Dixie Willson Editor (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Blue cloth cover has light bumping to tips of the boards, moderate crushing to top and bottom of spine and sunning and soiling to the edges. The pages are lightly tanned due to age, clean, unmarked and firmly bound. Previous owner's name elegantly written on IFC. This book is in near fine condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. C. E. Millard (illustrator). First Edition. First printing. 184 pp. Interestingly, a slip is tipped in at page 101 stating "Sarah Cone Bryant should be named as the author of Epaminondas, a Southern Nonsense Tale. This story appears in this book by mistake and without the permission of Miss Bryant or her publishers, Houghton Mifflin Company." Worn at the spine ends and corners. The hinges are cracked with mesh holding. A brief gift inscription dated Christmas 1938 is on the front pastedown. Previous owner's bookplate is on the front free endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Various (illustrator). First Edition. New York: The Butterick Publishing Company, 1925. September, 1925. Cover from a painting by F.Z. Hueston. Folio, wrappers, 84 pp. Light soiling, previous owner's signature at top edge. Very good for this, otherwise really quite better. See scans. Large, "bedsheet" size periodical, at a turning point in its history as a fashion bellwether here in this issue. Fashion sketches are flappery and elongated, as they would indeed also be with the full advent of its art deco period in ensuing years, but this cover is prior to the unique Helen Dryden covers period, and the art and editing is not yet fully awash in deco mindset. In addition to the fashion, coooking and homemaking pages, though, there is serious fiction and full vintage illustration of it here, including Zona Gale's "A Thief in the Night", Irving Bacheller's "The Secret of Being Happily Married", Margaret Culkin Banning's "The Fortune Hunter", "The Weakest Link", by University of Michigan sports legend Fielding H. Yost, and Dixie Willson's "Little Texas". Some of the celebrated artists for these works include Clara Elsene Peck, Joseph Simont, Gerald Leake and Paul Meylan. A tour de force in the fiction & illustration department - and that isn't even the strong point for this Butterick publication, which is a living timeline in the history of American fashion. Nice. Please see scans. lg6.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Bailey, Corrine; Bailey, Bill (illustrator). First Authorized Edition. Copyright MCMXXXV by The Saalfield Publishing Company. Publishers for the Children. Registered at Stationers' Hall. Semi-gloss pictorial boards, grey cloth spine wrap with titles, some corner, edge wear, rub. Pictoral covers featuring Shirley Temple seated in striped chair reading to dolls and stuffed toys. Charming silhouette endpapers of Shirley on snare marching with toy soldiers. Pages good. Color frontispiece of a darling color painting of Shirley in color. Full and partial-page designs by Corinne & Bill Bailiey at the turn of every leaf. Bind good; hinges intact. Solid, near good rarity of pure wholesome fun! Printed in the United States of America. 106 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Bailey, Corrine; Bailey, Bill (illustrator). First Authorized Edition. Stated "Authorized Edition" at title page and front wrapper panel. Copyright MCMXXXV by The Saalfield Publishing Company. Publishers for the Children. Registered at Stationers' Hall. Semi-gloss pictorial boards, green cloth spine wrap with black titles, light edge wear, corner chip. Pictoral covers in color featuring an amazed Shirley Temple seated in striped chair reading to dolls and stuffed toys. Charming silhouette endpapers of Shirley on the snare marching with toy soldiers. Pages near fine, clean. Color frontispiece of a darling painting of Shirley reading on floor with Puppy Stories, Adventure Sampler, and Animal Tales up next. Full and partial-page designs, headers and tailpieces by Corinne & Bill Bailey at the turn of every leaf. Bind fine; hinges intact. Scarce original wrapper matching color cover design, moderate chip, rub; protected in new clear sleeve. Summary description at front flap; other available Temple titles at back flap. Sharp first edition in original dust wrapper of pure wholesome fun! Printed in the United States of America. 106 pages. Insured post. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.