Currier Ives Printmakers to the American People

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran, & Co, Garden City, NY, no dated, c.1942., 1942. Hardcover lacking dust jacket. Condition: Good. States Special Edition. 9 1/8" x 12 1/4" tall. 41 pages of text and then 192 plates, 32 in color. Gray decorated cloth with color art print pasted on front cover, black ink block with gold lettering and borders on spine, Square, solid, copy with book plate on front endpaper, clean, off-white pages, rubbing on the front cover art print, brownish stain on bottom edge of both covers, small crease and frays on cover corners. This book is exactly the same as another book in my inventory except for gray instead of beige front endpaper and a front and rear free endpaper have been added. The previous owner has pasted one art type sticker on the front free endpaper, 9 stickers one side and 12 stickers on the other side of rear free endpaper, a large piece of text paper with two pasted on stickers has been taped to rear endpaper, the tape has browned. These stickers do not belong to this book and downgrade the book from Good+. Seller Inventory # artb12782

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, NY, no date, c.1942., 1942. Condition: Good+. States Special Edition. Reprint. 9 1/8" x 12 1/4" tall. 41 pages of text and then 192 plates, 32 in color. Gray decorated cloth with color art print pasted on front cover, black ink block with gold lettering and borders on spine. Square, solid, unmarked copy with tanning on otherwise beige color endpapers, text is clean, off-white, small brownish foxing spots on at least three pages, rubbing on both covers, spine is sunned, light frays to bottom cover corners. Hardcover lacking dust jacket. 2 slips of paper about Currier & Ives, probably flaps cut from the dust jacket, are laid in. Neither flap has a price. Seller Inventory # artb12781

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1942, 4to, xvi, 41pp, plus 192 plates. Previous owners' name and bookplate on front pastedown, light wear, else VG. Paraphrasing from the first chapter: For more than fifty years Currier & Ives combined artistic talent, skilled craftsmanship, and merchandising acumen with the keenest news sense of the day. It revealed the tremendous sales potentialities of newsworthy pictures at a time when the various processes now in common use for the swift and accurate reproduction of drawings and photographs were mostly unknown. A heavy volume; will require additional shipping charges. Seller Inventory # 00087

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1942. Large Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Very good in fair jacket. Jacket toned with several small chips and tears along edges, light stain on jacket spine. 1942 Large Hardcover. xvi, 192 pp. 12 x 9. Color plate on front cover, color and black-and-white plates throughout. "Currier and Ives was a printmaking firm headed by Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824-1895). Currier first worked as a printmaker in the firm of Stodart & Currier, and then later as N. Currier (1835-1856). Newspapers did not have pictures. Therefore, the public was interested in some source for pictures of recent newsworthy events. In 1835, Currier produced the print, "Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O. Seller Inventory # 2308643

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY, U.S.A., 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st. 7 pages of Currier prints from Woman's Day included loose. Seller's image, know what you are getting! Pre-packing weight is 2 lb. 12.3 oz . ORIGINAL, !! Has NO Dust Jacket. NOTE!! Gild printing on spine is almost completely gone. Has slight warp to volume covers which may just be my bringing it in from a long storage period in the cold so it will get wrapped to equalize the moisture content, wear and soil to covers noted. Owner markings on Front End Paper noted! See Picture! The Copyright date is 1942 for this 1943 Printing. This volume was purchased through Local public auction. 42 pages + 192 plates. EXTRA MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING WOULD BE REQUIRED BUT WILL NOT BE COLLECTED AS $1.00 OF PRICE IS FOR EXTRA POSTAGE! So it will ship at the One Book rate. Please consider this when comparing pricing! Thank you for your purchase from Sunset Books! Help Promote World Literacy, GIVE a Book as a GIFT!! In stock, Ships from Ohio. Will not fit in Flat Rate Priority Mail envelope. USPS Variable Rate applies for Domestic or International. WE COMBINE SHIPPING ON MULTIPLE PURCHASES!!!! SEE PICTURES!!!!! ANY ODD/GREEN TONES ON THE SCANS ARE CAUSED BY MY SCANNER!! All of our Technical/Textbook/Ex-Library volumes were obtained legally through Public or Auction sales. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 027723

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Type: Hardback Large Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition. No Jacket. 192 Plates, some in full color. Frontis: 2 Plates in full color. This special edition of Currier & Ives is set in 12 PT. Caslon Monotype with hand-drawn decorative initials. The design and typography is by A. P. Tedesco. Short pieces (41 pages) on Colored Engravings for the People, Mr. Currier and Mrs. Currier. Prints at Six Cents Apiece Wholesale, and The Artists, followed by 192 Plates. The book is bound in blue decorated cloth with paper illustration affixed to front, clean,tight & solid, with light wear to corners. Inscription from former owner on endpaper. Very solid volume. Pages: xvi+ 41+ Unpaginated Plates. 9 x 12 inches. 1942, Doubleday, Doran & Co, Garden City, New York, USA. Seller Inventory # 024788

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 9 x 12, about 250 pgs, 192 b&w and color plates. An interesting history of this printing company which includes lots of plates of their classic works. Ex-library with the usual markings. Seller Inventory # 28161

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co, Garden City, NY, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. darkening to spine, toning to endpapers, dust jacket with large chip at head of spine, chips to top edge of front and back panels. With illustrations on 192 plates, 32 of which are in color. Seller Inventory # 11993

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Fair DJ. 9 x 12, about 250 pgs, 192 b&w and color plates. An interesting history of this printing company which includes lots of plates of their classic works. Seller Inventory # 2030

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Random brown spotting and paper part of front interior hinge cracking. Random staining with faded stained spine. See pictures. Seller Inventory # 1184

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, NY, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Special Edition. Quarto. Edges faintly dampstained, cloth soiled and age-toned, spine cocked, a good only copy lacking the dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 413938

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran, & Co., Garden City, New York, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No writing or marks. Cover is sharp but soiled. Seller Inventory # ART005

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book is very good inside and out with light handling and light perimeter wear. Jacket is fair with multiple edge tears and staining and wear. See pictures for further description. Seller Inventory # 2883

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About this Item: ZEESE-WILKERSON, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Good. 191 PLATES. BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION. SHELF WEAR ON CORNERS. FORMER OWNERS NAME, ETC ON INSIDE BOARD. STRING BINDING. SOME BROWNING ON PAGES. 3 LB SHIPPING WEIGHT. SEE IMAGES. Seller Inventory # 000371

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About this Item: Doublrday, Doran & Co., N. Y., 1942. Pictorial Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. Illustrated (illustrator). Special Edition. pictorial cloth hard cover is in good plus condition with mild rub to corners and head and tail of spine with no dust jacket. has 192 plates. This special edition is set in 12 pt. caslon monotype with hand drawn decorative initials. 41 pages plus plates. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 001041

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Discoloration to pages but text is clean without any markings, discoloration to DJ covers, DJ shows some wear along the edges and the spine. THIS IS A HEAVY AND OVERSIZE ITEM. INTERNATIONAL AND PRIORITY ORDERS MIGHT REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES. Seller Inventory # 104718

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1942. First Edition., 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Date MCMXLII on title page. Decorated cloth with tipped on color plate, 9 1/4 X 12 inches, 41 pages of text + 192 full page color and sepia colored plates. "This special edition of Currier & Ives is set in 12 pt. Caslon Monotype with hand-drawn decorative initials. The design and Typography is by A.P. Tedesco and the book has been produced by Zeese-Wilkinson Company, Inc. and H. Wolff Book Manufacturing Company". Internally fine, the spine is chipped and faded. See photos. Seller Inventory # bkrmartcurrier2

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About this Item: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran, 1942. Special edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 41 p., 192 p. of plates : ill., facsims. ; 31 cm. Subjects; Currier & Ives. Lithography, American 19th century. 2 Kg. Seller Inventory # 246867

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran, & Co., Garden City, New York, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Owner's name inside cover. Slight shelf wear on corners, end of spine, DJ is frayed around edges and soiled. Seller Inventory # ART004

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran and Co. Inc, Garden City, NY, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Unclipped dust jacket torn. Decorative front cover. Gilt title on spine. Collection of beautiful artwork. Great gift for the holidays!. Seller Inventory # 100364

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City, NY, 1942. Condition: Good. Stofomslag gescheurd, geplakt met plakband aan binnenzijde; Slijtage stofomslag. Seller Inventory # 085908

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About this Item: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. First Edition. Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi pages, 2 leaves, 41 pages : 192 plates (some color ; including frontispiece, portraits, facsimiles) on 96 leaves ; 31 x 24 cm. Contents; I. Colored engravings for the people -- II. Mr. Currier and Mr. Ives -- III. Prints at six cents apiece wholesale -- IV. The artists -- Louis Maurer -- Thomas Worth -- Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait -- Fanny Palmer -- George Henry Durrie -- Charles Parsons -- V. The prints -- Views -- Political cartoons and banners -- Portraits -- Historical prints -- Certificates, moral and religious prints -- Sentimental prints -- Prints for children -- Country and pioneer home scenes -- Humor -- Lithographed sheet music -- Mississippi River prints -- Railroad prints -- Emancipation, speculation -- Horse prints -- Sporting events. Subjects; Currier, Nathaniel (1813-1888). Currier & Ives (Printmakers). Currier and Ives (Firm). Lithography, American. Lithography 19th century United States. United States ; Pictorial works. Genre; Illustrated. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 284073

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co, New York, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 41 pp. text; 192 plates, 32 in color. First Edition, as such. Publisher's beige cloth, decorated in light blue/gray, with a pictorial pastedown. Previous owners book label. Dust jacket has some chips. See picture. Book. Seller Inventory # pe.1093

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About this Item: Doubleday Doran & Co Inc, Garden City, NY, 1942. Hardback. Condition: Good. Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People by Harry T Peters. Published by Doubleday Doran & Co Inc, Garden City, NY, 1942. Special Edition. Hardbound, no DJ. Folio (up to 15'' tall). Condition: Good. Discarded Library Book. Title block on front cover scratched, spine & corners frayed, overall content excellent. 240 Pgs. Printmakers to the American People. 300 prints. Description text copyright 2006 BooksForComfort. Item ID 12018. book. Seller Inventory # 12018

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1942. hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Special Edition. hardback, quarto, measuring 12 1/4" x 9 1/42, pictorial boards rubbed to extremities an with marking and discolouration, mild spotting to closed page edges, upper hinge cracked, the pages have browned a little but the text is clean and unmarked, illustrated throughout in colour and monochrome. Special edition of 1942. Seller Inventory # 234866

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About this Item: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran, 1942. Special edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked decorated cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xvi, 41 p., 192 p. of plates : ill., facsims. ; 31 cm. Subjects; Currier & Ives. Lithography, American 19th century. 2 Kg. Seller Inventory # 246867

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co', Inc, New York, 1942. Special Edition. 310mm x 220mm (12" x 9"). 41pp, + 192 plates. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Cover lightly rubbed Blue hardback cloth cover with laid on illustration. Seller Inventory # g7497

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About this Item: Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Cover has very little shelf wear - some minor foxing. Book. Seller Inventory # T0001287

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About this Item: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1942. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Special Edition. Measures 9 in. x 12 in. Decorative cloth with paste-on pictorial label on front panel. Profusely illustrated. The book shows age-related tanning and some fading to the spine. The DJ is split along the front hinge and shows chips, dusting, and wear. (The scan is of the book, not the DJ.) Weighs 3 ¾ lbs. Postage may be extra on this item. Seller Inventory # ABE-4066014063

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