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Published by Robert M. McBride and Company Ne, 1934
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Wear and dritness to the cover/ pages.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No. First Edition. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1934. First edition, 1934. Externally fair, internally very good. Series of charcoal sketches of heads and faces of famous persons of the time. Brown cloth, 12.5" tall, about a hundred pages. Covers heavily rubbed with fraying to the corners and spine ends, good hinges, sound text block, pages a bit age-yellowed but clean, name on front free endpaper. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. Folio - 12" - 15" Tall.
First edition; 4to.; cloth backed boards, hardcover; black and white sketched illustrations; endpapers are sunned else a very good clean, tight copy in edgeworn and sunned boards that have bumped corners.
Hardcover. Brown cloth. appx. 90 pp. 38+ large bw reproductions. This uncommon title consists of caricatures and drawings of 38 well-known public personages, artists, men of letters, etc. Includes Guy Pene du Bois, Diego Rivera, Kuniyoshi, Cortissoz, Sinclair Lewis, Roosevelt, etc. Lacks dustjacket, but a very nice copy. Good+, slight wear dustjacket present but has ripswith about 1 square inch missing from top of spine area.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011
ISBN 10: 1258047616ISBN 13: 9781258047610
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
Published by Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011
ISBN 10: 1258151138ISBN 13: 9781258151133
Seller: Lucky's Textbooks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
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Published by Robert M McBride and Co, 1934
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover with dustjacket, unpaginated; good condition; dj is heavily chipped at edges, darkened and stained; internally very good; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Published by Robert M. McBride, New York, 1934
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. By Author (illustrator). First Edition. Marginal tears of the DJ.Writing on the ffep.
Published by Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1934
Seller: Fallen Leaf Books, Nashville, IN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author at the top right corner of the front endpage. Corners lightly bumped, wear at the head and tail of the spine, jacket has been tape repaired along hte spine and has a large chip missing at the head of the spine, wear at the tail of spine and at the corners, not price clipped. . First Printing. Very Good. Author.
Published by Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1934
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. Quarto. In decorative dustjacket. Brown and gray fabric with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Author was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer. Bacon was known for her humorous and ironic etchings and drawings, as well as for her satirical caricatures of prominent personalities in the late 1920s and 1930s. During her time as a fellow she completed 35 satirical portraits of art world figures for a collection called?Off With Their Heads!, which was published that same year by?Robert M. McBride & Company. In 1942 she was granted an award from the?American Academy of Arts and Letters?and in 1980 the Academy awarded her a gold medal for her lifelong contribution to illustration and graphic art.?In 1947, Bacon was elected into the?National Academy of Design?as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1969. In December 1975, the National Collection of Fine Arts, now the?National Museum of American Art, honored Bacon with a yearlong retrospective exhibition titled, "Peggy Bacon: Personalities and Places. Coloured and black and white illustrations. Includes 50 portraits of Diego Rivera, FDR, Steiglitz, George Gershwin, Lillian Gish, Mayor La Guardia, Sinclair Lewis. Good in Near Fine dustjacket. Chipping, ripping, and soiling to dustjacket. Soiling to spine. Bumping to corners. Soiling to endpapers. Minor soiling to textblock, but textblock generally clean. Binding tight.
Published by New York: McBride., 1934
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Good. First edition. 4to. Two-color cloth in rare dust jacket, torn, without damage to text or image. Includes 50 portraits of Diego Rivera, FDR, Steiglitz, George Gershwin, Lillian Gish, Mayor La Guardia, Sinclair Lewis. See also: Peggy Bacon. A Checklist of the Prints.
Published by Robert McBridge, New York, 1934
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Signed
1 vols. 4to. Third printing. Bacon, Peggy. Third printing. 1 vols. 4to. SIGNED. Signed by Bacon on the flyleaf. A brilliant display of nearly fifty sketches of public figures, along with her sharp and funny verbal portraits. Original brown cloth, spine slighty soiled. In dust jacket iwht smal chip and minor soiling.
First edition from the library of Ira Gershwin with his posthumous bookplate. Brother George is one of the 50 caricatures included. Folio, original cloth with dust wrapper. Lower panel of wrapper detached, some other chips and light rubbing to wrapper. Browning to endpapers. Those caricatured include Geogia O'Keeffe, Alfred Stieglitz, Childe Hassam, Diego Rivera, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Art Young, Alexander Brook, Guy Pène du Bois, Sinclair Lewis, Djuna Barnes, Edmund Wilson, Heywood Broun, Carl Sandburg, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Gish, Fiorello La Guardia, Bill Robinson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, etc.
Published by Robert M. McBride & Company, New York, 1934
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: g. Peggy Bacon (illustrator). 4to. Unpaginated. 40 original sketches of distinguished faces including Diego Rivera, FDR, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Carl Sandburg. Inscribed by Bacon. Brown cloth binding w/gray cloth spine. Some foxing and discoloration to spine. Dj faded on spine and several sizeable pieces missing. Overall good condition, dj fair.
Published by Robert M. McBride & Co, New York, 1934
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
1 vols. 4to. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 4to. With an ALS from the Author. A collection of sketches of various people, with humorous descriptions. Laid in: ALS to "Mr. Wescott" from Peggy Bacon: "Thank you for your kind note. I am delighted that you enjoy "Off with Their Heads". And as for the title you suggest, it is so perfect, that I think I will certainly use it, and am all gratitude for the idea." Dated Jan. 16th 1935. Two-toned cloth. Minor wear to spine ends a corners, a little sunned, else very good.