Playfellows: First Edition (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Usual wear along edges and bumps to corners, illustrated, many cutesy tales about talking dogs, cats, sheep, squirrels--they all have a verbal tale to tell, with b/w illustration, women authors. Good only.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Essays on traditional Japanese theater and their cultural significance, including translated excerpts of Japanese plays, and accompanied by twelve superb color plates by Japanese artists. Original beige cloth with green dragon designs, gilt top foreedge and tissue interleavings. Expert repairs to small bottom corner spine tear and to the top edge of the spine; otherwise very good with clean and unmarked text block and tight binding. Scarce.…

Soft cover. 1st Edition. 19.5cm, first edition, iv,25p., frontis with captioned tissue guard & 11 plates, illustrated stiff card wraps, very good to fine (hmds) ~ "The Road to Fairyland" with photographic studies of childrens' statuettes.

Good condition. Spine tips and cover corners are worn. Color front cover is soiled around the edges. Possibly missing front fly leaf. One inch tear at bottom edge of frontispiece. About 175 pages. Illustrated. 4to size.

12mo. 26 pp. Photo frontisp., w/ original printed tissue guard, 11 photo plates. Publisher's boards, w/ golden illustrated d.j. on thick paper stock, bronze lettering, yapp fore-edges (minor chipping & wear head & foot of spine, fore-edges), still VG/VG- copy, from the library of Prof. Marvin Nathan. First edition of this charming fairy tale celebrating the bronze statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which featured at its' opening as well an allegorical fairy tale silent film. Stern Perry (1877-1956) was class poet and founding member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority, wrote advertising for the John Wanamaker Department Store in New York, opened her own agency, and later married George Perry in Sept., 1906 after the Earthquake & Fire. She wrote several fictional novels, non-fiction accounts, was a suffragette, socialist, and Unitarian, and wrote two books on the art and sculpture of the PPIE.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. as pictured First edition good condition hard cover n0 dust jacket, heavy foxing throughout gently read clean, no owner marks , 306 pages Tan cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, yellow and green graphic illustration to front cover, 12 tissue-protected color plates by Japanese artists, 4 small b&w portraits.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 'Japanese Plays And Playfellows' ~By Osman Edwards, with 12 Coloured Plates by Japanese Artists; pub by William Heinemann 1901; 8vo, 318pps + 34pps of Heineman's list of books; bound in medium blue cloth with black lettering and designs on cover and spine; edges are uncut, some staining on covers, foxing on inside front and rear pps & other occasional pps, inside front hinge is cracked and is slightly weak; there is a pencil signature on an inside page; all 12 coloured plates are intact and are really quite exquisite. …

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and soiled. 210mm x 190mm (8" x 7"). [24pp]. Illustrated hardback board cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a Good Ex County Library Copy of this Book rebound in green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.New endpapers are inserted with sewn strengthening applied to the front and rear gutter hinge joins.There are several small round ink stamps to certain pages of text and top edges of the coloured plates and they number approx 25,plus further index stamps to the verso of the dedication page.Illustrated with 12 coloured plates by various Japanese artists.With 9 Chapters plus Index.Binding is firm with no hinge weakness,no loose leaves,faded stamps to the top and bottom edge of the book.Uncommon title with clean contents,some slight tanning to the page edges,8vo 306pp plus 30 page catalogue of Heinemann titles to the rear of the book.First Edition [1901].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Blue embossed cloth with gilt decoration, 4 colored plates, all edges gilt. A veryb attracttive copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. Very Good ++ With Just The Frontis Parting From The Binding , Presentation Plate From The Tasmanian Society For Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals On The Front Pastedown . Part 1 Pp 206 ( Cats) , Frontis And 11 Cat Plates . Part 2 Pp 197 ( Dogs) Frontis 11 Plates With Plate 112 Loose Introduction Page Parting Scarce First Edition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Presumed First Edition. Hardback. Small 8vo. pp 255, colour frontis and colour illustrated title page + 2 attractive colour plates. Handsome book with red and gilt blind patterned covers with small oval onset colour bouquet. Uncommon juvenile work entirely in dialogue form of Eva talking to her friends. No date (1862). Lacks front endpaper, slightly shaken otherwise vg+ with slight rubbing.…

Leather bound. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. A pair of children's stories inspired by the bronze statuary scattered about the grounds of the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. This is one of the dozen books issued by Paul Elder during the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition. 12mo: iv, 26 pp. with the frontispiece with captioned tissue guard and 11 full-page plates, all photogravures after photographs of sculpture by Edward Berge, Edith Woodman Burroughs, Edith Barretto Parsons, Bela Lyon Pratt, Caroline Everett Risque, Louis Saint Gaudens, and Janet Scudder. In the publisher's light brown pigskin binding, with brown-stamped ruled bands, vignette of a young boy on a pedestal [after "Wild Flower" sculpture by Edward Berge] surrounded by foliage, and titling. A remarkably fine example, with a few negligible scratches to the rear panel and just a hint of edgewear. Housed in the publisher's two-piece brown paper-covered box, with dark brown-stamped decorations matching the binding on the lid. Period previous owner's name and address to the bottom edge of the box. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 48mo. (approximately 3" x 3 3/4"). Canvas backed glazed chromolithographic pictorial boards. About fine. A lovely little book with four illustrations in color.

Six vols. 12mo. [144 pp (unpaginated)]. Each vol. w/ 4 colour chromolith plates. Colour chromolith boards, green linen backs (minor edgewear, slight scuffing to fore-edges, very minor wear to corners, slight pulling at staples), still a VG bright set. First editions of this charming and popular series of miniature books produced with the wonderful chromolith illustrations expected of Victorian Nister books printed in Nuremberg, Bavaria. The stories vividly portray the usual rosy cheeked children, playing with kittens, puppies, rabbits, and other pets.…