A BALL OF YARN: Its Unwinding [YELLOW YARNS] by WHITING, Robert Rudd - 1907

Paul Elder, 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition, Paul Elder 1907. Very good boards with red cloth backstrip. Minor wear to extremities. An attractive volume. .

12mo in illustrated boards. 79 pp. Color frontispiece plus four color plates. VG. Light wear and soiling to boards. Binding is strong. Interior is pristine. No writing or markings of any kind. Ships wrapped in bubble wrap and packed securely in a box.

San Francisco and New York: Paul Elder and Company, 1907. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Johnson, Merle. No jacket. Board edges rubbed, spine stained. 1907 Hard Cover. 79 pp. Includes color frontispiece and plates. EXCERPT: Four pairs of legs radiated from the cold stove in the center of the room the massive, imposing legs that supported the three hundred and sixty-odd pounds of William Little, land lord of' the Mansion House; the long, literary legs that terminated in Ezra Norton, editor of The Oxendale Townsman; the sophisticated, urban legs, enwrapped in startling chechs and capped with patent leather, which hustled,when called upon, for Lochinvar Leary, the' cigar drummer; and, finally, the legs inside the earth-encrusted hoots that had the honor of upholding Ehenezer Ahhott, Oxendale's sage and raconteur.

San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1907. 1st . Hardcover. Good/Fair. Merle Johnson. 79 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Merle Johnson. Paper on spine chipped. Light lettering on spine. Some wear to front cover. All pages clean and legible. Gutter cracked. Record # 53500