PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW; VER BECK, FRANK

The Arkansaw Bear a Tale of Fanciful Adventure

Illustrated by Frank Ver Beck. Good; Hardcover; R. H. Russell; First Edition; 1898; 118 pages, cloth-backed cover; brownish paper covered boards with illustration of fiddle-playing bear on front and back; dozens of black & white sketches. First edition identified by Same Date on title and copyright pages. Cover moderately worn on edges. Binding acceptable, but a bit loose; front endpaper beginning to crack at top of seam. Signs of page-handling as fore-edges of some pages are a bit soiled. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall.

Mount Hope Books

Book number: 25543

Catalogue: Children's Literature

PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW & VER-BECK, FRANK

The Dumpies

Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1st 1897. Hardback. Good condition. Oblong format, pictorial boards. Humourous b/w illustrations throughout. Edges worn. Covers scuffed. Contents very good. [S]

Stella & Rose's Books

Book number: 228685

Keywords: CHILDRENS

PAINE, ALBERT BIGELOW ILLUSTRATED BY VER BECK, FRANK

The Dumpies

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., Circa 1897. Hardback. Good condition. Oblong format. Brown cloth spine. Pictorial front board. B/w illustrations. The tale of the Dumpies who live in the Land of the Low Mountains - whatever abides with them - grows shorter and shorter each year! Story in verse. Boards worn at edges and grubby. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. A few faint margin marks but contents mainly clean. A nice copy of a humourous book.

Stella & Rose's Books

Book number: 710512

Keywords: CHILDRENS Ver Beck, Frank