August derleth dwig illustrator (4 resultados)

Pictorial Boards. Condición: Very Good binding. 8vo; bound in printed paper over boards; a lovely copy of what must be a very fragile book; contents are clean and binding is sound; bit of expected shelfwear to the extremities, but quite a nice copy, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good binding. Likely the First (and probably only) Edition. Dwig (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First edition. SIGNED. 107 pp. Duodecimo. Beige cloth over boards. Title and illustrations printed in blue on spine and front board. Mild scuffing to extremities. Ex-library, with ex-libris sticker affixed to front pastedown. In a toned dust jacket, with a small loss near the head of spine. Inscribed by illustrator Dwig to prior owner, Paul Bransom. Bransom was a wildlife artist and cartoonist, known for his work in The Saturday Evening Post. Dwig was a prolific cartoonist, active from 1897-1942. His longest-running strip was "Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.". Dwig [Clare Victor Dwiggins] (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY BOTH, INNER DJ Flap $2 Foxed, DWIG ALSO DREW Pencil Drawing & Signed, Endpapers have Tape Residue & Ink Note ,HBDJ, (1948). FIRST EDITION, VG/VG-, SIGNED W/Drawing. Ink initial on upper front free endpaper, large pencil drawing below of a girl's face captioned "Ophelii" and below, "Love To You - Dwig." August Derleth signs below that in blue pencil. 12mo. 107 pages, light gray cloth stamped in dark blue. Cloth in near fine condition, cello tape stains on both free endpapers from glassine dj once taped over the printed dustjacket. Two interior pages damaged, one with small hole at top affecting few letters of text, and the paper residue from that hole still adhered to the opposite page on small portion of the illustration. Jacket moderately worn, spine panel toned, inch tear to upper front cover panel, tear across top of spine panel, few other tiny tears and slight fraying, tape stains on front flap, price intact. 107 PGS, DJ SPINE END CHIPS. Signed by Author(s).…

First editions of all three titles. Small octavo. Illustrated. All three in very good unclipped dust jackets. Small chip to upper margin of Bill's Diary. A fine assemblage.Derleth was an author in many veins but is best remembered today as the Arkham House founder, the chief promoter of H. P. Lovecraft. Clare Victor Dwiggins was an American cartoonist who signed his work Dwig. Dwiggins created a number of comic strips and single-panel cartoons for various American newspapers and newspaper syndicates from 1897 until 1945, including his best-known strip, the long-running School Days (which appeared under a number of different titles). …