Larkin Mead (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Larkin G. Mead (illustrator). Illustrated Edition. Thomas Hughes wrote "School Days at Rugby" (by an Old Boy) in 1857. It was immediately popular, spawning in its wake an entire genre of English Boarding School novels. The novel is more widely known as "Tom Brown's School Days". Hughes wrote a sequel titled "Tom Brown at Oxford". The story is in large part based on Hughes's own recollections of Rugby, and the character of Tom Brown is thought to be based on Hughes's own brother, George Hughes. As with so many novels, the protagonist must deal with an enemy - in the case of Tom Brown, it was an upperclassman bully named Flashman. In the 20th century, George Macdonald Fraser wrote a series of adventure novels featuring as hero, the adult Flashman . "Tom Brown's School Days at Rugby" has been the basis for several film and television adaptations. The book is charmingly illustrated with line drawings by Larkin G. Mead, Jr., whose style is similar to that of Flaxman. TITLE : School Days at Rugby AUTHOR : "an Old Boy" (Thomas Hughes, 1822 - 1896) ILLUSTRATOR : Larkin G. Mead, Jr. IMPRINT : James R. Osgood and Company PLACE : Boston DATE : 1872 EDITION : Reprint PHYSICAL DETAILS : Trade hardcover; Contains 8 line illustrations, including frontispiece; 405 pages plus one page of author's list; approximately 4 1/2" x 7" (12mo); dull brownish-purple cloth with title, etc. lettered in gilt on spine and boards with decorative line borders stamped in blind; chocolate colored end-papers; publisher's device on title page CONDITION -- GOOD ONLY --This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted: Boards : Modest wear to edges, including soft bumps to corner tips; board surfaces display light rub and a slight bit of cloth ballooning - basically clean and presentable . Spine : Compression and fraying to extremities - cloth is sunned and gilt is somewhat dulled - else clean and presentable . Binding / Hinges : The book has been much read, and is considerably shaken, with a couple of signatures "standing proud" (jutting out) - and as well hinges are "cracked" - and while the general demeanor is somewhat tired, no leaves are detached - the entire affair mast be considered as fragile. Text-Block Edges : Weathered, darkened and foxed. End-Papers: A bit of surface rumple, else clean and unmarked . Interior : Foxed throughout, with various small spots and/or smudges of no real impact - basically clean and the illustrations present nicely. A previous owner's signature was written in India ink at the head of the title page (L. H. Hemenway).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket as Puiblished. From Designs By Larkin G. Mead (illustrator). Early Edition. Original brown stamped cloth with nice bright gilt lettering on spine and gilt top edge. Very nice condition - tight and clean. Contains part 1 & part 2. Part 1has 9 chapters and part 2 has 9 chapters. 405 total pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in publisher's decorated green cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. viii, 405 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm. Originally published in 1857 under title: Tom Brown's school days.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Mead, Larkin G. (illustrator). Ex-library copy, dark green cloth, ornate embossed design at center front and back and each corner of front, gilt very good with light rubbing on spine, 405 pages. Neat ink calligraphy--name and "Merry Christmas 1878" on second front end paper. Very slight surface wear to tips and spine edges and both long spine edges, lightly worn overall, only sign it is ex-library is light ink stamp at top pages' edge and library card on reverse of final end paper. Near Good.

Gebunden. Condition: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Larkin G. Mead, Jr. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Stated The Author's Edition. No DJ as issued. Original embossed boards, fraying to edges, damp stain first few pages.

Blindstamped Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Larkin G. Mead, Jr. (illustrator). 405pp., bound in original brown blind stamped decorated cloth, spine lettered in gilt with top edge gilt, illustrated from designs by Larkin G. Mead, Jr., top edge gilt, a beautiful copy with only minor shelf wear, light damp staining on lower margins of last few pages, a very handsome copy.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 440.

Two 4.25" x 6.5" cabinet cards of Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, dated 1887. One is identified in pencil as The Huntley House, Mechanic St., Shelburne Falls, Mass and the other says Shelburne Falls Village, Mass, 1887. One is stamped "Larkin G. Mead, Sedgwick Institute, Great Barrington, Mass." Mead was a well known sculptor. The photographs are in good overall condition.