John Lowell Pratt Editor (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: VG minus Dj. Full-color plates through-out. A large format book. VG plus no markings light wear in a used jacket that is still vg minus or a little better.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Classics Edition. Offered in many different bindings, this is the 'Classics Edition' bound in ivory panels with black leatherette spine lettered and decorated in gold.

Condition: Very Good. Unknown. Folio, hardcover, VG in edgeworn white pictorial dj with chips and tears at edges. Color Plates Reproduced from the Original Hand Colored Stone Prints by N. Currier and Currier & Ives. 256 pp. "Currier and Ives was an American printmaking firm headed by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895) and based in New York City. Currier worked as a printmaker first in the firm of Stodart & Currier, and then later as 'N. Currier' (1835-1856). Newspapers lacked photographs; but the public was interested in some source of pictures of recent news stories. In 1835, Currier produced the print 'Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O Ã-'clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives', which was moderately successful. In 1840, he produced 'Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat "Lexington" In Long Island Sound on Monday Eve, Jany 13th, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over 100 persons perished', which was very successful. Currier soon had a weekly insert in the New York Sun. In 1852, Currier hired his famous counterpart, James Ives, to be his accountant. Ives showed his value by modernizing the company's bookkeeping, reorganizing inventory and streamlining the print process. Currier quickly made Ives a full partner forming the famous firm, Currier & Ives. Currier and Ives described itself as 'Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures'. Their pictures were indeed hugely popular; "Trotting cracks on the snow" on cover. Introduction by A. K. Baragwanath, curator of prints for the Museum of the City of NY. Book.…

Folio 12 1/4" x 9 1/2". Black faux quarter leather and light cloth stamped in gilt. 5 raised bands on spine. "Classics Edition" at base of spine. 256 pages. Text and color print reproductions on a high quality bright paper. Over 200 full page reproductions of N. Currier and Currier & Ives lithographs. Endpages browned. Several faint fox spots just very first and last page. No jacket as issued. Very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Presumed First Edition.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. Box. Limited Edition. Limited Edition printed on special paper and bound in handcrafted leather by Brown & Bigelow Cover is white leather bound with illustrated photo imprinted onto leather. Limited edition, number 314 of 2,000 specially bound copies. Previous owner name signed in presentation section. Box is bumped, scuffed and separating on edges. Cover is slightly scuffed with gold gilt lettering. Pages are clean & tight. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Ex Libris.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Very Good/VG +. 256 pages. date ffrom ISBN, ink gift inscription dated 1990 to flyleaf. Dustjacket has light wear/slight nicks to spine-ends, upper edges and corners. Hardback binding has light surface marks, slight wear/slight creases to spine-ends. Excellent colour reproductions. Pages very clean and in nice condition. WEIGHS OVER 1.3 KG AND EXTRA POSTAGE WILL BE REQUIRED BUT ONLY AT COST.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slight soiling to the upper edge of the cover. Otherwise new.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Unknown.

Hardcover. 256 p. illus. (part col. ), col. map. 32 cm. Index. Introduction by A. K. Baragwanath, Curator of Printes, The Museum of the City of New York. The Color Plates were reproduced from the Original Hand Colored Stone Prints by N. Currier and Currier & Ives. CUrrier began his print publishing in 1834. Ives joined him in 1854. They developed an assembly line type process through which black and white lithographs pulled from stone were hand colored. The selection of prints for this book was made with the following criteria in mind: Important events in the history of the country, the social life of the times, the economic life of the times, life in the city, life in the country, and the quality of the art as reproduced. Good in fair dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has some wear, soiling, and large tear at front top spine. Presumed first edition/first printing thus.…