Maud and Miska Petersham, Illustrators
Olive Beauore Miller, editor
Tales Told in Holland
Chicago: Bookhouse For Children: 1948 reprint.. 4to (8X11 in) 191 pps. Red cloth boards with pasted circular inset. Gold stamped titles. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated by the great Petershams.
The Story Book of Aircraft
Philadephia: John Winston: 1935 8vo. Cloth bound in blue. Black titles with pastedown. Spine ends bumped. Some bubbles at edge of front cover. Owner has written name in gold pen at bottom R of front cover. Something has been pasted and removed on rear pastedown. (Not X-lib). DJ has damage. Several chips. Interior bright and clean. VG/Fair . Bookseller Inventory # 397
Price: $30.00
The Story Book of Trains
Chicago Winston, 1947 Later printing of this. Small pencil scribble on free endpaper. No Dj. Cover paste-on VG. Over all VG + . Bookseller Inventory # 355
Price: $25
America's Stamps
NY MacMillan Co, 1947 1st. 4to. Blue cloth cover decorated in black. 144 pgs. 1 full page full color illus. b&w and two color on every page. Fine in VG with Broadart wrapper. Bookseller Inventory # 352 Price: $45.00
THE STORY BOOK OF SHIPS
Phila. Winston. 1947 Not first. 1947 8vo in blue cloth [7.5 X 7.5 inches] Owner's name on free endpaper. Otherwise unmarked. Minor scuffing of corners and spine ends. Paste doiwn illustration on cover bright and clean. Very Good No DJ. Bookseller Inventory # 161
Price: $25
Maude and Miska Petersham, Illustrators
John C. Winston Co. Chicago et al. Nine of the famous "Petersham Series" Story Books, each measuring 8X8 inches and comprising 32 pages more or less lavishly illustrated by this prolific husband and wife team. Pages are un-numbered. All are as pictured here, in original dust jackets and all are unclipped, the original sixty cent price showing. All were published in the early 1930s and are first editions. A rare find for any serious collector. Books are in Very Good to Fine condition. No markings. A few small chips bottom of three or four pages in one volume. Wrinkles in another. Owner name on FEP in another. Otherwise FINE in Very Good to Fine. Inventory # 7599 Price $225.00
SOLD
Tabori, Lena (editor); Fried, Natasha Tabori (editor)
A Little Box of Books : Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, Songs
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Welcome Enterprises, Incorporated, 2002 3 books in slipcase, each 24mo (5X5 inches) Alternate text and full page illustrations by well-known illustrators . Indicated first edition. Price sticker on slipcase. Fine in Fine Inventory $ 6099 Price $35.00
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.
