Silver Hand by Pyle Howard, First Edition (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

xiii, 170 [2] pp. Written and Illustrated by Howard Pyle. 8vo, publisher's blue cloth stamped in silver and black. First edition. Spine sunned with light use to cloth; tight and sound. This was Ruth Gordon and Garson Kainin's copy, with their bookplate (which is damaged at the edges). It was the gift of American dramatist Edward Sheldon, whose Christmas gift message, signed, is clipped to the front free endpaper.

Col.ill.bds. 170pp. b/w ills. Very good copy. 1st Dover ed. This original paperback copy has been rebound in boards by L. J. Cullen Bookbinders. This was American author & illustrator Howard Pyle's first novel. Set in the middle ages, it tells the story of Otto, the son of a German robber baron, who is sent away to be raised in a monastery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition thus first printing. Not dated but has 9 digit SBN code so would have been printed 1965-1970. Hardback book is tight clean and square. Boards clean, with bump to top edge, some rubbing to corners and spine ends. Spine slightly sunned. Text block clean, with light toning to edges. The pages are crisp and unblemished. Feels gently read. Very good condition. No jacket as issued. For grading accuracy books are photographed without a protective book cover. Note we do not use stock images, the book pictured is the book described. A very good square example of this title, a very nicely printed volume. The 25 intricate Pyle B&W woodcut-esque illustrations are reproduced mostly full page, with additional headpieces. This is described as the "large print" edition by the publisher, and appears to have been done as a stylistic choice. An uncommon printing in the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Spine re-backed with binder's tape. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, edgewear, fading. Loose hinges. Pages tanned with scattered foxing. Pyle's first book. Set in 13th-century Germany, this is one of the first historical children's novels written by an American.

Hardcover. First Edition Thus; Early Printing. Very Good+ in boards. Light foxing on top text block edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Quarter maroon cloth cover with illustrated green cloth boards has a chip to the upper corner of front cover, spine has been reinforced with early matching buckram cloth, and general wear and light soiling. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Antiquated gift inscription on front end sheet to Orville B. Babcock. On the title page is the embossment of another owner of the book, Joseph A. Sadony. Pages are lightly toned with light sparse thumbing but in very good condition. Illustrated in b&w with headpieces, tailpieces, and frontispiece plus 24 plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good - Fine condition. Pyle, Howard (illustrator). First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888. An ideal candidate for rebacking as the spine cover is the only problem. A classic, well worth restoring. Much of the original leather spine remains (for reuse) although "Otto" has perished from the top as has a piece at the heel. SEE PHOTOS. Internal condition is FINE. NO foxing. Brief gift note on a preliminary blank page. All other pages are creamy white, clean and unmarked. Written and illustrated by Howard Pyle, with tissue-guarded frontispiece "In the Belfry." According to Morse & Brinckle, the book has 26 [not 24] full-page b/w plates, 36 decorations, 16 initials, for a total of 78 illustrations by Howard Pyle -- none previously published. The publisher's catalogue at the end reprints 5 other Pyle illustrations. This is the publisher's original half leather and green cloth binding, as advertised ("royal 8vo, half leather, $2.00") on this book's final page of ads. SEE PHOTOS. The front cover is elaborately and beautifully decorated in bright gold, black, red and gray. There is NONE of the usual cover fading. Brown coated end papers. Inner hinges are PERFECT. SEE PHOTO #8. 7" wide by 9" tall. Otto of the Silver Hand "was and is one of Pyle's great children's books." -- Pitz (p. 57). "It is the first and best of three historical tales intended for children." -- Pitz (p. 82). "[A] deeply moving story without a hint of preachiness," -- Pitz (p. 84). In Pitz's HOWARD PYLE (1975) there are more than a dozen Otto of the Silver Hand illustrations reproduced. BAL 16384. Morse & Brinckle pp.126-129. First Edition. Hardcover. Good - Fine condition. Illus. by Pyle, Howard. 173pp. + 16 pages of ads. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Illustrations by the author. (illustrator). First UK edition. First UK edition. 8vo. Original pictorial teal cloth decorated in black, silver and gold. Set in Germany, Otto of the Silver Hand was one of the first historical novels written for children by an American, influencing many later historical novels for children. Contemporary gift inscriptions to front endpaper; cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at edges, but overall a very good copy. Book.

First Edition. OTTO OF THE SILVER HAND, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888, first edition, front and rear inner gutters show some wear, rebacked with a leather spine retaining most of the original pictorial cloth covers with wear to the fore edges, else a good to very good copy. Illustrated by Howard Pyle.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. BAL 16384. Frontispiece "In the Belfry" and 24 full-page b/w plates as well as numerous text vignettes by Pyle. 16, ads. 8vo. Original half leather and green cloth binding (advertised on p. 16 of ads at $2.00. Gilt and red lettered green pictorial cloth. Spine/backing replaced. VG+/NF with wear tips. Cloth has 1/4" split at lower rear tip.

First edition. Pyle, Howard. First edition. Written and illustrated by Pyle, with a frontispiece "In the Belfry" and 24 full-page b/w plates as well as numerous text vignettes by Pyle. xiii, [i],170, [4], [16, ads]pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's half leather and green cloth binding (advertised on p. 16 of ads at $2.00. Fine Written and illustrated by Pyle, with a frontispiece "In the Belfry" and 24 full-page b/w plates as well as numerous text vignettes by Pyle. xiii, [i],170, [4], [16, ads]pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Otto of the Silver Hand. Howard Pyle. [1888] first edition; Scribner's; quarter leather hardcover with slipcase very good or better antiquarian condition. This is a remarkably scarce illustrated first edition with crisp gold text on spine and front board. Only very light general handling wear, rubbing, edgewear; some handling wear to flyleaf; bookplate and very small label on pastedown. Title page is a bit precarious, with tissue guard in place as issued. Tight/square; truly exceptional. Brown slipcase is good to very good with normal rubbing, toning, light handling wear. What a volume for the fine private library.