frederick richardson illus (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Illustrated cloth cover shows minor wear, rubbing, soiling, and small tears on the corners and spine ends. Loose hinges, name of former owner in the prelims. Pages are tanned.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. lacking dj. illustrated cloth cover shows minor wear, rubbing, fading. pages with minor wear and smudges.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with gold lettering and designs. Minor rubbing to crown and foot of spine and corners; otherwise binding remarkably bright and sturdy. Gold topstain and deckled fore-edge and bottom edge. Title page dated 1908. Copyright page dated 1902. 150 pages. Black and white illustrations in the text with sepia plates and tissue guards throughout. Gutter slightly cracked at front; binding still tight. Pages lightly toned and clean throughout with no marks or tears. A very nice copy. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Small volume bound in blue cloth with gilt decoration. Top edge gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown; name on title page. No other markings. One illustration plate and its protective sheet are detached from binding but present. Deckle-cut fore- and bottom edges are yellowed. Slight wear to head and tail of spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. First edition, second state. 303 p. 24 cm. There are 16 colour plates, including the frontispiece, and numerous partly-coloured in-text drawings. Light green cloth, decorated in darker green and red on the front cover and spine, and in dark green on the rear cover. Some dark marks on lower front, spine ends a bit bumped. Small ink signature and stamps on front endpapers. Some marks on bottom corner of rear free endpaper. Illustrations between pages 169 and 184 and 221 and 236 are coloured in turquoise. The events of the book alternate between Noland and Ix, two neighboring regions to Baum's more famous Land of Oz. Baum himself beleived Queen Zixi was the best book he had written. The illustrator Frederick Richardson worked on editions of Aesop's Fables, Hans Christian Andersen, and Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, but is probably best remembered for illustrating works by Baum.

First Edition. Minor creasing to the title. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with the title blocked direct in gilt. Spine compartments uniformly tooled in gilt. An exceptional copy - scans and additional detail on request. ; 219 pages; Description: viii, 219 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 25 cm. Subjects: Fairy tales --United States. Contents: The queen's museum -- The Christmas truants -- THe griffin and the minor canon -- Old pipes and the dryad -- The bee-man of Ora -- The clocks of Rondaine -- Christmas before last -- Prince Hassak's march -- The philopena etc. 3 Kg.