Alan Robinson Illus (6 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 4to, 60 pp. Illus. Alan James Robinson (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; 84 clean, unmarked pages; articles about Postage Stamps; Postal Service; Nature and Operation of the Sea Post Office, Business College Mail, Type 1 Doeane Census Report, Postmarks of Washington Territory: Pierce County, Grass Valley California Markingws, Sand hills of nebraska, Pt. 4; Postal History of Mills & Iron Furnaces in Hartford County, Maryland, Pneumatic Tube Mail Service in Philadelphia, Maple Leaf Route: The Cleveland & Eastern Traction Company, Etc. Maps, Sketches, b/w Illus (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. stapled pictorial wraps; 80 clean, unmarked pages; articles about Postage Stamps; Postal Service; Postmarks, 20th Century Non-Standard Postmarking & Cancelling devices, Pt. 7; Different Kind of "Vover", Postmasters, Charles Richardson of 1st Illinois Volunteers, Lemi Agency, Idaho, Orcutt California, Samuel Clark Pomeroy, Doane Cancellations of Michigan, Advertising Markings, Etc. Maps, Sketches, b/w Illus (illustrator). …

Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition of 120 copies. 24 p. 22 cm. Stapled yellow paper covers. Soiling to covers. First page has label and ink stamp.

Limited edition. Deluxe issue. One of 50 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the artist, this being copy no 4. 8vo. Quarter green crushed morocco over gray birch-veneer boards, bound by Gray Parrot, with text printed letterpress in two colors on T. H. Saunders pure rag paper; together with an additional suite containing the publisher's signed prospectus and 15 wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, each numbered and signed and housed in a cloth chemise, the whole housed in the original matching cloth and birch-veneer clamshell case, with titles stamped in silver on the spine. Faint stain on the rear of the slipcase else a fine copy. The text prints three versions of the Jumping Frog story: the original, then translated into French, and finally "clawed back into a civilized language once more by patient, unrenumerated toil." .…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Folio. (98)pp. Illustrated with eight hand-colored etchings, four wood engravings, and six line-cuts, each protected by a guard of speckled, salmon-colored tissue, and with calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Beautifully bound by Claudia Cohen in hand-made speckled paper, with spine and edges of light blue morocco. In addition, the deluxe binding has an onlaid panel of blue morocco with a Jock Scott salmon fly in multi-color leather inlay, by Gray Parrot. The extra suite and the watercolor are enclosed in a linen chemise, housed with the book in a quarter-morocco drop-back box. This beautiful book is in fine condition with the merest blush of sunning to spine. One of fifty deluxe copies, signed at the colophon and at each illustration by Robinson. With an extra suite of illustrations, also all signed, and an original watercolor.…