Stuart Chaplin (6 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Used: Very Good. 1st ed. VG, hd & hl sl. Worn, DJ, chipped, torn, creased, scuffed, 484pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, x,484pp, illustrated, edges browning, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper rubbed and edges slightly frayed.

First edition. Scarce. A beautiful book, with gilt and black-stamped lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Brown cloth-covered boards, 7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 384 pp., b/w illustrations (frontispiece plate; 26 other plates; other illustrations in text). Very good (modest edgewear; focal, mild rubbing; gilt bright; modest spine slant; a little dust soiling, top edge of book block; gift inscription in neat pencil script, front free endpaper; with the exception of a few minor stains, pages are clean; a couple short edge tears; binding in good shape). Defects described in detail --- a nice copy. Multiple stories with girls as the central characters: Jennie of Swan's (Annie Sawyer Downs); The Assistant (Mary Hartwell Catherwood); Noblesse Oblige (Nora Perry); Our Venture (Jane Andrews); A Brave Baby (Sara E. Wiltse); How Naomi Flooded the Bog (Stuart Chaplin); A Modern Kate Barlass (Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey); Kate Oxford's One Talent (Nora Perry); Little True Blue (Mrs. Lucia Chase Bell); The Story of a Good Little Mother (Mrs. Lucy Gibbons Morse); Dolly's Last Night (Emily Huntington Miller); Bessie's Story (Frank H. Converse); Henrietta's Heroism (M.E.W.S.); Fayette's Ride (Clara E. Guernsey); The Story of a Dress (Nora Perry); The Little Jade Lizard (M.E.W.S.); Molly Crowde's Ride (Mrs. Frances A. Humphrey); Anna Albitz of Birkendorf (Cynthia Saxton Turner); Her Little Life (Julia A. Eastman); Polly's Lion (David Ker). (3214028). …

Oblong folio. 16.2 x 9.75 in. [32 pp (unpaginated).], comic strips illustrated throughout. Colour-illustrated softcvers, cover art of Charlie Chaplin as Tramp on front cover (minor creasing, edgewear, closed tears neatly repaired at gutter margins, lower fore-edges, minor edgewear), still VG- copy, w/ very small bookseller's label in upper corner for Zinger's Books & Stationary, Astoria, OR on front cover. First edition of this very scarce anthology of the Charlie Chaplin's Comic Capers strip which was intended by Donohue to be used as a colouring book, with colour instructions at the beginning. this work was issued in Donohue in two different versions, one with 20 pp., and the other with 32 pp. Chicago-based Essanay studios lured Chaplin away from Keystone Film Co. by offering him an unprecedented $ 1250.00 per week, and he made over 14 silent films with them, including the famed "The Tramp." The studio closed in 1918, and Chaplin left to join the Mutual Film Corporation. Worldcat locates 4 copies (Duke - 30 pp.; Chicago Public - 16 pp.; MOMA & Motion Picture Academy - 20 pp.); See: Bruce C. Shults, Spotlight on the Pre-Popeye, Works of E.C. Segar (2010). …