., 249 pp., illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and 11 plates. Bound in full, blue leather with red title and author red morocco labels. Top edge gilt. End papers marbled. The boards have edge wear and along the joints. Spine lightly sunned to a greenish hue. Text clean with wide margins. Tight.…

[1933]. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 201pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, bibliography, index. There is a previous owner's name, the spine is lightly worn at the top and bottom. Biography of Charles II--King of England. Time Period. Illustrations by Frank C. Pape. Locale. (History--England). …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. "Previously published by Macmillan and Co., London 1914" , ""Copyright © Bracken Books 1989" and "This edition published by Crescent Books" stated. Letter line beginning with a. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine unpriced, unclipped dust jacket. Only trivial signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket: primarily to very tip of head of dust jacket spine and to lower edges of book. Frank Pape (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 348 pp., with numerous illustrations. Moderate shelf and handling wear. Previous owner's whimsically detailed ex-libris sticker affixed to ffep. Head and foot of spine and corners and edges of boards moderately bumped/rubbed. Moderate soiling and wear to boards, spine, and text block. Moderate soiling to pastedowns, endpapers, and a few early pages of the book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine DJ. First Illustrated Edition Thus. Xxv, 359 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt Title On Spine, Elaborate Gilt Illustration By Frank Pape On Front Cover. First Illustrated Edition, 1928, Stated First Impression. Black Cloth, Gilt. Red Topstain, Map Endpapers In Brown And Red; Dj Printed In Black On Very Thin And Fragile Gilt-Faced Paper. Fine In Near Fine Dj, No Fading, No Tears Or Chips, Gilt Bright But With A Little Oxidation, Not Price Clipped.…

This book is in fine condition. Apparently it has never been read because one would need a paper knife to split the bottoms of the uncut pages. There is a small dent in the middle of the back cover but other than that this book is near perfect. Jacket is sturdy and attractive. There is a 2" closed split along the front joint, a narrow triangular piece missing along the top edge of the back panel, a 3/4" tear in the top edge of back panel and edges are a little ruffled. Overall it is very good. Large 8vo. bound in gold stamped black cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Top edge stained red. 243 pp. Dust jacket is also black, though stamped in red First Impression of the Illustrated Edition printed October, 1927, ten years after the first edition of September 1917. With 12 illustrations by Frank C. Papé (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New.

First Edition. One of 2,000 numbered copies, this being copy no.1,770. Octavo (25cm); black cloth, with titling and pictorial elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial endpapers; red topstain; dustjacket and publisher's original black paper-covered slipcase; x,312,[2]pp, with frontispiece and 7 illustrated plates by Frank Papé. Some faint, scattered foxing to text edges; decorative label of The Sunwise Turn to lower rear pastedown; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $7.50), gently spine-sunned, with some wear, tears, and creases along the upper edge, and three tiny inked letters at upper spine; Very Good+ in like slipcase, showing some modest shelfwear, particularly around the opening. "An eighteenth-century French youth, imagining himself to be cast in the mold of a hero of chivalric romance, sets out to find his own Holy Grail, a fairytale princess; but this is the Age of Enlightenment, when the illusions of the past are to be set aside brutally, and he learns the extent of his self-delusion. Satire developing the Cervantean worldview in an uncompromisingly sarcastic manner" (Bleiler, Fantasy Literature 3-66). REGINALD 02400; SMITH C-10.…