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Philadelphia: Davis, Porter & Coates. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 8pp. No date circa 1860s. Yellow pictorial wraps, stitched spine. LIght cover soil, contents mostly clean. A 2 line verse describes the hand-colored illustration for each month of the year. A well-preserved little book.
A Child's Stamp Book of Old Verses by Smith, Jessie Willcox - 1915
by Smith, Jessie Willcox
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A Child's Stamp Book of Old Verses
by Smith, Jessie Willcox
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New York: Duffield & Company, 1915. 31pp. White illustrated boards, black and red decoration and framed pictorial stamp in center of front cover. Each right hand page has a stamp representing the text on the opposite page. Slight loss of cover title, light cover soil and darkening. Contents are clean and unmarked.. Hard Cover. Very Good. Illus. by Jessie Willcox Smith. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
- Bookseller Old Bookshelf (US)
- Illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith
- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Duffield & Company
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1915
- Keywords Juvenile Poems
- Size 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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Philadelphia: Davis, Porter & Coates. Soft cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 8pp. No date circa 1860s. Yellow pictorial wraps, stitched spine. LIght cover soil, contents mostly clean. A 2 line verse describes the hand-colored illustration for each month of the year. A well-preserved little book.
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New York: Wise-Parslow Company, 1937. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Johnny Gruelle. Unpaginated approx. 100pp. Black pictorial cover. Ex-library with usual markings, corners rubbed, contents are clean. Book is INSCRIBED and SIGNED on half-title page : "To the Mark Twain Library from Ethel Fairmont Beebe, Westport, Conn. 1959." Book was evidently donated by the author to the Mark Twain Library in West Redding, Connecticut. Wonderful color illustrations by Johnny Gruelle. ik
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The Man Who Lost His Head. By Claire Huchet Bishop. Viking Press, Copyright Renewed 1970. 16th Impression thus. Exlib. VG/VG unclipped DJ. Original cover price $3.56. Wrap-around blue and white endpapers show a headless man walking past farm animals on his way to the fair to look for his head there. Pages are bright. Now protected in a mylar wrap. A fantasy illustrated by Robert McCloskey, author and illustrator of "Make Way For Ducklings". Summary: "A man wakes up to find that he has no head, so he goes looking for it." Hard title to find.
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