Ostrander Willie (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated paper over boards with cloth spine, cover shows moderate wear and rubbing, some loss on the corners and spine ends. Pages shaken and lightly tanned.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Illustrated children's book with hard paper boards with modest wear. No date but gift gift inscription to a child is dated 25/90 suggesting a Christmas gift in 1890. Willie Ostrander and T. R. Kennedy (illustrator). Book.

Raphael Tuck. London, No date, circa 1890. Slim 12 page gift book, sewn binding, with illustrated chromolitho and gilt card covers. All pages illustrated with chromolithos. Gift presentation left blank. All edges of pages gilt. The story of a little Christian Chinese Boy. A couple of spots of foxing to front blank endpapers otherwise a remarkably clean and fresh copy of a very scarce item. I have never seen a Raphael Tuck Children's gift book in such fine condition. This is a rare opportunity to buy one of these volumes, printed in Nuremburg, which is virtually as clean as the day it was published.…

London n.d. ca. [1890], Raphael Tuck & Sons. Stiff color covers, very sharp, clean copy, all edge gilt,co-illustrator T.R. Kennedy, [14] pages text, each page color illustrated + the covers, 11.8 x 16.8 cm., in original blank dust jacket. The color was done in chromlithography, in a charming and tender style. * This example is quite clean, sharp and nearly the way it was issued some 125 years ago. *.…