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Henry Holt and Co, 1926-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

Henry Holt and Co. Trade Paperback. Very Good/None. Pencil name on endpaper- all color illustrations present

London: Humphrey Milford and Oxford University Press, 1929. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 160 pages. Features text by Isidora Newman. Includes 15 tipped in color plates and some black and white illustrations as well. An about very good copy in paper covered boards with a cloth spine with wear to the edges of the boards and some other light wear. Internally a clean copy. No dust jacket or slipcase.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1926. Copyright 1926, most likely first American edition. With 15 tipped on Art Nouveau color plates by Pogany and additional full page line drawings. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, decorative endpapers, 10.25" tall, 196 pages, no dustjacket, possibly as issued. Light shelf soil and edge rubbing to the covers, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages with a 1928 gift notation, child's bookplate and name inside the front cover, child's name written on verso of front free endpaper. Plates are in very good condition, with the top edges of a few of the backing pages a little wavy (probably from the process used to tip on the plates), portions of three of the line drawings neatly colored in with pastel colored crayons, tiny tears to the edges of two leaves, chipping to the inner margin of one leaf that does not affect the text. . Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1926. Very Good -. New York: Oxford University Press, [1926?]. First Edition. Quarto; modern cloth-backed boards with original paper covers laid down, retaining original pictorial endpapers, gilt-lettered calf spine label, bespoke cloth slipcase; viii,[4],160pp.; tipped in color frontispiece and fourteen (14) leaves of plates, fifteen (15) half-tone illus. throughout text, each hand-colored and initialed by the author, as are pictorial endpapers. Binding rather crudely updated, front board a bit warped and rear cover soiled with dampstain along spine, textblock rather brittle and very slightly toned, long closed tear along gutter edge of pp. 57/8 not approaching text; overall a Good or better copy, annotated on front free endpaper in contemporary green ink: "Isidora Newman / Hand colored by the Author." It should be noted that hand-colored illustrations by Newman are not unique to this copy.

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1929. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 8.5". Willy Pogany. A delightful volume of fairy tales and fables, brightly illustrated throughout. With fourteen colour plates, frontispiece, and further illustrations. Collated, complete.From American poet and artist Isidora Newman, this is a collection of twenty-four fairy tales and fables, many of which seek to explain the origins of certain varieties of flowers. Some of the tales reflect the African American and Creole cultures of New Orleans, where she was born and raised.This work is delightfully and brightly illustrated by prolific Hungarian artist Willy Pogany. Often described as creating work in an Art Nouveau style, Pogany's preferences were for dreamy and warm pastel scenes created with watercolours and oils. Many works of this type are present within this volume. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Significant shelf wear to board perimeters. Discolouration to spine,… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 1926. Hardcover. vg. Willy Pogany. 8vo. 196pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Some scuffing and staining to boards. Illustrated endpapers. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Decorated title page. illustrated with tipped-in full page color reproductions of paintings and full page b/w drawings by Willy Pogany. In overall very good condition.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1926. First edition. 4to, purple floral patterned cloth with green cloth spine, in the original dust jacket, 196 pp, illustrations by Pogany include 15 tipped in color plates. Scarce in jacket. An attractive copy with toning to pages, offsetting to endpapers, bit of discoloration to edges of cloth, dust jacket with flap corners trimmed, toned, foxed, large chip and long closed tear to head of spine, mild damp stain to lower spine.

London:: Humphrey Milford,, no date [ca. 1926] . publisher's cloth-backed decorated boards in slipcase.. A bright, near fine copy in a dust-soiled slipcase with some rubbing at corners.. Small folio,. Illustrated from tipped-in color plates by Willy Pogany..

London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, c1926. Cloth. Very Good. 11" by 8.5". Willy Pogany. A brightly illustrated volume of fantasy children's tales by Isidora Newman, enclosed in the original bright slipcase. With fourteen colour plates, frontispiece, and further illustrations. Collated, complete.From American poet and artist Isidora Newman, this is a collection of twenty-four fairy tales and fables, many of which seek to explain the origins of certain varieties of flowers. Some of the tales reflect the African American and Creole cultures of New Orleans, where she was born and raised.This work is delightfully and brightly illustrated by prolific Hungarian artist Willy Pogany. Often described as creating work in an Art Nouveau style, Pogany's preferences were for dreamy and warm pastel scenes created with watercolours and oils. Many works of this type are present within this volume.Enclosed in the original bright slipcase. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding and paper… Read More