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Maud and Miska Petersham, Illustrators Nursery Friends From France Chicago: My Bookhouse, 1927. 191 pages, endpapers illustrated with map of France, Covers in grayblue with paste-up of a drawing based on a painting by Francois Drouais hanging in the Louvre. These are among the best of the Petershams' illustrations. Poems and songs translated into English from the original French, all of them over 100 years old, about shepherdesses, peasants and princes, villagers and sailors, lawyers and millers, carpenters, duchesses and beggars, soldiers and thatched roofs, Gothic church spires, and flowery meadows. . Tips and spine ends very slightly rubbed. Decorative endpapers and book interior are bright as new.. Inventory # 7666 Price $65.00 |
Katharine Sturgis, Illustrator
Little Pictures of Japan
Miller, Olive BeaupreBook Description: Chicago: The Book House for Children, 1925, 1st printing., 1925. Oversize, royal purple textured boards with bright round color cover label and gilt titles to cover and spine.Highly decorative end-papers. 191 pages and many color wonderful illustrations by Katharine Sturges.
Some fading to the covers but no damage Very Good Copy.
Inventory # 8535 Price $60.00
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Maud and Miska Petersham, Illustrators
Olive Beauore Miller, editor
Tales Told in Holland
Chicago: Bookhouse For Children: 4to (8X11 in) 191 pps. Red cloth boards with pasted circular inset. Gold stamped titles. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated by the great Petershams. This is the 28th printing, made in 1950. It is a truly beautiful copy. The gold titles are brilliant, the book could pass as new. Inventory# 8534 Price: $110.00
