emily prime delafield bertram grosvenor (1 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Acceptable. First Edition. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. Scarce 1898 First Edition of Emily Prime Delafield's adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Illustrated by notable artist-architect-designer Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, who worked with the Merrymount Press (rear of book says 'Printed by D. B. Updike, the Merrymount Press, 1898). Goodhue worked with Ralph Adams Cram on many of the great neo-Gothic buildings in America at this time. Goodhue designed the lovely full-color cover and two full-page drawings in red and black adorn the book. Book in Acceptable to Poor condition. All pages present. Cover battered and worn; two-inch section of lower spine missing. Colors on cover lovely but faded. Hinge weak. Lovely orange and red pastedowns contain iconic drawings of a dodo, the Cheshire cat, the Mad Hatter, etc. Frontispiece containing Goodhue's Knave of Hearts detached but still present. Other pages loose. High quality bond paper shows some tanning. Page-ends nibbled at top right. See pictures. Battered but precious.