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Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company. P/NO DUSTJACKET. 1881. . Boards. Sm 4to., 31 pp., cover rubbed, bumped, frayed, chipped, hinges broken frayed page edges, page toning .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Pyle, Howard. Yankee Doodle, an Old Friend in a New Dress. Dodd, Mead & Co., 1881.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Hard cover published by Dodd, Mead and Co. in 1881. No dust jacket. Cover of spine is missing. Front and back covers are scuffed and stained, and are edge worn. Corners are worn and split, with some fraying. Some pages have some spotting or stains, and pages have some tanning around edges. Book is in acceptable condition. 31 pages, 1.2 lb.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 31 pages
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
PYLE, Howard. Yankee Doodle: An Old Friend in a New Dress. Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1881.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Quarto. [31]pp. Illustrated glazed paper-covered boards. Spine now perished, extremities worn, rear board very worn; charming endpapers printed with cattail pattern; contemporary owner's dated signature on verso of frontispiece, same owner's name rubber-stamped on same as well as on front free endpaper. A good but presentable of an uncommon title, Pyle's first commissioned book.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Pyle, Howard. Yankee Doodle; An Old Friend In A New Dress. New York: Dodd Mead, 1881, 1881.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Author's first book. Includes 8 full-page colour illustrations and every few lines of text is accompanied by a full-page illustration in blue. Tastefully rebound in full green cloth with the title stamped in gilt on the spine. Minor foxing to text, one 3 inch closed tear has been professionally repaired, otherwise very good.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
. Yankee Doodle: An Old Friend in a New Dress. Dodd, Mead and Co, New York, 1881.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 1881 1st edition of Howard Pyle's very first illustrations in book form. A well-preserved, VG copy. Bright and clean and still tightly-bound. Professionally and subtly rebacked along the spine, not affecting the original pictorial front and back panels whatsoever. Quarto, 31 pgs. Lavish full-color illustrations, vivid and bright and well-executed.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Pyle, Howard (illus). Yankee Doodle:. An Old Friend in a New Dress. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1881.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Hardcover. Howard Pyle's first illustrated book. Noted flaws notwithstanding, this is a rather handsome copy of the very scarce and very fragile first edition of this American classic. Moderate shelf/edge wear (tips through), very minor rubbing to paper boards, minor toning at edges of boards, small scratch at rear board, water stain at upper fore-edge of text block (largely subtle and non-intrusive), two pages show small clip at bottom edge of leaf, very minor sporadic spotting (not foxed), archival repairs include added inner endpages (rear fixed to rfep), joints of two leaves professionally reinforced, brown booktape reinforcing both joints at endpages, likely rebacked, else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, red cloth spine, black ink lettering and decorative elements, red and black ink lettering and decorative elements on cloth-backed pale blue paper boards, decorative endpages, frontispiece. 4to. 31pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Good+/Very Good-. No DJ as Issued.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Pyle, Howard. YANKEE DOODLE. Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, 1881.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Uncommonly nice copy of the first edition of Pyle's first commissioned book, with Pyle's own bookplate. This copy contains Pyle's bookplate on the front pastedown, although individual examples of his bookplate are known to have circulated via his widow after Pyle's death. A poorly produced book, Pyle's first book commission rarely survives today in collectible condition. Already scarce, copies on the market tend to appear with significant condition flaws. This is among the cleaner copies we have handled. 10'' x 9.25''. Original pictorial boards. Patterned endpapers. Illustrated by Pyle with 8 full-page color illustrations and extensive images in blue alongside text. 31, [1] pages. Illustrated bookplate reading "ITA PRIMO ITA SEMPER / EX LIBRIS HOWARD PYLE" (matching examples at University of Delaware and the Brandywine Museum of Art) on front pastedown. Ink presentation inscription to front fly leaf. Boards with wear at corners and particularly spine, with a small dampstain spot near spine head, light soiling. Hinges firm, no repairs, interior clean.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.