Peter Armstrong Et Al (8 results)

Stapled Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. (32pp.) Errata slip tipped onto inside cover. From the editor, Peter Armstrong's library. Edges of text-block & head of covers fractionally foxed. Paul Kitchin (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear.

Stapled Wraps/ Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 56pp. Top edge lightly foxed. Covers slightly marked. Ken Lee (cover) (illustrator).

Side-Stapled A4 Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (23pp.) Front cover a little soiled & creased & missing a minute dog-toothed fragment at the fore edge.

Stapled A4 / Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 35pp + 13pp. Wrappers very slightly creased & soiled. Staples a little rusty with marks on the front of Turnbull's Twenty Words. Along with a short thin strip of foxing at its tail edge. Martin Lister (cover) (illustrator).

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 142pp. (including printed inside covers). Very light handling wear & foxing to covers. From the library of contributor, Peter Armstrong.

Pamphlet. [28p] 6.5x8.5 inches, very good poetry & literary journal, mimeographed booklet in stapled silkscreened pictorial brown wraps. Limited to no more than 250 copies according to introduction. Scarce poetry journal/Little Magazine founded by Rosemary Deval, Stuart Mills and later Simon Cutts. The three began publishing out of the Trent Book Shop in Nottingham in 1962. Eleven issues of Tarasque were published between 1965 and 1971 (nos. 1?11/12). This issue contains a lengthy critique by V. Slade of "Briggflatts" by Basil Bunting. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A Story-teller's Pack. By Frank R. Stockton. Illustrated by Peter Newell, W. T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E. W. Kemble. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. Complete 16 plates. Finely decorated signed binding by Margaret Armstrong measures 7.75 x 5", 8vo. In good condition. Boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine bumped; spine normally tanned from shelf-wear/sun-exposure. Top edge of text-block gilt; fore & bottom edges deckled. Ownership inscription, in ink, found on tipped-in front end-page. Normal toning in margins; some sparse instances of age-staining. Plates intact. Binding intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Margaret Neilson Armstrong (1867-1944) was a 19th and early 20th century American book cover designer, illustrator, and author. She is best known for her book covers influenced by Art Nouveau. She also wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive guide to wildflowers of the American west, Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (1915). She began her career as a book cover designer in the late 1880s, initially doing commissions for Charles Scribner's Sons and A.C. McClurg and later for other publishers as well. She designed more than 314 book covers and book bindings, about half of which were for Scribner's. Her later work was influenced by Art Nouveau and favored plant-related motifs, bold colors, gold stamping, and often slightly asymmetrical designs in compositions that often seemed to be moving while standing still. Beginning in 1895, Armstrong began leaving her monogram on most of her covers; it is a simple "MA" in upper case with the "M" slightly overlapping the "A". Armstrong's designs were so successful, sometimes publishers would hire artists specifically to imitate her look. COLI1897ABDO - 04/26 - HK3529. Margaret Armstrong, Peter Newell et al (illustrator).…