ries gerta (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Navy cloth hardcover with pastedown at front board. Rubbing to boards, cloth broken at edges. Rubbing to pastedown. Pages illustrated in red, green, purple and yellow ink. Previous owner has written page numbers in green pencil, streak of pencil across one page. Some discoloration to pages, as well. A nice copy, overall, despite wear and markings.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Red, illustrated paper over boards with tan cloth over spine. Black lettering to spine. DJ is present, but is in two pieces and tucked into book. Title and copyright page dated 1927, stated first edition. 74 pages. Good condition. Binding intact. Pages toned but clean. Only pencil writing from a former bookseller (not me!) on front free end page. Had deckled page edges. Illustrations throughout. SIGNED by author on front free end page. He wrote: "To the Bleyer Kids, Robin Christopher June 1925" (the date's a little puzzling, but that's what it says.) Robin Christopher was the pen name of writer A.B. Shiffrin. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Gerta Ries (illustrator). This lavish childrens book was possibly inspired by Dreamland, Coney Island which flourished as a pleasure park between 1903 and 1911. Not to be confused with Dreamland Margate which while predating it from 1860 was not branded Dreamland until 1920. The book is illustrated by Gerta Ries (1898-1948) and from the style dates from the 1920s. Thee are seven delightful pictures each making a double page spread on what appears to be heavy card. This in fact is two thinner sheets laminated together allowing the top sheet to have slots into which can be placed cut out cardboard dollies allowing the children to make their own story line. There are 42 dollies kept in a separate envelope of which there maybe a few ahort. The V&A copy has 49. Book size 340x280mm landscape.

0. 28,2 x 33,7 cm. 14 ungez. Seiten (einschl. Innendeckel) mit doppelblattgr. farbigen Tafeln und über 50 (teils reproduzierten) Einsteckfiguren von Gerta Ries, farbig illustr. OHlwd. mit farbigem Deckelbild. Seltenes Stalling-Bilderbuch mit Einsteckfiguren in der Art des >Nürnberger Puppenstubenspielbuchs<. Unter den Tafeln vierzeilige Strophen. Die Angaben bei Liebert 32 sind falsch, ebenso bei Klinkow/Scheffer. Fachmännisch restauriertes Exemplar. Alle Gelenke des Leporellos mit Papierstreifen stabilisiert. Insgesamt gut erhalten, die Einsteckfiguren selten so vollständig. Sprache: Deutschu.