Cory f y illustrator (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Good. NY: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1906. Second impression. 263 pages. 7.75 x 5", white & black stamped tan cloth. Very light, neat, pencil editorial marks in 1 chapter, else clean, tight, VG.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. None. First Edition. Original quarter red cloth with pictorial boards. A collection of fabulistic children''s tales by a popular author of the period, illustrated in the style of Kate Greenaway. Minor scratch bo bottom edge of front board; light edge rubbing; name on endheet. Else a very good, clean and bright copy, unmarked. Very scarce.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A Good copy in the original grey pictorial cloth stamped in black (some spotting and stains to cloth with wear to extremities, particularly the upper corner of the front cover, which also has dampstain; upper corbners of text have dampstain, minor wear and spotting to text). Believed to be the first printing (Rand, McNally was inconsistent in marking printings in this era. This scarce edition of 'Alice' was issued as part of the Canterbury Classics series, and features an introduction by series editor, prominent educator Katharine Lee Bates (now best remembered as the author of the hymn 'America the Beautiful'). It has a strange mix in tone to today's way of thinking - according to the Introduction, the series was intended to 'help in arousing a desire for the more imaginative and inspiring legends of the Aryan race', and yet the final section - 'Suggestions to Teachers' exhorts them: 'The difficulty will arise, not in talking down to the child, but in thinking up to him. Let the spirit of the child lead you, then he will love the book and read it over and over again, laughing the wholesome laughter that has no sting in it.'.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good binding. First Edition. 8vo; in the publisher's olive cloth with gilt rules and decoration in gilt, and titling as well; with color pastedown to the upper board; spine imprint reading "Bowen Merrill"; with 12 full color inserted plates, including the frontispiece with tissue guard; in the first state with blank endpapers and with the typographical error on the copyright page.~~Overall, a nice copy a First Edition, first state printing of this Baum title. (Bienvenue, 196). Very Good binding.…