Introduction by John Kendrick Bangs (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tan Cloth With Color Paste-On Illustration, Red Lettering. 4 Pp Introduction By Bangs. 52 Illustrations (On 50 Plates), Printed On One Side Of Pages Only. First Printing, 1899 Date On Title Page. First Page After Copyright Is Headed "Peter Newell" And Continues With Bang's Introduction. Wear To Covers, Small Frays At Corners, Lettering Intact, Thin 2" Abrasion To Lower Part Of Paste-On Illustration, Previous Owner's Name And 1900 Date On Second Front Free Endpaper. Hinge Lightly Cracked Between Two Pages Of Ads At Rear. B/W Illustrated Plates Throughout (illustrator).…

Hardcover. 260p., semi-coated paperstock with frontis, preface, introduction and appendices. The lineup includes poems by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Joaquin Miller et alia. Find two fullpage plates, a photoportrait of Pelton and an imaginary portrait of him standing under heavenly light. There are several steel-engraved vignettes and a small photo of the "First Baptist church and first public school in California, 1819" (even decades later it is a single building resembling a warehouse); a relevant newsclip is laid in that has offset badly. Also find pencilled brackets and the address of the no longer extant church. Pastedown bears a generic bookplate with another label farther on, the 9x6 inch maroon cloth casing is uglified by shelfwear and fray, dampstaining, and a dimming to near-illegibility of the gilt titling. Hinges are OK, text is clean and sound. Gilman is represented by a single contribution, "Thanksgiving", a twelve-line poem. Pelton was San Francisco's superintendent of public schools and founder of the first public schools in California. His son was the architect of Pelton Homes which can still be found in the Haight.…

332pp. + ads illustrated by E.W. Kemble. Bolton says 15 full page & 25 text line illus BAL 762: 1st edition thus, with introduction by John Kendrick Bangs Spine darkened, covers soiled, spine ends chipped, Good+ to VG-/no dj.

First edition. First edition. Illustrated by the author, on rectos only. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo. Peter Newell (1862-1924) whose formal art instruction consisted of three months at the Art Students League, became celebrated as a humorous artist: his work appeared in a number of magazines, and he produced illustrations for John Kendricks Bangs and other authors, among them Lewis Carroll. He wrote and illustrated several books of his own, including The Hole Book, The Slant Book, The Rocket Book, and his Pictures and Rhymes, all of which were popular successes. BAL 746 Original tan cloth with multicolored printed pictorial label on upper cover, slight soiling, else fine Illustrated by the author, on rectos only. 1 vols. Oblong 8vo.…