Merle Johnson Comp (3 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. A first edition of this American history, beautifully illustrated by American artist Howard Pyle. A first edition account of stages of American history - divided into 'Coming of the English and the Dutch', 'The French Come Upon the Scene' and 'The Nation', which details the second war for independence. Bound in publisher's pictorial boards. Featuring a colour frontispiece, twenty-one further colour plates and one monochrome plate. These are in addition to numerous monochrome vignette and full-page illustrations throughout. Collated, complete. Richly decorated by American artist Howard Pyle. Bound in original quarter cloth. Externally, smart. Moderate closed tear and lifting to head. Moderate bumping to extremities. Moderate fading to spine. Book has a backwards lean. Moderate tide mark to front cover. Moderate tide marks to rear endpapers. Moderate warping to boards. Moderate spotting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Slight cockling to text block pp.336-rear endpapers. Moderate strain between p.92-3. Good. Howard Pyle (illustrator). book. …

Compiled by Merle Johnson. xviii, 247 pp. Pictured by Howard Pyle in black and white and color. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed boards with applied color illustration on front panel, in dust jacket and publisher's two-part box with printed paper label. Early edition; E-A on the copyright page. Bookplate tipped onto illustrated front free endpaper (slightly tanned except underneath the bookplate); a near fine, unworn copy in a near fine jacket. 5" loss to one side of the box, which otherwise shows only light wear. …

Compiled by Merle Johnson. xvii, 247 pp. Pictured by Howard Pyle in black and white and color. Folio, publisher's full morocco. First edition; the date code indicates that this was printed a month later than the copies printed on vellum. 1921 ink gift inscription on front free endpaper; very slight scuffing and use to binding; some scattered light stains to a few text pages; very attractive.…