Quoks (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover. Brown paper over boards with colorful full page pastedown on the front cover. Plain brown on the back with a pencil scribble. The whole book has been professionally restored, with new spine in natural buckram. Original boards preserved. New inner hinges a perfect match for the original, with Alphabet printed endpapers in place. The whole book has been taken apart, weak points repaired, resewn, rebacked with new headbands, and put back together as strong and good as new. 62 numbered pages (plus 2 more). 32 plates, of which 6 are in color. A couple small closed tears in the margins (including a 3 inch tear at the top of the title page) repaired with Japanese paper, a few smudges from long-ago dusty fingers. Binding tight & secure. A strange and attractive book. Measures 9.25 x 12 inches. Please email with questions; We'd be happy to send photos.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1924. 4to. Original red cloth with large onlaid pictorial plate to upper board, pictorial alphabet endpapers; pp. [iv], 5-62 + [ii]; with 6 fine, and glorious, detailed coloured plates and a plethora of black-and-white images and decorations throughout; a near fine copy, both internally and externally, with a small bruise to top fore-corner of upper board and a small, and neat, gift inscription, dated 1931, to half-title.First U.S. edition. An extravagant fantasy, wonderfully produced: "Now you shall hear about the funny little Quoks and Uncle Billy and Bumpy who lived on Cookie Island and Daddy Spider and John Beetle and his son and the big Whale and the wonderful Quok bird and what happened to them all" (Preface).John Penry Hyde "Luxor" Price (1874-1950) was an American illustrator of only about half a dozen books who was born in Cardiff, Wales. Emigrating in 1893 he became personal secretary to James Gregory McLoughlin who was a railway official and heir to the McLoughlin publishing empire. Price was self-taught and specialised in fantasy maps. His first published work, "All Mother Goose Panorama", was very well received and he went on to create "Quoks", a book of funny little people, to entertain his son.