Macmillan david patrick ailleen phillips (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. Cloth is worn though at corners and spine and there is color removed in an area along the edge of the spine. The paper is starting at some of the sewn areas. There is owner's name and age inside front cover. Publisher is Tucker, 1914. Illustrated by Phillips, Ailleen (illustratore).…

First edition (not stated). 128 pages. Hardcover: H 20cm x L 14cm. No dust jacket present. Green cloth rubbed; front board decorated with soiled oval paste-on color image by Ailleen Phillips; light wear at spine ends; board corners bumped; strong staining to rear board; gilt lettering upon spine and front board quite legible but no longer particularly bright. Front and rear yellow pastedowns with opposing free endpapers well browned. Several binding splits are evident between four or so of the book's quires but none are tenuous. Juvenile fictional literature telling the story of little Mary-Gold Eager by David Patrick MacMillan. Features floral border page decorations and five color plates (including frontispiece with tissue guard) plus aforementioned front board pastedown all illustrated by Ailleen Phillips, later Ailleen Phillips Shannon (1888-1964), who was born in Gillsburg, Mississippi and studied under with William Merritt Chase. She is best known for her New Mexico landscape paintings. A good copy of a scarce Mississippi-published children's story.…