Author: HUTCHINSON, FREDERICK WINTHROP
Title: The Men Who Found America
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1909. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by E. Roscoe Shrader and Herbert Moore. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. This book is difficult to find with the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with 8 full page, full-color plates. Each text page includes illustrated decorations by Edwin I. Prittie. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and chips missing (including a rather largish chip from the top rear edge) and hsa some generalized rubbing and ground-in dirt. "There is no country like unto this beautiful bourn of our children. Here are the dim, magic forests, the enchanted castgles, the deep, hidden caves, the secret tree-hollows, where dwell sparros and fairies and lost little children. In this land the princess is ever young and ever beautiful; the bold Prince Charming slays always the wicked, watchful dragon; the fierce Ogre, with his one malevolent eye forever eats the tender children at his ravenous evening meal" (what this has to do with American history is beyond me - that's just what the preface says).. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Illustrated editions Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson America American History Founding of America Explorers Exploration Exploration and Travel Illustrated editions
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Title: The Men Who Found America
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1909. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by E. Roscoe Shrader and Herbert Moore. Color Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. This book is difficult to find with the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. Illustrated with 8 full page, full-color plates. Each text page includes illustrated decorations by Edwin I. Prittie. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and chips missing (including a rather largish chip from the top rear edge) and hsa some generalized rubbing and ground-in dirt. "There is no country like unto this beautiful bourn of our children. Here are the dim, magic forests, the enchanted castgles, the deep, hidden caves, the secret tree-hollows, where dwell sparros and fairies and lost little children. In this land the princess is ever young and ever beautiful; the bold Prince Charming slays always the wicked, watchful dragon; the fierce Ogre, with his one malevolent eye forever eats the tender children at his ravenous evening meal" (what this has to do with American history is beyond me - that's just what the preface says).. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: Illustrated editions Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson America American History Founding of America Explorers Exploration Exploration and Travel Illustrated editions
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 39613
- Book number: 39613
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