Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Winter, Milo; Cook, Francis Kerr; Higgins, Violet Moore; Dash, Joseph D.; Lyon, Mildred; Samsel, Genevieve Fusch (illustratore). Enlarged Edition. Collection of 14 short stories about Christmas written & illustrated by the "Just Right" authors & artists, preceded by Clement C. Moore's classic poem, "The Night Before Christmas." First published in 1926, this is the Enlarged Edition from 1929, in 128 pages with colorful illustrations & pen-&-ink drawings throughout, Small hardcover has green cloth-covered boards edged & lettered in gilt to front & spine (nearly completely faded here), with a front paper pastedown showing Santa in his sleigh by artist Milo Winter. Condition is Fair (& priced accordingly): heavy rubbing to exterior, with fraying at all corners & spine tips. Small soiled area to bottom fore edge side corner of front cover. But the sewn binding is strong & straight, pages creamy white with the random soiled spot or tear/chip; mild overall tanning. Images are colorful & full of vintage charm for a new generation of young readers at holiday time. No DJ. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Seeley Service, London
Da: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, Regno Unito
EUR 17,90
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Various (illustratore). Good+ condition in worn dust wrapper in protective cover, octavo, mid brown cloth spine with tan cloth boards, Lonsdale initial and crown in gilt on front, titles and gilt across spine, neat gift inscription dated 1962 on front free end paper, Foyles booksellers label on front end paper, one instance of marginalia - the list of winners of the Grand National stop at 1954, a previous owner has completed from 1963 to 1967. otherwise text is clean and bright and the binding firm, illustrated with a colour plate frontis piece and 69 other illustrations on plates and 5 other illustrations in text (there is a discrpancy between the dust wrapper and the number of plates called for; 334 pages including index. [QP].
Data di pubblicazione: 1954
Da: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, Regno Unito
EUR 23,86
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: Very good. 1954, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp334, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, tan cloth spine over beige boards in dustwrapper.
Editore: University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1957
Da: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: MWABA
Prima edizione Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE EDITOR and warmly inscribed to Jack M. Siegel of the Chicago City Council. Includes a chapter by Virgil Peterson on "Issues and Problems in Metropolitan Area Police Services." Book is fine and unmarked; jacket has a small closed tear to the bottom spine corner and a smaller one to the front outer corner, and is otherwise whole, clean and bright, and protected by Mylar.