Search Results: Illustrated Books from Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA

[New York: Privately Printed by the De Vinne Press], 1887. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Royal Octavo. xvi, 300 pp. Limited edition, numbered 189, inscribed and dated, "Jan. 1888" by Francis on a preliminary blank. Green cloth with title in gold on the spine; top edge gilt; fore- and bottom-edge left deckled; rubbing to the extremities including light fraying at the spine ends and corners; hinges a little loose; contents clean but for some occasional offsetting from some leaves that were laid in (only a few instances). An account of an around the world tour in 1875-1876 compiled from Francis's letters. Illustrated by 24 printed reproductions from photographs with a nearly half of them relating to South Asia. Smith F60.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company | printed by the Ballantyne Press, 1913. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Octavo. viii, 292; x, 292 pp., plates. As issued, in elaborately decorative cloth. Light shelfwear, only, including some very light silverfishing to the covers of Volume II. Contemporary gift inscription on the front free endpaper over both volumes. A very attractive set with nearly 4 dozen illustrations reproducing works by various artists, each with a printed tissue guard, all present as called for.

Edinbugh: Joanna Robson, 2019. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. 12 cm x 12 cm x 12 mm. Limited edition, number 22 of 30 copies signed by Robson. Four lastercut panels on black card stock between two boards in patterned cloth, with instruction tri-fold for displaying the artist's book in a cube or an accordion, all housed in a signed and numbered tray and sleeve. A very nice, clean copy with limited, if any, shelfwear. Of the book, Robson writes: "'Vasilisa and the Witch's Fire' depicts a scene from the Russian fairytale Vasilisa the Beautiful, a story that sees its heroine Vasilisa overcome the obstacles put before her by the witch Baba Yaga. . . . The lasercut booklet illustrates the heroine's escape home across the forest at night, armed with a mysterious glowing skull. It's an eerie tale that has not left my imagination since I read the tale as a child." A remarkable artist's book.

The Jargon Society, 1971. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Small quarto. [48] pp. First Edition, signed by Meyers on the title page. Full cloth binding with pictorial dust jacket and printed mylar cover. A very nice copy with light wear and both parts of the dust jacket are present and sharp.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Folio. 216 pp., illus. First printing. In original pictorial boards with dust jacket. A bright, fresh copy in a lightly shelfworn dust jacket with minor wear at the head of the spine. Very Good or better. This is a quite presentable copy of this collection.

Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1854. Original Wrappers. near Very Good binding. 4" x 2.5." 16 pp., illus. As issued, sewn into original printed wrappers. Closed tear to the top edge of the front wrapper at the spine with transparent tape mend to the verso; light and scattered toning throughout. A charming book filled with wood-engravings--50 in fact. all pages with full border. the pages range from full page illustrations to in one instance a page with almost 20 engravings, each engraving with caption. While the book is undated, the cataloguer at the American Antiquarian Society notes that Merrill published under his own name between 1843 and 1854. OCLC locate only the one institutional holding at the AAS. Rare. OCLC: 724288351.

Jerome, AZ: The M Kimberly Press, 1994. Original Wrappers. Very Good+ binding. Octavo. [24] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 36 of 100 copies, signed by Blocker. As issued, sewn into printed wrappers. Printed in black with a marching ant motif in brown across the bottom margin of each page. A playful book with humorous anecdotes to accompany the linocut illustrations of desert insects and reptiles. Blocker has been an educator and book artist for decades. A very fresh copy with little wear to speak of. (OCLC: 35782969).

[Providence, RI]: Printed by the Stone House Press for the John Carter Brown Library, 1992. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding. Octavo. 85, [1] pp., frontis, illus. Limited edition, number 42 of 200 copies, signed by De Pol, Smith, and the printer, M. A. Gelfand. In original cloth with title on the front cover and spine. An extremely nice copy with the top corner of the rear board a trifle bumped, else fine. This is the regular issue of a translation of Bertin's French-language three-act play, "Christophe Colomb," here limited to 200 copies with "illustrations printed in black . . . from works in the John Carter Brown Library, selected by Norman Fiering. . . . the original wood engravings printed in colors other than blank, are by John De Pol" (colophon). There was also a deluxe edition limited to 20 copies bound by Deborah Evetts, design binder and conservator at the Pierpont Morgan Library.

New York: The Colophon, Ltd, 1931. Hard Cover. Good binding. Quarto. Limited edition, one of 3000 copies. Bound as issued in printed paper over boards. Milne's etching is present. Lightly rubbed some wear to the joints, though it remains a solid copy; minor dampstaining to the top corner of the spine and boards, a stain that carries into the textblock, visible in the top, inner margin of most leaves including the Milne etching; library stamp at the top of the front free endpaper and title page being the only indication that this is ex-library. While Milne's signed, "Hilltop: A Drypoint in Two Colors" is what makes this such a collected issue of The Colophon, there is a wealth of material including but not limited to essays by Charles Chesnutt, A Edward Newton, and Frederick Goudy, as well as a bibliography of the illustrations of Rudolph Ruzicka by William A Kittredge.

New York: The Colophon, Ltd, 1931. Hard Cover. near Very Good binding. Quarto. Illus. Limited edition. Bound as issued in printed paper over boards, Ballantyne's striking linocut "Wood Nymphs" is present and in nice condition. Light soiling to the binding to the binding; early library stamp on the top of the title page and the top margin of two other leaves--no other indications that this is ex-library.

New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1865. Soft Cover. Good binding. 4.25" x 2.75." 16 pp., illus. Lacking original wrappers. Light soiling to the exterior. One of 12 chapbooks issued in the Appleton series, My Box of Books. A remarkably uncommon collection. This title with 7 full page, hand colored illustrations in addition to a hand colored vignette on the title page. Institutional holding are scant even of individual titles from this series. Scarce.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930. Vellum Binding. Very Good+ binding/near Good dust jacket. Folio. [10], 124 pp., frontis, illus. Limited edition, number 359 of 450 copies. Signed by Adams. As issued, in vellum-backed marbled paper boards with glassing jacket and box. The binding is very bright and well preserved; contents are clean; glassing wrapper is worn at the extremities, but for some minor chipping, it is largely complete. The lidded box, on the other hand, is in pieces and missing one of the rails; nevertheless, mostly present. It appears to have done its job in protecting the book. A beautifully reprinting of the text of the first edition of Walton's classic, possibly the highlight of fishing literature. The pages are graced with numerous black-and-white decorations in addition to a color frontispiece and nice scenes of gentlemen fishing done in elegantly muted shades of green, blue, and brown by American artist Frank Adams, known for his children's illustrations. A publisher-issued… Read More

New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1887. Original Wrappers. Very Good+ binding. Quarto. [16] pp., illus. As issued, in stapled self-wrappers. Light rubbing to the covers, but generally quite a bright copy with limited wear. 4 full-page chromolitholgraphic illustrations, 1 double-page chromolithograph, as well as the chromolithographic covers; the other eight pages each have two tone, in-text illustrations. A vibrant edition of this classic tale.

Akron, OH: Kohler & Co, 1900. Soft Cover. near Very Good binding. 12mo. [12] pp., illus. As issued, printed on felt and center sewn. Some pilling and rubbing to the covers, occasional crayoning to the contents but a fairly presentable copy of an uncommon felt book. While printed name of the illustrator is difficult to make out, what is visible comports with the illustrator of most if not all of Kohler's series--Carl Hurlbut. Each page depicts a different bird including Turkeys, Geese, Ducks, Guineas, Peafowl, Doves, Swan, Bantams, Pheasants, and an Ostrich. Printed in black, red, green, blue, yellow, and white. A charming and uncommon form of children's book.

New York: McLoughlin Bros, 1884. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. 12mo. [12] pp., illus. Stapled, as issued. Light wear, but largely well preserved; minor soiling throughout. A beautifully printed abecedary on sized linen. Covers printed in red, yellow, green, blue, and black. The contents are printed in black with red alphabet. A very nice example or a book printed on linen.

1885. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. [8] pp., illus. As issued, printed on linen. Light fraying to the edges, but largely well preserved. Light soiling and toning throughout, but a very presentable copy. It is difficult to tell as this Hoffmann's tale has been reprinted frequently, but it is possible that this copy is missing a wrapper that may have had publication information. Nevertheless, an an uncommon edition of Hoffmann's tale of a girl who played with matches, heedless of her cats' insistence that she shouldn't, "You'll burn to death, if you do so, / Your parents have forbid, you know." (Spoiler alert) Against all odds, her apron string catches and while her cats raise the alarm as best they can, poor Pauline is consumed in flames and in moments nothing but ash and her red shoes remains. While the tale has a strange charm(?), the charm of this multicolored printing on linen is something else entirely. The lyrics on the lower half of the page and a colored illustrations grace the top. Printed… Read More

Paris: Domino Press, 1931. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Folio. [16] pp., illus. First trade edition. As issued, backed in cloth with pictorial paper over boards. Some minor fraying to the spine ends and corners; contents are extremely bright and clean but for one minor spot of discoloration on the recto of the final leaf. An unusually nice copy of this, the first trade edition of the first book from Esther Averill and Lila Stanley's expatriate Domino Press, and the first English-language children's book illustrated by the Caldecott Medal-winning Russian-born artist Feodor Rojanovsky. Beautiful five-color lithographic illustrations throughout.

Roslyn, NY: Stone House Press, 1988. Original Wrappers. Near Fine binding. Octavo. 21, [3] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 108 of 135 copies. Signed by Stepanchev, DePol, and the designer and printer, M. A. Gelfand. As issued, sewn into heavy, printed wrappers. A bright, clean copy. DePol Catalogue Raisonne p. 60; Brody 88.3.

Harrisburg, PA: G. S. Peters, 1837. Original Wrappers. Good binding. 18mo. 18 leaves, illus. As issued, in original printed wrappers; printed only on one side of each leaf such that the book alternates between printed and then blank page-spreads. Wrappers rubbed with some creasing; contents a bit toned; two leaves with very small loss in the middle touching 2 words on one leaf and 4 on another. An attractive copy of a scarce book. Wrappers are a striking orange, calendared paper with border and title on the upper wrapper and bordered engraving of a soldier and civilian clasping hands on the lower. 15 additional half-page engravings printed in color above the text. An additional small vignette with color on the title page. Opposite the title and serving as a frontispiece of a sort is a fraktur alphabet in hornbook fashion. The American Antiquarian Society has this edition as well as an earlier edition printed in 1835. Also issued by Peters is an English edition with the same illustrations. In an… Read More

New York: Bruce Rogers & the Press of A. Colish, 1955. Full Leather. Near Fine binding. Folio. 364, [2] pp., illus. Limited edition, one of 300 copies, this one out of series. As issued in full brick-red leather with gilt fleur-de-lis at each corner; top edge gilt. In publisher issued slipcase. A beautiful copy with trivial rubbing in the center of the spine, in very nearly fine condition. Slipcase with some wear to the spine and separation starting at the back joints. It remains solid. This book was initially conceived of in 1902 when Rogers was working on the publication of Norton's translation at the Riverside Press. A page proof was set in Rogers's Montagine type but the with Norton's death the project was shelved. It resurfaced in the early 1930s when Rogers was working on his monumental lectern Bible, but again, Dante would be put aside. More than half a century after its conception, Rogers saw it to completion, the last major work designed by Rogers. An exquisitely designed and executed… Read More