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The Blue Flower
by Van Dyke, Henry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Hopewell Jct, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1902. 299pgs. Very Good harcover, decorative binding signed MA, navy cloth with attractive decoration in gilt and green by Margaret Armstrong on front board and spine. Attractive period bookplate with the poem "If thou art borrowed by a friend..." and gift inscription [to Dr. Jno. S. Niles by his nephew Frank L. Niles) on front endpapers. Faint bookstore/druggist's shop stamp (Carbondale, PA) on bottom corner of rear endpaper. Clean, sound and otherwise unmarked. Publication date: October 1902. A series of nine short stories, iIllustrated with color plate artwork by these artists: R.J. Weguelin, F.V. DuMond, Arthur Heming, Howard Pyle, C.K. Linson. Contents: The Blue Flower, The Source, The Mill, Spy Rock, Wood-Magic, The Other Wise Man, A Handful of Clay, The Lost Word, The First Christmas Tree. #1951.. No Additional Printings Indicated. Decorated Cloth Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Margaret Armstrong, R.J. Weguelin. 12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inches Tall.
Synopsis
Sometimes short stories are brought together like parcels in a basket. Sometimes they grow together like blossoms on a bush. Then, of course, they really belong to one another, because they have the same life in them.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ravenroost Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1951
- Title
- The Blue Flower
- Author
- Van Dyke, Henry
- Illustrator
- Margaret Armstrong, R.J. Weguelin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- No Additional Printings Indicated
- Publisher
- Charles Scribners Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- 12mo - 6¾ - 7¾ Inc
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Henry Van Dyke, The Blue Flower, Short Stories, R.J. Weguelin, F.V. DuMond, Arthur Heming, Howard Pyle, C.K. Linson, The Source, The Mill, Spy Rock, Wood-Magic, The Other Wise Man, A Handful of Clay, The Lost Word, Decorative Bindings, The First Christmas
- Bookseller catalogs
- COMPLETE CATALOG; SHORT STORIES, ANTHOLOGIES, TALES, MYTHS; ANTIQUARIAN AND PRE 1900; Decorated Bindings; Fiction, Literature, Mystery, Classics; Gift Ideas;
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
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- 12mo
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Plate
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- Cloth
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