Author: SYLVESTER, CHARLES H.
Title: Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (Volume Three Only, of 10)
Description: Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909. Hardcover. Volume three only, of ten. An illustrated collection of classic stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales suitable for reading by children. The stories were borrowed from notable works of literature by such authors as Lewis Carroll, Daniel Defoe, Hans Christian Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, and many others. With a color frontis illustration of Aladdin, plus numerous black & white illustrations scattered through the text and on gloss plates. The series of ten books was edited by Charles H. Sylvester and originally included an eleventh volume, in the form of a guide to the series. --- In light green buckram cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling & decorations in gilt on darker green blocks. TEG (top edge gilt), with brown pictorial endpapers. --- With whitish discoloration to covers along the top edges, else an intact, sturdy and unmarked copy. (NOTE: The plate bearing the frontis illustration had worked loose and has been tipped back in.); Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, 496 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Juvenile and Children's
Title: Journeys Through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading, Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (Volume Three Only, of 10)
Description: Chicago: Bellows-Reeve Company, 1909. Hardcover. Volume three only, of ten. An illustrated collection of classic stories, nursery rhymes and fairy tales suitable for reading by children. The stories were borrowed from notable works of literature by such authors as Lewis Carroll, Daniel Defoe, Hans Christian Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, and many others. With a color frontis illustration of Aladdin, plus numerous black & white illustrations scattered through the text and on gloss plates. The series of ten books was edited by Charles H. Sylvester and originally included an eleventh volume, in the form of a guide to the series. --- In light green buckram cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling & decorations in gilt on darker green blocks. TEG (top edge gilt), with brown pictorial endpapers. --- With whitish discoloration to covers along the top edges, else an intact, sturdy and unmarked copy. (NOTE: The plate bearing the frontis illustration had worked loose and has been tipped back in.); Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; viii, 496 pages. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Juvenile and Children's
Price: US$ 19.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88578
- Book number: 88578