Search Results: by salt marshes by dow arthur wesley

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

(Ipswich, MA): Privately Printed , 1908. One of my favorite old-time customers was artist Leonard Baskin. Every time he'd see me, he'd ask if I'd found him a copy of Arthur Wesley Dow's "By Salt Marshes?" He reckoned that, since I lived near those very marshes, I might find a copy at a yard sale for $5 and sell it to him for $10. But even back then we both knew it was a book of legendary rarity. Dow's multiple-woodblock illustrations evoke Japanese design elements, techniques for the printing of which Dow invented himself and incorporated into this work. The seven color prints in this book illustrate the poetry of his lifelong friend Everett Hubbard. The book, hand printed by Dow, was issued in an edition of about 200 copies, of which this is #86, noted by Dow in pencil on the half title, which also includes a pencil inscription by him. Bound as issued in cloth over boards, front board illustrated with woodblock printing and image by Dow. Front cover tanned at edges, contents in fine condition. Dow… Read More

1908. DOW, Arthur Wesley & Everett Stanley HUBBARD. BY SALT MARSHES: PICTURES AND POEMS OF OLD IPSWICH. Ipswich: Privately printed, 1908. No. 103 of approximately 200. [32] pp. 8vo. Quarter brown cloth (unmarked) with color illustrated (front cover only) paper covered boards. Covers worn but still attractive; interior near fine, small pencil numerals to front pastedown. Eight lovely color woodblock illustrations, with other monochrome and two color designs/headpieces. "BY SALT MARSHES is Arthur Wesley Dow's tribute to the old North Shore town of Ipswich, where he was born and spent most of his life, and to his boyhood friend, Everett Stanley Hubbard. It is a collaboration somewhat in the spirit of Meteyard, Carman and Hovey in their Vagabondia books, though Hubbard was undoubtedly a lesser poet and Dow a greater artist. BY SALT MARSHES is his masterpiece, and it is evident from the numerous sketches and proofs in the Ipswich Historical Society and the Society for Preservation of New England… Read More

Privately printed., 1908. Limited Edition Number 36. . Hardcover. . Moderate wear to extremities, pages and boards tanned. else very good condition. /No dust jacket, as issued. No Box.. Color Illustrations Book is as described - all defects and marks are noted. A very nice copy.

1908. Dow, Arthur Wesley. (Dow, Arthur Wesley)illus. BY SALT MARSHES: PICTURES AND POEMS OF OLD IPSWICH by Everett Stanley Hubbard. (Artists of the Book in Boston, #74). Ipswich, MA. 1908, Privately printed. From the edition of about 200. 8vo., cloth backed boards, illustrated with seven color woodblock prints, plus a woodblock illustration on the cover, a woodblock headpiece on the first page, small vignettes in-text, and pictorial endpapers, all by Dow. A Fine copy of this now rare book.From Finlay, "Artists of the Book in Boston, 1890-1910;" Cambridge, 1985: BY SALT MARSHES is Arthur Wesley Dow's tribute to the old North Shore town of Ipswich, where he was born and spent most of his life, and to his boyhood friend, Everett Stanley Hubbard...[It is Dow's] masterpiece, and it is evident from the numberous sketches proofs in the Ipswich Historical Society and [SPNEA] - some of them dating back to 1895 - that it was a labor of love. Infinite care and craftsmanship were expended on every detail. The… Read More