Binding Margaret Armstrong (97 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. ARMSTRONG, MARGARET (BINDING DESIGNER), Pyle, Howard (illustrator).

Condition: New.

Condition: GOOD. First printing. A novel by this prolific writer, bound in lavender cloth in a beautiful example of Margaret Armstrong's Art Nouveau style with gilt lettering and gilt leaves and spiderweb. Each page has the text inside black ruled borders with red running heads. 393 pp. Top edge gilt. Good overall (previous owner's name, some spots of foxing, rubbing to spine).…

Condition: VERY GOOD. 2nd printing (same month as the first) A novel by this prolific writer, bound in lavender cloth in a beautiful example of Margaret Armstrong's Art Nouveau style with gilt lettering and a gilt and purple grapevine, with her monogram on the front board. Color frontispiece portrait by Blendon Campbell with a printed tissue guard. Each page has the text inside black ruled borders with red running heads. 372 pp. Very good overall (front hinge cracked, gift inscription dated 1910).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 170 pages; Blue cloth with decorative pictorial design to cover by Margaret Armstrong. Soundly bound but a bit shabby. Cloth a little toned and wrinled at spine; corners lightly bumped. Front endpage torn out and missing. Soap bar sized area of white discoloration to the cloth of the lower board. Cloth worn at spine ends; scattered light foxing to page stock. Rear endpage hinge tender. Filler copy of this uncommon Wells humor/verse title. Good only.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

vi, 162 pages plus unpaged color plates. Hardcover: H 18.6cm x L 13.5cm. Lacks dust jacket. Light blue cloth binding with bright gilt stamping to spine with light flaking to publisher imprint at heel; front board decorated with green, white, and gilt stamping with "M.A." monogram at lower right for renowned binding designer Margaret Armstrong. Slight scuffing at lightly bumped spine ends and at board corner tips. Gilt top edge; deckle fore-edge and bottom edge. Light toning to endpapers; occasional light foxing/toning to interior pages strongest to pages adjacent to plates. Binding is firm. Still a handsome book.…

First edition, first printing: lavender cloth with spine titles and devices, gilt titles and gilt-and-purple grape vignettes to front, gilt top edge. Mild darkening to spine, whisper of wear at extremities, minor rippling to first few leaves, owner's name to front endsheet, thus near fine; no dust jacket. Full-color inserted frontispiece from a painting by Blendon Campbell with mottoed tissue guard. I shall always write stories of simple lives and homes--stories that I hope will make women think of their particular duties in the home life, and that will set before young girls a high ideal of life."--Reed. By the author of LAVENDER AND OLD LACE.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. x p., 1 l., 295, [1] p. front., plates. 20 cm. ; LC: PZ3.V288; PS3117; Dewey: 813.5 ; OCLC: 1220676 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : A lover of music.--The reward of virtue.--A brave heart.--The gentle life.--A friend of justice.--The white blot.--A year of nobility.--The keeper of the light. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; illustrations in color by Walter Appleton Clark ; " the ruling passion is shown in its season of empire over a few lives. In almost all lives romantic love has its season. But there are other passions no less real, such as music, nature, children, honor, strife, revenge, money, pride, friendship, loyalty, duty" ; ex-library, stamps, label ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong. ; FAIR. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. This 1897 first edition, in a brightly decorated binding designed by the great Margaret Armstrong, celebrates the work of Frank R. Stockton (1834-1902), subversive humorist and writer of both fairy-tales and science fiction, best known for his classroom staple, the fable "The Lady, or the Tiger?" Illustrated throughout in 16 plates by Peter Newell, W. T. Smedley, Frank O. Small, Alice Barber Stephens, and E. W. Kemble, the "Story-teller's Pack" holds among its contents: "The Magic Egg," in which a magician's betrothed investigates his use of a wish-granting egg to hypnotize his audiences; "The Widow's Cruise," chronicling "the very successful endeavor of a good woman, not only to rise to the level of the male maritime yarn, but to soar above it, and to look with pardonable contempt upon certain persons of the contrary sex, who had under-estimated her"; and the supernatural mystery "The Bishop's Ghost and the Printer's Baby," inspired by the crumbling tomb of Chaucer in Westminster Abbey. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4". viii, 380pp. Binding designed by Margaret Armstrong, with her monogram to upper board. Bound in green cloth over boards, ribboned in gilt and white to upper board and spine, both lettered in gilt, with scrolls and sack in white garlanded in gilt to upper board. Mild wear to binding, with sunning to spine and faintly to edges of rear board and bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Top edge gilt. Binding is sound. Pages are gently age-toned throughout, with crease to last ten pages, else clean and unmarked. Illustrated in a tissue-guarded frontispiece and 15 black and white plates. …

Blue Cloth, Gilt. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Xiii, 296 Pp. Blue Cloth, Elaborately Gilt And With Green Center Panel, Top Edge Gilt. First Printing, With 1901 Date On Title Page. Clean, No Names Or Marks, Spine And Cover Gilt Brilliant, Barest Touch Of Wear At Corners And Along Top Edge Of Spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Xv, 325 Pp. Blue Cloth, Elaborately Gilt And Multicolor Margaret Armstrong Design, Top Edge Gilt. First Printing, With 1908 Date On Title Page, And "Published November 1908" On Copyright Page. . Clean, No Names Or Marks, Spine And Cover Gilt Brilliant. Exceptionally Well Preserved, No Fading. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 322 pages, [8] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 07-33932 ; Gullans & Espey ; 283; LC: PS3117 ; OCLC: 26560136 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Days off -- A holiday in a vacation -- His other engagement -- Books that I loved as a boy -- Among the Quantock Hills -- Between the lupin and the laurel -- Little Red Tom -- Silverhorns -- Notions about novels -- Some remarks on gulls -- Leviathan -- The art of leaving off. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in Illustrations by F.E. Schoonover.; Dark blue (C183)--calico grain cloth; gilt lettering framed by gold, pale green, pale blue and white lupin and laurel design; wear to covers ; flower motif repeated on spine in gilt; partially untrimmed ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; G. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. April 1921 printing ; viii, 306 pg. [8] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 12-23517 ; LC: PZ3.V288; Dewey: 813.52 ; OCLC: 798767 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "This volume contains nineteen very pleasant short stories, all of which have some mystical touch in them."--The Spectator. ; Contents : The wedding-ring -- Messengers at the window -- The countersign of the cradle -- The key of the tower -- The ripening of the fruit -- The king's jewel -- The music-lover -- Humoreske -- An old game -- The unruly sprite -- A change of air -- The night call -- The effectual fervent prayer -- The return of the charm -- Beggars under the bush -- Stronghold -- In the odour of sanctity -- The sad shepherd -- The mansion. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in Illustrations by Charles Shepard Chapman and Garth Jones.; "Born in Morristown, New York, Charles Chapman was a noted teacher, painter, and illustrator who, although he often claimed he was self-taught, was educated at Pratt Institute*, and in 1899 at William Merritt Chase's New York School of Art* in New York City. He was highly influenced by the famed western artist Frederic Remington. One of his techniques he described was painting with "Water-Oils", where he floated oil paint on water on paper, and then laid paper over the floating design, which left an abstract affect. Chapman specialized in landscapes, and although he spent most of his life in the East, he traveled extensively in the West, especially Wyoming and Arizona where a frequent subject was the Grand Canyon. In 1938, he spent a month at the Canyon and also painted ranch landscapes and in the Snowy Range of Wyoming. n the 1930s, he was commissioned by the Museum of Natural History in New York to paint a thirty-by-thirty-foot mural of the Grand Canyon as a background for the Puma group exhibit. He camped for several weeks at the rim of the Canyon while he worked on this project."--AskART ; "Alfred Garth Jones (1872-1955) was an English artist and illustrator who worked mainly in woodcut, pen and ink line art drawing and watercolour. In America, his illustrations for Henry van Dyke's short stories the Half-Told Tales appeared in the January to June, 1912 issue of Scribner's Magazine.[13] In October 1912, Charles Scribner's Sons published the first edition of Van Dyke's The Unknown Quantity, with artwork by various illustrators, of which Garth Jones was one ; Dark blue (C183)--calico grain cloth; gilt lettering framed by gold, pale orange design; flower motif repeated on spine in gilt; partially untrimmed ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; VG. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. xi, 357 pages, [8] leaves of plates : portraits ; 20 cm LCCN: 29-21279 ; LC: PR99; Dewey: 809 ; OCLC: 596932 ; ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : Lights in poetry -- Problematic natures in English literature -- Four noteworthy modern novels. ; Binding is similar to those designed by Margaret Armstrong, but it is signed E.L.F ; Dark blue (C183) calico grain cloth; gold, purple, and aqua grape vines, clusters, and tulips, gold lettering, signed "ELF."; motif repeated on spine in gold; partially untrimmed. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ;"The thirteen essays contain penetrating and well-seasoned studies of the work and personalities of literary figures from Chaucer to Thornton Wilder" ; authors include Thomas Hardy Thornton Wilder, Willa Cather, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Lee Masters, Poe, Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Carlyle, Byron, George Meredith and Walt Whitman ; foxing ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. ix, 319 pages, [6] leaves of photographic plates : illustrations ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 21-7796 ; Gullans & Espey 288 ; OCLC: 1406397 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "Some of the chapters in this book were written as a series of monthly papers in Scribner's magazine in the years 1920-21"--Preface. ; Contents : Camp-fires and guide-posts -- A certain insularity of islanders -- A basket of chips -- Self, neighbor, and company -- Sympathetic antipathies -- Publicomania -- Moving day -- Firelight views -- Fishing in strange waters -- The pathless profession -- A mid-Pacific pageant -- Japonica -- Interludes on the koto -- Suicidal tendencies in democracy -- A bundle of letters -- Christmas greens -- On saying good-bye -- Fellow-travellers : An old-style American -- Interpreter's house -- The healing gift -- A traveller from Altruria. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; fine illustrations from photographs by Mathilde Weil ; "Mathilde Weil was born in Pennsylvania in January 1872. She was interested in art from an early age, and studied drawing and painting in Philadelphia at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Decorative Art League, and the Museum of Industrial Art, and at a summer school in Annisquam, Massachusetts. In 1892, Weil obtained a bachelor of arts degree from Bryn Mawr College and almost immediately secured literary positions. Between 1893 and 1896, she read manuscripts for the publisher Macmillan and she served as an editor for Book Review and American Historical Review. Weil acquired her first camera in the winter of 1896-97 and established a portrait studio within a few months. Locating her studio in Philadelphia's main business district, Weil soon became one of the city's most well-known portraitists. She charged the highest fees and avoided the excess retouching that was routine in photographic portraits. Her specialties were children and home and outdoor portraiture. On the latter, she wrote two articles; one made up an entire issue of Photo-Miniature (January 1904) and the other appeared in the May 1906 issue of Country Life in America." -- Christian Peterson ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in turquoise blue cloth over boards; stamped in gold on front cover and spine; top edge gilt and trimmed. ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. February 1924 printing ; x p., 1 l., 295, [1] p. front., plates. 20 cm. ; LC: PZ3.V288; PS3117; Dewey: 813.5 ; OCLC: 1220676 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : A lover of music.--The reward of virtue.--A brave heart.--The gentle life.--A friend of justice.--The white blot.--A year of nobility.--The keeper of the light. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; illustrations in color by Walter Appleton Clark ; " the ruling passion is shown in its season of empire over a few lives. In almost all lives romantic love has its season. But there are other passions no less real, such as music, nature, children, honor, strife, revenge, money, pride, friendship, loyalty, duty" ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong. ; foxing ; partially untrimmed ; name on front endpaper ; VG. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Dustjacket, as Issued. First Edition, First Impression. 372 Pp. Deluxe Binding Of Full Limp Roan Leather. Gilt Lettering With Elaborate Blindstamped Brown Grape And Vine Decorations On Cover, Design On Spine. Top Edge Gilt, Deckled Edges. Endpapers With Very Delicate Design Of Minute Vine Leaves. A Fine Copy, Unworn, Unfaded, Gilt Brilliant, No Names Or Marks. With A Long Newsppaer Clipping Of Her Obituary. From Wikipedia: Myrtle Reed ( 1874 -1911) Was An American Author, Poet, Journalist, And Philanthropist. She Wrote A Number Of Bestsellers And Even Published A Series Of Cookbooks Under The Pseudonym Olive Green. She Graduated From The West Division High School, Chicago, Where She Edited The School's Newspaper Called The Voice, During Which Time She Corresponded With James Sydney Mccullough, A Young Irish-Canadian Who Was Editing A College Newspaper In Toronto.[1] She Married Mccullough In 1906, After A Courtship Of Nearly 15 Years.[1] She Was A Diagnosed Insomniac With Prescribed Sleeping Drafts. She Died On August 17, 1911, Aged 36, Of An Overdose Of Sleeping Powder Taken With Suicidal Intent In Her Flat, Called "Paradise Flat" At 5120 Kenmore Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Her Suicide Letter, Written To Her Maid, Annie Larsen, Was Published The Following Day. Her Will Directed Her Estate Be Divided Among Eight Charities That For Several Years Had Been Favorites Of Their Benefactor; However, Her Estate Was Subjected To At Least Two Different Lawsuits. Paradise Flat, The Residence In Which She Died, Was Burgled During Her Funeral; Among The Stolen Items Were Several De Luxe Or Signed, Slipcased, Limited-Edition Novels Written By The Decedent. A Famous Epigram Of Myrtle Reed, Taken From Threads Of Gray And Gold, Declares: "The Only Way To Test A Man Is To Marry Him. If You Live, It's A Mushroom. If You Die, It's A Toadstool." According To The Obituary, Reed Held Many Home Entertainments Including A "Model Husband Contest" Which Her Husband Won, But Her Suicide Note To A Friend Stated "If My Husband Had Been As Good And Kind To Me And As Considerate As You I Would Not Be Going Where I Am".…

Very Good (covers bright, a 1906 non-authorial ink presentation on a front blank page; about one-third of the pages have light damp-staining; few very tiny tears or minor nicks to edge of covers). A scarce copy in this binding! 8vo., brown limp-leather, stamped in gilt (top edge gilt, patterned satin endpapers); 393 pages First Edition. In a scarce brown limp-leather binding, stamped in gilt on front cover & spine, top edge gilt. Margaret Armstrong designed this binding, which is very similar to the binding on the first edition, issued in hardcover. This binding, while as cited by Armstrong, has the initials "SH" on the front cover. A scarce binding for this title, I have found no other. Armstrong designed most of Reed's book covers. Binding by Margaret Armstrong. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. , 1903. Presumed second edition, following the 1901 issue. Octavo. Publisher's full green cloth designed by Margaret Armstrong, featuring an elaborate gilt and pictorial cover and spine design incorporating a mounted embossed floral fabric panel to the upper cover. One of Armstrong's most ambitious decorative projects, with each page framed by richly detailed ornamental borders printed black on yellow - many unique - forming an integrated visual design throughout. Tissue-guarded frontispiece present. Soundly bound with clean interior. Cloth shows mild, even flecking concentrated to the lower portions of the covers and light shelf rubbing at extremities; decorative panel and gilt remain bright and well preserved. Interior leaves bright and clean, with borders sharp and clear. A solid, attractive example of this notable Armstrong production. VG to VG+.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. First printing of the Toronto imprint, duodecimo size, 412 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong (1867-1944), utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns, were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs, often for the works of well-known authors such as Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, and George Washington Cable. In addition to designing books, Armstrong wrote books as well, including a comprehensive guide to wildflowers in the American West, which she also illustrated. This novel by George Washington Cable (1844-1925) tells of a romance set in New Orleans during the American Civil War; Cable, considered the "first modern southern writer", used his fiction to highlight the injustices of racism in the South, and he is considered a precursor to William Faulkner. This volume is a scarce Toronto imprint, and has a vintage bookseller's ticket on the rear paste-down endpaper from a book shop in Vancouver, B. C. ___DESCRIPTION: Full red cloth, decorative pattern in black, light blue, and gilt by Margaret Armstrong (unsigned) with title in gilt on the front board, gilt lettering and ornament in black and gilt on the spine, frontispiece illustration by Alonzo Kimball with tissue guard, title page with black ruled borders, black-and-white illustrations by Kimball throughout; duodecimo size (7.5" by 5.25"), pagination: [i-vi] vii-x [xi-xii] 1-396 [397-400]. Vintage bookseller's ticket on the rear paste-down endpaper from "G. S. Forsyth & Co. / Booksellers & Stationers, / Vancouver, B. C." ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, with clean boards, straight corners, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, and the interior is clean and bright; some rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the corners, spine is lightly sunned, and there is a faded prior owner name on both paste-down endpapers. ___CITATION: Gullans and Espey, no. 58. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. Kimball, Alonzo (illustrator). …

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 10th printing.Original navy blue publisher's binding; bower of roses surrounding author/title, all stamped in gold; binding signed MA [Margaret Armstrong] ([4], ix, 426 pages) : color frontispiece + 7 full color plates,Cloth binding design, by Margaret Armstrong, was also used for author's The rosary. Cf. Gullans & Espey CONDITION: very slight fade to spine, ink sig. on front blank, else a very bright, tight, clean example of an American Trade binding Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Margaret Armstrong (Binding designer) F. H. Townsend (Illustrator) (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Tinted drawings, pictorial borders, head and tail ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 107 pages; 1905. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York. HC 1st edition, with "Published September 1905" on copyright page and 1905 on title page. Snugly bound and fresh in original green cloth variant binding designed by Margaret Armstrong, with her sundial and arbor design stamped in white, pale red, and gilt on upper board and spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated by Helen Maitland Armstrong with nine full-page signed tinted drawings; decorated page borders and endsheets by Margaret Armstrong. A variant binding state of the first edition, produced using the original Armstrong cover die. Cloth bright and clean, with just mild crimping to spine ends and minimal rubbing to corner tips; gilt and color stamping sharp; hinges sound; all plates present and fine. A handsome and uncommon copy of this celebrated Armstrong design, a fine example of American Art Nouveau bookbinding. NF.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. April 1921 printing ; viii, 306 pg. [8] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm ; LCCN: 19-4519 ; LC: PZ3.V288; Dewey: 813.52 ; OCLC: 3877039 ; decorated blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; "This volume contains nineteen very pleasant short stories, all of which have some mystical touch in them."--The Spectator. ; Contents : A Remembered dream -- Antwerp road -- A City of refuge -- A Sanctuary of trees -- The King's high way -- The Traitor in the house -- Justice of the elements -- Ashes of vengeance -- The Broken soldier and the maid of France -- The Hearing ear -- Sketches of Quebec -- A Classic instance -- The New era and carry on -- The Primitive and his sandals -- Diana and the lions -- The Hero and tin soldiers -- Salvage point -- The Boy of Nazareth dreams. ; Van Dyke was a professor of English literature at Princeton between 1899 and 1923. In 1908-09 he was an American lecturer at the University of Paris. By appointment of President Wilson, a friend and former classmate of van Dyke, he became Minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. ; Decorated cloth binding by Margaret Armstrong, bound in Illustration by Edward Hopper. The story of the Scribner's work, which was important to Hopper, is recounted by Gail Levin: "Fame fostered Hopper's career in illustration. In September 1918, he began to sell to Scribner's, a cut above his usual clients. Walter TIttle claimed credit for the first assignment: 'I succeeded in getting him a bit of work from Scribner's magazine almost by brow-beating my old friend [Joseph Hawley] Chapin [the art editor], insisting that here was a man really too good for him.' Hopper's wife came on the scene to observe: 'Scribner's were wonderful to him, let him go his own gait, careful not to give him things not his kind to do.' His kind: te first story they gave him to read was 'The hearing ear', by Henry Van Dyke, which dealt with heroic rescue in the war. The two drawings, which appeared in the issue of December 1918, added one hundred dollars to Edward's books." ; Dark blue (C183)--calico grain cloth; gilt lettering framed by gold, with red and white lily designs; flower motif repeated on spine in gilt; partially untrimmed ; Trade edition issued in dark blue cloth ; foxing ; name on front endpaper ; scarce Hopper source ; VG. Book. …