christmas stocking series cinderella sleeping de baum frank (5 résultats)

1905. Reilly & Britton Co. Hardcover. 4" x 3". Bound in red paper with a pictorial cover. Illustrated in color and black and white. Good only. Binding is tight and contents are clean. Spine paper is quite chipped and the lettering is faded.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Boxed set of six 12mo volumes, each measuring approximately 3 by 4 inches. Most are dated 1905; Peter Rabbit is dated 1911. The publisher's advertisements at the end of each book are for titles published in 1911, including 'The Magic Aeroplane' and Eight Little Japs' and 'Twinkle and Chubbins'. Hardcover, bound in original bright red paper-covered boards with pictorial pastedown to front covers surrounded by a stamped design of holly & berries. Plain red endpapers. Each book contains numerous full-page color illustrations throughout. The set is housed in the publisher's original paper-covered slipcase which is meant to look like a traveller's trunk, with labels such as "Kriss Kringle Lane", "Reindeer Express Line" et al. Books are in good to very good condition. Bindings and hinges are intact though slightly shaken. Pages are clean and unmarked with no signs of prior ownership. There is some shelf-wear and rubbing to extremities, mostly to spine ends and to the upper board corner of Night Before Christmas. The box is intact and in good shape with some wear to extremities, starting to split along one seam. There is no lid (as usual). All in all, this remains a nice example of a highly collectible set.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Hardcover. Baum's introduction discusses the history and custom of the Christmas stocking. Illustrated with color plates and with black and white line drawings within the text. Color frontis and title page. Red paper covered boards with dark green title and holly design to front board along with pasted down color vignette illustration. Dark green title to spine. Slight loss to top front corner and wear to other corners, edges, and spine ends. Clean, bright interior. 119 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Size: 4 x 3 inches. CHILD/080923.

First edition; 24mo.; paper covered boards with oval pictorial paste-on, hardcover; 119 pages plus ads.; black and white and color illustrations; former owner's name on front free endpaper with small christmas sticker and boards are edgeworn and rubbed else a very good clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Later Printings. Six Volumes, 32mo, 4" h x 3" w. The Night Before Christmas dated 1905, the rest, 1911. Bound in original red paper covered boards with pictorial paste downs to front covers that are surrounded by a stamped design of holly and berries. White end papers, each book with numerous full-page color and some black and white illustrations throughout, the only credited illustrator John R. Neill for Peter Rabbit. Introductions by L. Frank Baum. Publisher's ads at ends. A Very Good set, lacking the original slipcase, spines a bit rubbed, contents clean and unmarked, hinges solid. SCARCE as a complete set. The tumultuous and complicated history of "Little Black Sambo" as a book and as a pejorative term adds a painful overlay to this otherwise charming Christmas stocking stuffer. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. Book.