Witter bynner rhymes (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. NO DJ. 1st Edition. Green boards with moderate overall soiling; few brown spots; corners bumped; first free end paper upper right corner bent and torn off. Looks to be first; no additional printings noted. Internally very clean. Rackham, Arthur (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good-. Inscribed by author on both the half-title page and the front panel of the dust jacket, plus her notations on the copyright page and her addition of one additional title to the ''by the same author'' list that precedes the foreword. Blue cloth boards pictorially stamped in black on the front cover. Very mild wear to edges of cloth. The interior, aside from a few minor smudges, is clean and unmarked. Bottom right corner of title page appears a little crumpled. Dust jacket is chipped at spine ends and corners; a few short closed tears; shows general soiling; price on spine ($1.75 net); in a clear archival sleeve. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 13 illustrated plates (three, including frontispiece, are color). viii, (9)-78 pages. 9.5 x 7.25 inches. Scarce in jacket. Inscription reads: ''To the young folks of the / Beverly Hills Public Library / from the author / Julia Ellsworth Ford / Rye, N.Y / 1948''. A similar inscription by the author also appears on the front panel of the dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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 (illustratore). book.…

Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: 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.…