Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No. First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. First edition, 1917. Collection of easy-to-read tales from different cultures, identified by origin, and illustrated in black and white plus a color frontis. Light green cloth lettered in black with a color illustration mounted on the front cover, 129 pages. Light edgewear, slightly darkened spine, tiny transparent red spot at upper edge of front cover, good hinges, sound text block, very clean pages with two attractive old bird decals on the front pastedown, name in pencil dated 1917 on front free endpaper, no other markings. Very clean copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Verlag: New York: Dial Press,, 1935
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Illustrated Edition. Foolscap 4to (9.25 x 7.25 inches), pp. (12), (1-2), 3-341, (1), 8 color plates after paintings by Jessie Willcox Smith. Original gilt lettered green cloth with color plate mounted on the upper side, top edges orange. Near fine clean copy with light fade to spine, sheets and plates in fine, clean, unmarked condition. No owner names or inscriptions. H11000 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 2 to 5 days of cleared payment. The estimated shipping times and estimated arrival dates given in the listing are not provided by us and are usually wrong or very misleading. We do not pay for any foreign taxes or customs duties and have no information about them. These are the responsibility of the buyer. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
Verlag: The Dial Press, Inc., E-358, 1933
Anbieter: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Dial Press, Inc, New York, 1935. 265 pgs. Reprint. Slipcased with a red paper covered slipcase with color pastedown present to the front of the slipcase. Slipcase is chipped and worn with some pencil work present to the rear of the box. . DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (DJ is lightly chipped and worn). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. An anthology of stories of the four seasons by a variety of contributors, whose names appear in the contents. Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 May 3, 1935) was one of the most prominent female illustrators in the United States during the Golden Age of American illustration. She was a prolific contributor to respected books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier's, Leslie's Weekly, Harper's, McClure's, Scribners, and the Ladies' Home Journal. She had an ongoing relationship with Good Housekeeping, including the long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and creating all the covers from 1915 to 1933. Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.