Tales Of Wonder

Howard Pyle, Katherine Pyle: The Wonder Clock or Four and Twenty Marvelous Tales, Being One for Each Hour of the Day; Written By and Illustrated By Howard Pyle. Embellished with Verses By Katherine Pyle, E.M. Hale and Company 1915
Very Good Howard Pyle

A very neat, clean, and well preserved ex-lib book with only markings being stamp to title page, info page, a cardholder neatly (quite neatly) removed from ffep and 398p in very small letters near heel of spine. Illustrated profeusely throughout, must be well over 100 illustrations of scenes from the middle ages, medeival times. Boards are colorful, decorative, and very elaborate as is spine. Good head and heel to unfaded spine which is very presentable for shelf, very light wear to head only. Goodedges and corners to spotless boards, corners have some rubbing off of cloth but not heavily bumped. Inside boards and end pages colorful. Binding is tight as can be as are hinges. Clean, tight and even page edges. Lightest signs of handling only. Inside the pages are clean, crisp and white. A very nice copy for the collector of which a photo is available upon request. Edition Not Stated No Jacket Decorative Cloth

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Lewis, Matthew Gregory. Tales of Wonder. 3 Bände. Wien, R. Sammer, 1805. ; fester Einband / hard cover
Einbände etw. berieben. Rücken leicht verblasst. Vorderdeckelbezüge m. Fehlstelle durch entf. Aufkleber. Tlw. schwach stockfleckig. -

12°. 2 Bll., 248 S.; 2 Bll., 277 S.; 2 Bll., 183 (recte 283) (1) S., Marmor. Ppbde. d. Zt. m. goldgepr. Rückenschildern.

[KW: Lewis, Tales of Wonder]

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. TANGLEWOOD TALES, For Girls and Boys; being A Second Wonder-Book. (Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1864)

An early issue and scarce. With fine full-page engravings throughout. 8vo, original red ribbed cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine and blocked and elaborately decorated in blind on the covers. 336. A lovely copy, unusually clean and quite fresh with the gilt intact on the spine. A small smudge on the upper cover and a touch of evidence of shelving, and internally only lightly mellowed.

[KW: amer lit. childrens. 19th c. illustrated transcendentalist]

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Patten, William (selected and arranged by); Charles W. Eliot (introduction); William Allan Neilson (reading guide): The Junior Classics (10 Volumes, Complete) New York P. F. Collier 1918 ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
Very Good Illustrated

No edition stated, copyright 1918. Embossed and very decorative pictorial cloth binding, gold titles, top edge gilt. Illustrated by famous artists, including Groesbeck, Dulac, Rackham, Dore, Jessie Wilcox Smith in color frontispieces and monotone plates. Decorative endpapers. Fairy and Wonder Tales; Folk Tales and Myths; Tales from Greece and Rome; Heroes and Heroines; Stories That Never Grow Old; Old Fashioned Tales; Stories of Courage and Heroism; Animal and Nature Stories; Stories of Today; Poems/Guide and Indexes. Edgewear, some hinges cracked, a few volume with light stains to endpapers. Very good condition. First Edition Decorative Cloth 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; First Edition

[KW: GROESBECK RACKHAM DULAC GUSTAVE DORE JESSIE WILCOX SMITH]

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