8vo, dark brown cloth, gilt titles on spine. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Bailey tipped in, 431 pages. Slavery, Freedom, and Ghosts in the Hudson River Valley - a mixture of fact and fable. Good. Rubbed at top bottom of spine, corners; bits of newspaper residue on back cover. Newspaper obituaries of Bailey glued to front end papers. Some damp-staining to flyleaf page with tipped portrait but not affecting the photo. Front hinge weak but intact. Text block otherwise clean and tight with no foxing. View More...
Drawings and cover by Vera Mikhailovna ErmolaevaThird edition. M.-L., Gosizdat, 1931. 5.6-7/8", stapled wrappers. 8 pp. Circulation 50,000 copies. Price 10 kop. In publisher's lithographed covers. CONDITION: VERY GOOD. A particularly bright and clean copy of a scarce Soviet children's book. None online; none in WorldCat. We have located one auction record in 2010 for the second edition [1930], by Russian auction house, Imperia.Interior is near fine with just a hint of toning typical to newsprint. Minor fading to outer covers, with just a hint of rubbing to spine and corners. Light dampsta... View More...
1st ed. 4to, red cloth with gilt decorations and titles, 156 pp. Illustrated with wood enravings and ornamentation. 3 volumes in one. Original publisher’s catalog entry clipped and pasted to front flyleaf. CONDITION: Good; rubbed at corners and spine ends, front hinge lightly cracked. Light foxing to bottom of first several pages and occasional page edges; otherwise a clean copy with very good-near fine appearance internally. View More...
1st ed. thus. 8vo, Quarter-bound in tan cloth over printed boards with the swan logo. With twenty one woodcut illustrations by Rachel Russell. Printed on hand-made paper and limited to 250 copies; this being no. 193. A near fine copy with light rubbing at corners and toning to end papers. Affixed to the inside back cover is one of the scarce ½” square ‘R.L. Stevenson Copyright” lables with a hand-inked price. These were placed in the back of some of Stevenson’s posthumously published works by representatives of his estate in order to permit collection of copyright royalties. View More...
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