Man in the Moon Stories Told Over the Radio-Phone by Josephine Lawrence - 1922

New York: Cupple & Leon Company, 1922. First Edition. Fair copy. No jacket. In blue cloth covers with gilt embossed lettering and pasteon picture on front cover. Seven colored plates are in good condition. Covers separated from pages. Previous owner's name on front pastedown. Split edge on spine of cover and on front edge. Pages are lightly soiled. Pictures upon request. Heavy shelf rubbing. Thank you for your patromage.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. Illus. by Johny Gruelle. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Cupples and Leon, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1922, First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth with pictorial onlay. 121 pp. 8 color plates, decorative endpapers and b&w in-text illustrations. Very Good, no dust jacket. Slight bowing to the front board; extremities bumped; thin band of sunning along the left side of the cover image. Previous owner's gift inscription on the front pastedown; offsetting on title page from the frontis; occasional faint finger smudge to the margins; sound binding. An attractive copy of this children's classic, with illustrations by Johnny Gruelle, the creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy.

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1922. Near fine.. First edition of this charming collection of new and classic children's stories as told by the Man in the Moon, with the help of radiophone technology, a beautiful copy. Radiophones were more commonly known as crystal radios, and they were some of the earliest portable radio devices. Crystal radios could only facilitate one-way communication, hence the format of the Man in the Moon telling these stories. 8.5'' x 6.5''. Original blue publisher's cloth binding with color pictorial paste-on. Color pictorial endpapers of the man in the moon looking down on a town. Illustrated by Gruelle with full-page color frontispiece with seven full-page color plates and numerous black-and-white in-text illustrations throughout. 121, [1] pages. Owner leaf filled out in ink, dated 1923. Light bumping to spine ends, gilt on spine slightly faded, else quite beautiful: hinges firm, cloth bright.

New York:: Cupples & Leon Company,, [1922].. First edition.. publisher's cloth with applied color illustration on front panel, in dust jacket.. Some light use to cloth; but a very attractive, tight and sound copy in a lightly worn illustrated jacket with several internal tape repairs to short tears, andone coin-sized and several other tiny chips.. 8vo,. Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle.. Ink gift inscription in supplied printed space for the same on front pastedown.