Plank George Wolfe (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. George Wolfe Plank, frontispeice (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine first edition, olive green cloth boards w bright gilt box and title font on cover and gilt font on spine, deckled paper, shinny gilt foredge. Gilt top edge bright. 121 pps + ads/ Ex-libris plate on inside front cover and former owner's name penned on fep. Deckled paper. Interior pages without additional writing or marks. Cover quite clean and bright, corners bumped, spine rubbed.Frontispiece by George Wolfe Plank Dust wrapper is partially included, as someone has kept one panel of it which is loosely inserted in book. Untermeyer takes on the bard's in delightful parody.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Cover. Plank, George Wolfe (illustrator). Limited Edition. Hard cover limited edition, #81/1000. Illustrated with woodcuts by George Wolfe Plank back hinge worn, paper glued to endpapers.

FIRST EDITION limited to 250 copies (50 only for sale); lg.8vo., pp.viii,96; illustrations of nearly a hundred bookplates designs & several book illustrations; new in illustrated stiff paper covers. A fascinating and thoroughly researched account of this little-known book artist. Born Gettysburg in 1883, he sailed in 1914 to England where he stayed until his death in 1965. Initially much influenced in his bookplate work by Gordon Craig, his book illustrations included Vita Sackville-West's The Land & Family History (jacket), Benson's The Freaks of Mayfair and work for H[ilda] D[oolittle], Molly Keane & Marianne Moore. Illustration Bookplates BOOKPLATES.

Tipped in illustr "Priscilla" by H.C. Geiger, ads, 11.25 x 8.25, string tied stiff wraps, 19 pp + ads, covers with some edge wear and edge chipping, contents nice and clean. LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES. Includes "A Tryptich" by Sadakichi Hartmann, and "Playing with Fire" by August Strindberg translated by Francis J. Ziegler.

Illustr, 11. 25 x 8.25, pict wraps, 13 pp + ads, cover edges worn and chipping, contents with some finger soil else very nice, unopened. Beautifully done small press literary magazine, this issue with a play by Amy Smith, a tipped-in wood engraving by E. Thesleff, and an Index to Volume One.

Illustr, 11. 25 x 8.25, pict wraps, 13 pp + ads, cover edge worn and chipping, contents very nice. Beautifully done small press literary magazine, this issue with a poem and reproduction from an etching by Gordon Craig, plus sheet music (with its own cover) by Fred Allen (not THE Fred Allen, though) and Stanley Muschamp. LIMITED TO 500 NUMBERED COPIES.

With a foreword by John Craig. Pp. 96, appendices, index; impl. 8vo; pictorail brown stiff paper wrappers, lettered and decorated in black, fore-corners a trifle creased; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on verso of upper wrapper, fore-corners of a couple of leaves lightly creased; The Bookplate Society, London, 2002. Edition limitied to 250 copies (50 for sale). *Loosely inserted is a [reproduction?] of a bookplate Plank designed for William and Lesley Jowitt which is referenced in the text and features on the upper wrapper (and on page 56). American artist George Wolf Plank (1883-1965) is chiefly remembered for his long association with Vogue Magazine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. George Wolfe Plank (illustrator). First Edition. "To Mrs. Mary T. Walsh from her old friend Wm. Hooper Howells. Xmas 1915. Santa Monica Calif." Only 1000 copies printed. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed & Inscribed By Author.

Condition: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, June 8 (weekend SALE item)* Number 7 only; limited to 500 copies (the limitation is on back cover); folio (32.5 cm. tall), [2], 17, [3] (ads) pp, small woodcut illustrations in text, small tipped example woodcut portrait of Stephane Mallarme; paper wrappers margin chipped and library hand stamp on front cover, interior very good. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.

Condition: Good. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, June 8 (weekend SALE item)* Number 6 only; limited to 500 numbered copies; folio (32.5 cm. tall), [2], 15, [3] (ads) pp, small woodcut illustrations in text, small tipped example of a book plate designed by Plank; paper wrappers margin chipped with spine split and library hand stamp on front cover, interior very good; a large portion of this issue devoted to The White Heron by Fiona MacLeod (i.e. William Sharp). - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request.