Eldon Kelley Illus (1 results)
More imagesPublished by Harper & Brothers, New York 1928
- First Edition
Seller: Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC, Durham, NC, U.S.A.Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. [6], 182, [1] pages, plus color frontispiece. Nine drawings printed with the text. Original patterned paper-covered boards with blue cloth spine and tips, lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated endpapers. 20 x 13.5 cm. Very good in fair to good, price-clipped dust jacket. Lig…ht rubbing to extremities; a little tanning near the edges of the front board. Minor foxing to frontispiece with negligible impact on the image; foxing to title page as well, but none elsewhere. The jacket has a jagged 3-cm long chip to the center of the spine panel, several other chips with a slight impact on lettering, a long tear along the fold between the front panel and front flap, tissue repairs to verso, and sun-fading to the spine panel. FIRST EDITION. The subtitle on the dust jacket reads: "A Story in Jazz." The adventures of a free-spirited young woman, Ruby Burke, late of San Francisco, traveling in America and Europe, with delightful illustrations by Eldon Kelley (b. Denver, 1894). Kelley studied at the Art Students League in New York and was active in the 1920s and early 1930s as a book and magazine illustrator. Uncommon with the dust jacket in any condition.
