GENTLEST GIANT by STEWART, ANNA BIRD

Robert M. McBride & Company. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket 1st thus. Boards soiled. Owner's name on pastedown. Writing inside. Some pictures colored in. (poems, fantasy, humor)

NY: Robert M. McBride & Company. Near Fine. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Spots of foxing on the endpapers. Nice non-personalized inscription by Stewart on the fep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 150 pages; Signed by Author .

New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1929. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. [7], 8-148, [4] pp. Beige cloth with navy lettering on the front board and spine. Decorated endpapers and pastedowns. With in-text illustrations by Dugald Stewart Walker. The first printing of the second edition. A humorous book of poetry for children. A tiny dampstain to the spine and a few small tears to the last two pages; jacket is faded with a small chip to the front panel and a faint dampstain to the bottom of the spine panel.

London: Wayne Publishing Company , 1915. Oversized (tall) hardcover without dust jacket, 144 pages including many black-and-white and partially coloured drawings throughout;---laid in is a a small two-page price list also dated 1915 from bookseller Alfred P. Schmidt featuring "When Life's at the Dawn" extracted from The Gentlest Gianr;---pale blue covers with black and grey lettering and decoration has been exposed to water and has patchy discolouration (although no waterstaining is evident inside), light shelf wear along edges, heavier to corners, spine covering entirely missing except for a piece near the top with the title and one bird image, but spine backing is intact and book is tight in binding, so overall time has not been kind but otherwise the book is gently used, not deliberately abused, free front endpaper neatly removed, the remaining three endpapers are age toned far more than the pages which are very clean and unmarked (no child's acribbles, and… Read More

Wayne Pub. Co, 1915-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. Signed by author and illustrator

Bound by John Frederick Grabau. Inscribed by both the Author and Illustrator…
Tall 8vo, 144 pages including many Wonderfully illustrated, black-and-white and partially coloured drawings throughout; A humorous book of poetry for children.
John Frederick Grabau was born in Wisconsin in 1878. He trained as an artistic bookbinder, apprenticing in the printing shop of Gies & Co. and at Peter Paul's bookbindery. In 1902, Grabau became the protégé of Louis H. Kinder at the Roycroft community bindery. Kinder founded the Roycroft Bindery in 1896 and attracted many talented young artists, including Grabau, Harry Avery, and Charles Youngers. The Roycroft community produced some of the finest hand-crafted books, furniture, lamps and metalwork of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Grabau left Roycroft in 1905 to found the Derome Bindery in Buffalo, New York. He named the bindery after Nicolas Derome, who was noted for his dentelle borders. Grabau died in Aurora, New York, in 1948.
$500.00USD