The Adventures of an Illustrator: Mostly in Following His Authors in America & Europe by Pennell, Joseph - 1925

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. HC. very good, tan cloth (hardcover) (no dustjacket). B&W illustrations. No dustjacket. 372pp.

Little Brown & Co. First Edition; First Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good-/None. First Trade Edition (preceded by a limited edition). Cloth has some smudges and wear, especially at edges of spine.

Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1925. 1925, 372pp, illus., illus. eps, gilt letterins to cover & spine, slight soiling & shelfwear to cover, light soiling to pg edges, no dj, contents clean.. First Trade. Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1925. First Impression of the Trade Edition. Hardbound. VG, no dj or case. Yellowish gold coarse woven cloth with gilt embossed title on spine and front cover, in brown paper, printed dust jacket. xxii, 372 pp., profusely illustrated in bw. A very nice copy of this book. Begins with his birth and goes forward fairly rapidly until his professional life and adult activities begin.

Boston, Little, Brown, 1925.. 1st trade edition. Cloth, 372 pp., illustrated with full-page plates. Some light browning to the text, bookplate, cloth rubbed at the head and heel of the spine, otherwise a very good copy.

New York, New York: The Anderson Galleries, 1925. Hardbound. Good, Ex-library, pages crisp, binding tight.. Burgundy textured cloth on boards with gilt spine lettering and cover decoration, binder's cloth inside front hinge, frontispiece, [xx] [24] 10 bw plates. Glue from label on spine, stamp on title page, ex-libris inside cover, envelope, labels and markings inside of back cover, perforation stamp in several pages. Frayed spine at top and bottom, light fraying of hinge, cover edges. From the essay by the author and illustrator: "This exhibition is held for the purpose of showing - now that American Illustration is almost a lost art... - how illustrated books, magazines and papers in a few cases are, and once were all made." Ten illustrations from the author's many travels appear in the book including scenes in: Germantown and Wilkesbarre, PA; on the Mississippi River; Florence Italy; Rome; Panama and Spain.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1925. First Impression of the Trade Edition. Hardbound. VG+/VG dustjacket in original slipcase, no Broadart as in picture.. Yellowish gold coarse woven cloth with gilt embossed title on spine and front cover, in brown paper, printed dust jacket. xxii, 372 pp., profusely illustrated in bw. A very nice copy of this book. Begins with his birth and goes forward fairly rapidly until his professional life and adult activities begin.

London: Fisher Unwin, 1925. First impression of trade edition. 4to, pp. 372. Index. Copiously illustrated in black and white; color frontis. Red cloth, stamped in gilt.Ex library, with stamps and bookplates. VG clean copy.

New York: Anderson Galleries, 1925. Soft Cover. Very Good. Anderson Galleries,1925. 'Together with works in oils, watercolors, etching, lithography, by the artists shown at the Anderson Galleries, December four to twenty, 1925'. Soft Cover. Blue paper cover, as available in the gallery at the exhibition. Cover has very slight shelwear, extremely minor foxing around edges. Pages are clean and unmarked, slightly toned. Tightly bound. Beautiful condition. Includes a complete listing of all the works at the exhibition and 10 full-page plates.

1925. PENNELL, Joseph. THE ADVENTURES OF AN ILLUSTRATOR mostly in following his authors in America & Europe. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925. 4to., tan cloth; many illustrations. First trade edition. Soiling at boards; slight wear to extremes; spots of foxing at endpapers. Very good.