Garman K E (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Pages are clean and unmarked. A few pages have a slight wrinkle or bend. Previous owner's name and location in pencil at the top of the front cover. Very slight soiling to the journal's exterior. The spine is tanned from exposure to light. The book will be bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Presbygationalism in the Old Northwest" by William W. Sweet; "Vagabonding Around the World" by Niell Jamees; "The Materials of Business History" by Lyle C. Bryant; "A Business Man Uses Business History" by Clarence A. Jackson; "A Utopian Failure" by Richard Simons; "The Progressive Stage of the World Revolution" by Hans L. Leonhardt; "Report on Angel Mounds Site" by Glenn A. Black; "Some Kentucky Genealogical Sources" by Lucien Beckner; "Indiana Cemetery Records" by Harry O. Garman; "Problems and Methods of Legal History" by Jerome Hall; "Joseph A. S. Mitchell" by H. S. K. Bartholomew; "Biography of Dr. John Stough Bobbs" by Mrs. Olga S. Goldman; "Amos Twitchell's Copy of Beaumont's Physiology of Digestion" by Dr. Edgar F. Kiser; "Daniel Drake and His Contributions to Education" by Dr. Emmett Field Horine; "Fields Awaiting Investigation by Junior Historians" by Albert I. Kohlmeier; "Junior Historians" by Christopher B. Coleman; "Early Indiana Finance" by Donald Carmony; "Is War Justifiable?" by Vernon Van Dyke; "Proposals for New Readings in Indiana History" by Christopher R. Coleman; "Jesse l. And William S. Holman" by I. George Blake; "Lincolniana's Five-Foot Shelf" by Harry E. Pratt; "Who Shall Inherit America?" by Albert Edward Wiggam plus more!

Illustrated Wrapper. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Chips to front corners, edges and heel, gifting on front free end page with no writing or marking. Spot to top front panel. String bound. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. John Gollan "The Communist Campaign" / "Background of Iran's Revolt" / K.D.W. "China's New Democracy" / R Southall "Britain Without A Plan?" / Kitty Cornforth "Leon Blum's 'Moral Revolution'" / E Staines "National Independence" / Douglas Garman "All Souls and No Body". (SL#125/2).

Flexible covers. Condition: Fair. Pictorial die cut cardboard binding with blue cloth backstrip rubbed/chipped at extremities; a few of the complex corners creased/torn; boards lightly soiled/scuffed, gift inscription on front cover; text block detached from covers; quite a few small to 5" horizontal closed tears to fore-edges, especially at complex corners; portion of pig's foot missing from covers; most leaves a bit foxed/soiled, else a nice and much-loved copy of this curious story. ; Many nice color ils. & cover art in this cleverly die-cut volume. ; Small 4to; Unpaginated pages.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Text block has separated from covers- covers worn and rubbed.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Copyright by K. E. Garman. Text pages are 24mo. Not paginated. Near fine book in soft covers bound by red string, in near fine box. An elegant little book with inspirational messages. Upper right corner edge on box is cracked otherwise box would also be fine. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Quarto in color pictorial wrappers cut in shape of illustration; color illus.; 26 pp., 27 cm. In English; scarce. Fair(+) copy; a well-loved copy; worn wrappers with closed and open tears around the edges spine and corners; light pencils markings, scuffs and soil to wrappers; despite moderate to heavy wear, wrappers are still in one piece; lightly foxed and soiled pages; pages are in better condition overall; fragile binding.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Pictorial wraps, taped at gusset (yellowing tape) , front wrap creased, rear wrap tape repaired. This is the extremely rare First Edition of the "movie" picture book that despite its condition issues is highly collectible. ; 12" x 6"; 8 pages.

Hardcover. Color illus of 38 birds. (illustrator). 1st edition. VG book. Oblong 8vo. Stiff heavy paper boards. Cloth spine. 38 birds depicted, a 1" hole @ each head. Leaf 1 moderately foxed. The heads of each bird are stored in an envelope inside the front cover. 33 heads total, MISSING 5 heads. Extrems rubbed. VG book. 1st ed. Bright & tight. 5 leaves of heavy cardboard.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. No Jacket. Pub by Ideal Book Builders, 1913, #650. VG+ cond. hardcover, no dj. Die-cut shapebook w/ bright & colorful front & rear bds & blue cloth backstrip. Very, very light edgewear w/ no wrinkling, cracking or bending to complex corners. Bright & colorful illus on every page, most w/ very light shadowing on opposite page, as is common. Unpaginated, approx 26pp incl inside faces of front & rear covers. Book is tight & clean except as noted, overall VG+ or better cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Die-cut shape book cut into the form of an elephant playing an oboe(?). Small folio. Illustrated in color. Alternate leaves cut into four or five sections, so the images can be folded over onto the uncut versos in order to make silly pictures. Old neat and stable tape repair at the spine, modest rubbing at the edges, else a nice very good copy.

Illustrated throughout in color. 8vo, publisher's die-cut stiff wrappers illustrated in color. Fine. By turning the little leaves of this book back and forth the pictures will match any way they are turned showing 120 wonderful animals performing. Children's Favorite Series No. 3.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 21 x 28 cm. Green illustrated boards, red cloth spine. A unique board book with 6 pages showing 12 faces which can be mixed and matched with eyes, noes, and mouths that are housed in en envelope affixed to inside of front cover. Envelope holds 47 pieces, I believe it is missing one piece. Bit of scuffing to the cover. The directions read: "The Features of the faces in this book are cut from the heavy board leaves and are of proper shape and bevel to fit snugly into any of the holes of the different leaves. The page must have be laid properly and not to push them through. When removing them, press them up from the under side. The features may be used over and over again in any and all of the faces. Try putting the Clown's features into the Indian's face, and much amusement is to be had in finding the proper features for the different faces.".

Hardback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. K. E. Garman (illustrator). A very scarce children's puzzle book, featuring five plates with small pieces that can be pushed out, muddled up, and reinserted. A very scarce work.Illustrated with five vibrant colour plates, with a total of sixty push out pieces which are all present and have not been removed from their boards.Collated, complete.An envelope adhered to the front pastedown is empty, but is intended to be used for placing the pushed out puzzle pieces.Undated; dated circa 1924 via creator K. E. Garman's copyright. The patent had previously been renewed on 1912, 1914 and 1918.With the stamp of Michael and Megan Dawson, a husband and wife who established a successful business dealing in and restoring pop-up books, to the head of the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, very smart, with light handling marks to board perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Stamp to front pastedown. Plates bright, with light handling marks. Pop-out pieces all present and remain in their original plates. Very Good Indeed. book.

Condition: Poor. No. 601. Childen's Favorite Series No. 3. Leaves patented Jan. 15, 1907; Mar. 10, 1914. Animals are pictured in jungle and in circus settings. There are two leaves, the second of which has 4 horizontal cuts. This makes 6 flaps that enable various figures to be created. Volume is cut in the shape of an elephant, standing upright and dressed in a circus outfit; the front cover shows the elephant from the front, the back cover shows the elephant from behind. Front cover detached. Flap page has tape repairs. Tear in rear. Online descriptions suggest there were 12 p. originally, meaning much of this example is missing. Title continues: "Greatest show on earth: an up-to-date program of big circus acts: the newest and most attractive amusement features in the world exhibited for the first time in this delightful exhibition: by turning the little leaves of this book back and forth the pictures will match any way they are turned, showing 120 wonderful animals performing: the only show of strictly new and original methods: not for a day but for always.".

Litho on board. Six (6) pages each with illustrations of children, animals, toys, flowers and birds with die-cut holes where the faces belong. An envelope is affixed to the inside front cover that contains allthe faces. The faces are cut to the proper size and bevel to fit into the appropriate hole. Each page is titled with rhyming narrative at base relevant to the the illustration. The titles are Guess Who, Flower Children, In Toyland, Playtime, Farmyard Friends and Woodland Friends. All faces are present and fit in place. Measures 8 1/4" x 11". Book near mint. Housed in original box. 1 1/4 aprons lacking from box top; other aprons crushed and separated.

4°. 12 Seiten mit farb. Abb. Farbig ill. OPappband. Sehr selten ! 3 der 6 Blätter jeweils in 6 einzeln bewegliche Elemente aufgeteilt. So ergeben sich Tausende von lustigen Circus-Tierbildern.

4to. [16 pp (unpaginated).], colour-illustrated throughout, w/ every other leaf divided into 18 sliced sections which can overlay in multiple combinations on facing pages. Self-printed colour-illustrated die-cut softcovers in shape of goose (minor scuffing, darkening to fore-edges, faint ownership at spine, wear at spine, w/ minor closed tear), still VG- copy. First edition of this installment in Garman's pioneering moveable activity book. Garman (1873-1961)began as a cartoonist with the Chicago Daily News with his comic series entitled The New First Reader which was a parody of primers, and with decided influences of Denslow in his illustration style. By 1903 he was issuing humorous animal stories for children, and later established his own company, Ideal Book Builders in order to publish and distribute his "Moving-Picture" series featuring moveable books, with some authored by his wife Kathryn.