Witter bynner rhymes (2 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham, this is the first edition of Julia Ellsworth Ford's charming children's play inspired by the Oscar Wilde tale 'The Selfish Giant'. The first edition, first printing. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and two further colour plates by Arthur Rackham, alongside further vignettes. Collated, complete. A fantastical children's play in which a series of characters explore the winter garden of Oscar Wilde's Selfish Giant. The work of Julia Ellsworth Ford, with rhymes from Witter Bynner. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, vibrant, with bump to back strip tail. Areas of fading to front board and back strip tail. Tide mark to dust wrapper back strip, with small losses to back strip head and tail. Two closed tears to front wrap tail, with losses to rear wrap tail, and light edgewear to rear wrap head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. Arthur Rackham (illustrator). book.…

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good +. Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, 1935. Third Printing. Quarto; publisher's cloth in yellow pictorial dust jacket, in custom red cloth slipcase; [8],132pp.; three half-tone plates, text illus. throughout, sheet music in rear. Dust jacket heavily and rather crudely restored, verso backed and color touched up along margins of external extremities partially obscuring several smallish losses and closed tears; corners gently bumped, else Near Fine in a Good, albeit rather compromised copy of the dust jacket. Dedication page inscribed and signed by the author "To the Edgewood School young people from the author / Julia Ellsworth Ford / Rye / 1945." Delightful children's play by the New York socialite Julia Ellsworth Ford (1859-1950), first published in 1919. A slightly different reprint appeared in 1933 with colored plates (see RIALL, p. 180); LATIMORE & HASKELL, p. 72. Signed.…