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Howard Pyle

Howard Pyle's Book of the American Spirit Signed First Edition

Harper & Brothers

1923

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Description

Signed limited first edition, one of 50 numbered copies signed by Johnson and Dowd.

  • Illustrated by Howard Pyle (American).
  • Compiled by Merle Johnson.
  • Edited by Francis J. Dowd.
  • New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923.
  • xviii, 346 pages.
  • Illustrated by Pyle with 22 beautiful tipped-in color plates plus a profusion of black-and-white images.
  • Signed by Johnson and Dowd on limitation page.
  • This copy with a previously unpublished mounted illustration of a pirate by Pyle, made available by Frank Schoonover for this edition.
  • Original quarter white cloth, brown paper boards with pictorial paste-on, top edge and fore-edge uncut.

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Bottom margin of title wrinkled from bookplate pasted onto its verso (the copyright page).

Minor signs of age and handling.

Dimensions

Height: 12.5 inches / 31.75 cm
Width: 9.5 inches / 24.13 cm

Feature(s)

Signed, First Edition

Language

English

Subject

Travel and Exploration, Illustrated, American History, Americana, Modern first editions, History

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