Edité par National Review, New York, 2012
Vendeur : Time Traveler Books, Pittsburgh, PA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. Illustrated by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis (illustrateur). Gently read copy. International orders may require additional postage. ; 24 Illustrations in color and 102 in monotone. ; 347 pages.
Edité par National Review
Vendeur : THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis (illustrateur). Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover.
Edité par Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1917
Vendeur : Linda's Rare Books, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Florence Choate & Elizabeth Curtis (illustrateur). First Edition. Red boards has fraying and fading to spine. Binding is loose. There is some old tape on front endpaper, some soiling and first tissue guard has tape. An owner from 1918's bookplate on title page. Interior is clean and complete. Contains many Grimm, Perrault and Andersen stories, some Arabian nights and the Story of Little Black Sambo. Rare find. Heavy book may cost extra to send overseas.
Edité par Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York, 1924
Vendeur : Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC, I.O.B.A., Durham, NC, Etats-Unis
Membre d'association : IOBA
Edition originale
First edition. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1924. xviii, 398 pages, plus color frontispiece and 19 double-sided plates, all from photographs. One full-page map printed with the text. Original dark green ribbed cloth lettered in gilt with a mounted color plate on the front cover. 22 x 15 cm. Very good plus in good plus dust jacket. The rear hinge is cracked but holding well. Some moderate foxing to pages facing plates and minor foxing to the margins of a few of the plates themselves, but in no place affecting the images. Still a bright and attractive copy. The scarce jacket has a dime-sized chip where the spine and front panels meet, a few smaller edge chips, several short, closed tears, and some minor soiling. FIRST EDITION. An attractively illustrated introduction to Mexico designed for the traveler or general reader. Many of the plates reproduce the photographs of Hugo Brehme (1882-1954), a German who emigrated to Mexico in 1908, who is "considered to be one of the founders of Mexican pictorialist photography" (Online Archive of California). His contributions to this book include the color frontispiece which is replicated on the front cover and the dust jacket.This was the second book by Elizabeth Vernon Quinn (1881-1962), preceded by her "Beautiful America" (1923). As with most of her books, she here adopts a male persona by omitting her first name. Quinn published many other books, mostly for children, including works on geography, gardening, and card games.
Edité par Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York, 1917
Vendeur : The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, Etats-Unis
Red Cloth. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Choate, FLorence; Curtis, Elizabeth (illustrateur). Sunned along spine. Light wear to head and tail of spine. Small, closed tear on back edge of spine, at head. P. 49 has a chip at one corner. Vertical crease on p. 231. Very small marking on back paste down page. Very small, closed tear on top edge of last free end page. Small, closed tear on back hinge at paste down. Otherwise very good.