stuart bertha decorations (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good +. No Jacket. Christy, Howard Chandler; Stuart, Bertha, decorations by (illustrator). Nonpaginated. Red boards with very minor shelf wear, lightly bumped corners, light soil. Tight spine not square. Light soil on fep, ffep and several pgs. Eleven color illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy. Decorations by Bertha Stuart.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Red Cloth, Gilt. First Printing Of This Illustrated Edition, 1913. Fine, No Marks Or Wear Or Discoloration, Gilt Brilliant.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dustjacket. Edmund Frederick, Illustrator; Bertha Stuart, Decorations (illustrator). Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1910. Very Good+/no dust jacket. Edmund Frederick, Illustrator; Bertha Stuart, Decorations. Clean decorated binding - green cloth boards with blind-stamped decoration on cover, plus clean unchipped circular paste-on color illustration, stamped white lettering (white lettering somewhat chipped). No fraying or wear to cloth. Binding is tight and square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (slight foxing to endpapers). No names, writing or bookplates. Beautiful color illustrations by Edmund Frederick, with lovely page decorations and blind-stamped cover decoration by Bertha Stuart. 195 pages.

Popular Civil War poem with each page embellished in pink decoration, along with 11 full-page 2-color illustrations. Also includes another related poem, The Silent Victors. Nice tight clean copy (no foxing). 5-1/4 x 7-3/4, approx 90 unnumbered pp on heavy stock, color illus & pink decoration throughout. VeryGood w small owner signature inside (1925) else unmarked, spine retaped in black tape and edges touch-up for a handsome overall appearance. Hardcover in green cloth boards w black titling, no jacket.

Pictorial Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Ex-library w/usual markings; covers have rubbing to edges w/small tears and some soiling, interior hinges starting to crack, binding a little shaken, pages mildly toning, pencilled inscription on 2nd blank page; 272 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Hardcover. Half-bound brown wood-like paper-covered boards with and white cloth-covered spine. Decorative white and green floral stamping on the front cover and spine. Deckled page edge. Paper at the corners has worn away; revealing boards beneath. Small white stain at the foot of the spine. Binding is square. Top page edge gilt. Stamping is eye catching. Handsomely illustrated endpapers. Front gutter is halfway torn at the foot; muslin is intact and strong. Front free endpaper is signed by Kate Seddon. No date on title page. Copyright page is dated 1902. 114 pages plus a two page index. Interiors are clean and unmarked. A fair copy. This book is from the Seddon family collection. James Seddon was a congressman from Virginia and then when Virginia seceded from the Union, he served as Secretary of War for the Confederacy. His wife was Sarah Bruce, daughter of one of the richest men in America. They lived at Sabot Hill, outside of Richmond. Their son Arthur married Josephine Venable. Josephine's sister was named Kate Venable and she married Alexander Hamilton (not the famous one). Josephine and Arthur had a son named Kate, as well. This book and the others listed beside it came from Sabot Hill, which burned down after WWI.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Howard Chandler Christy, Illustrator; decorations by Bertha Stuart (illustrator). Clean, attractive book illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy, with decorations by Bertha Stuart. Beige-gray cloth boards with stamped black lettering on cover. No fraying or wear-through. Binding is tight, pages are clean and bright. Clean endpapers - no names, writing or marks. Barely a trace of soiling to cloth covers - nearly fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Decorations by Bertha Stuart (illustrator). 1st Edition. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 13 tipped-in full page color plates including the frontispiece (most other copies seem to have 16). Some plates have creases at lower left edges. Light scattered foxing throughout. Minor edge and corner wear to binding. Book protected in new mylar. No previous owner's names.