Barbara thompson (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The year is somewhere around 1811. Daisie Moon looks like a doll but is not one because she can walk, talk, and think for herself. She hangs on to Annie O and Fern as they gallop on the back of their pony and away from the mean cotton mill boss, Mr. Roughnickel. Running away deep into the forest, they meet Coletta the Great and her travelling circus. They join up with the clowns and the circus dogs, as Coletta promises them that they will learn to do tricks in their own acts. Besides, they have nowhere else to go. No one at the circus minds that Daisie can walk and talk. Everyone at the circus is special. Daisie meets a wind-up doll named Solange who stars in a trapeze act of her own. Daisie would love to make friends with her, but will she have to fly high up in the air with Solange Fern is happy at the circus. Annie O is not. Why would she be She does chores all day long for Coletta. When the circus travels to Nantucket Island, Annie O meets Maria Mitchell, the soon-to-be famous astronomer. Will they be friends Annie O hopes so. Will it be her chance to leave the circus where she is so unhappy and will Daisie leave with her. …

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition, First Printing. (Denver: Barbara Thompson, 2015). First Edition. 10¾ x 8½ in. iii,173pp. Numerous illustrations. Softcover, near fine condition. Catalogue Raisonne. Typed Letter Signed by compiler laid in. ISBN 9781495173332; Illustrated; 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches; 173 pages.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Doll rules are not for everyone, especially for Daisie Moon. After all, Daisie is not just an ordinary doll, maybe not even a doll at all! When the magical Daisie lands on the shores of Philadelphia in 1789, after falling overboard from a ship, she pretends that she cannot walk, talk, or think, in spite of the fact that she can! So no one will guess that she is more than a doll, she tries to sit still and smile all day long. This soon proves to be impossible for Daisie as she wants to have adventures in America, but still worries what might happen if people find out who she really is Lady Rules are not for everyone either. At first, Eliza Principle, a girl of twelve years, dreams of attending Dame School to learn embroidery and to follow the strict rules of ladylike behavior. When Betsy Ross brings Daisie to Eliza as a gift, Eliza sees that she could be more popular with Polly Comstock and the older girls at her school if Daisie were at her side!Will Daisie and Eliza have to break the rules to become the girls who they imagine they can be--ones who are responsible and self-reliant, and can read the Latin names of the flowers at Mr. Charles Peale's museum, find foreign countries on the world globe, and ride a horse through town.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in silver on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued; contained in a matching slipcase. Photographs and text by Harry Callahan. Essay by Hugo Weber. Includes a bibliography. Designed by Wayne Thompson. Unpaginated, with 126 black-and-white plates beautifully printed using 300-line screen offset process on Warren's Offset Enamel paper by the Meriden Gravure Company. The text is handset and printed letterpress in Bembo and Centaur by Bradley Brownell. 13-1/2 x 11-1/4 inches. This first edition was limited to 1500 copies. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), and in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004).]. Near Fine (endpapers discolored, in vertical strips along the spine, due to aging of the glue used, as is the case with virtually all copies of this title, else Fine).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with title stamped in silver on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued; contained in a matching slipcase. Photographs and text by Harry Callahan. Essay by Hugo Weber. Includes a bibliography. Designed by Wayne Thompson. Unpaginated, with 126 black-and-white plates beautifully printed using 300-line screen offset process on Warren's Offset Enamel paper by the Meriden Gravure Company. The text is handset and printed letterpress in Bembo and Centaur by Bradley Brownell. 13-1/2 x 11-1/4 inches. This first edition was limited to 1500 copies. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), and in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004).]. Near Fine (binding loose; endpapers discolored, in vertical strips along the spine, due to aging of the glue used, as is the case with virtually all copies of this title, else Fine).…