Search Results: the jingle of a jap by thurston clara bell

Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., 1908. Illustrated. Thick, uncut pages. Mild toning at edges. Cover is soiled and darkened with some edgewear. Gift inscription on front endpaper.. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 7"x9".

H. M. Caldwell Co., New York, c. 1906. 32 pp. coloured illustrations throughout, coloured plate onlaid to upper board, some pages unopened at top edge, some spine damage, else good copy in papered boards.. With the signature of C. H. (M?) Drake Brockman on front end-paper.

Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., 1906. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. Unpaginated, with 23 chapters, each a page or two, with lovely color illustrations throughout. Beautiful silk fabric boards with minor soilage and then wear in lower corner. Missing the three dimensional doll that was attached to front board originally. Pages clean. Slight shake to hinge.

Hardcover. Good. New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co. 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 x 9". Unpaginated. Good. No dust jacket. Moderate rubbing to the tips of the boards. Paper pulled from the front free endpaper. Grift inscription in ink, sticker, and notes in pencil on the verso of the front free endpaper. The text appears unmarked. The front and rear hinges are cracked. The rest of the binding is shaken and split in areas, but it is still intact.

Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., 1908. First edition, 1908. Delightfully illustrated in color and printed on one side only of paper that is still unopened at the top edge (one exception where someone opened one page carefully, leaving two blanks between the printed pages). Tan cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover, decorated endpapers, about sixty pages. Some light cover soil, spine head chipped, good hinges, some rubbing to upper edge of book, clean pages with some very light finger soil to a few pages, no names or other markings. Story of a Japanese doll with unrequited love for a blonde, blue-eyed Caucasian doll. The Japanese doll finds happiness when he returns home to Japan to be with his own kind, rather than with in a land "where folks were so benighted" (unenlightened). The book first seems to support stereotypes and then exposes them for what they really are. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: H.M. Caldwell, 1906. Cloth has navy blue background with colorful Japanese flower motifs. Kimono-clad lady is kneeling on the terrace of a pagoda. Open fan and a crane in graceful flight adorn the covers as well. This copy lacks the porcelain doll which should be attached to the front cover. Printed on one side only on folded paper. A beautiful, bright copy.. First Edition. Color Illustrated Cloth.. Nearly Fine/No Jacket.. Square Octavo.

Boston, H.M. Caldwell Co., (1906).. Edition unknown circa 1906 ( first published undated in 1906), 278 x 180 mm, 9 x 7 inches, open weave cloth with floral design in colours and GILT, paper title label to upper cover, colour illustrated endpapers, no pagination (32 pages). Lovely coloured frontispiece of blond doll in blue dress with little Japanese doll kneeling at her feet, colour illustrated title page, 4 full page coloured illustrations, small coloured illustrations and decorations throughout, all printed on coated paper, 1 side only. The Japanese doll studies an A.B.C. primer so he can woo the Parisian doll he loves, but he is rejected for a soldier doll and sails back to Japan. LACKING SMALL DOLL originally attached to upper cover at top right corner (2 minute holes just showing). Upper cover and spine slightly faded, contents very nice, neat inscription on front endpaper dated (erroneously) 1903. A very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST.… Read More

Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co, 1906. Hardcover. Very Good. Small quarto. Illustrated cloth with printed paper label. Penciled gift inscription dated in 1906. A little foxing and some smudging on the label, about very good, lacking the bisque doll intended to be attached.

Boston: H. M Caldwell Co., 1906. Book. Illus. by Illustrated By Clara Bell Thurston. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pictorial cloth covers with paste-down title panel on front cover, with 5 inch kimono clad Ichimatsu doll attached to front cover, text printed on clay-coated stock on double fold pages, text consists of 23 chapters with numerous illustrations in color by the author, very light foxing to endpapers, some loss of covering, (gofun?) at right side of dolls face, some damage to the dolls hands, one leg of doll is missing, original slipcase is not present. Ichimatsu ningyos (dolls) named after Kabuki actor, Sanogawa Ichimatsu of the Edo period famous for playing female rolls. He became a great favorite among women and ningyos such as this were made in his image. This book is seldom found with the original doll attached. The story is a childrens rhyme telling of a Japanese doll who is enamored of a stuffy blond doll and is harshly rejected. A product… Read More

Boston: H.M. Caldwell, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Small quarto. Unpaginated. Uncut. Original Oriental-inspired fabric covered boards with paper label pasted on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Decorative title-page. Exquisite story of a Japanese doll with unrequited love for a blonde, blue-eyed Caucasian doll. The Japanese doll finds happiness when it returns home to Japan to be with its own kind, rather than with in a land "where folks were so benighted" (unenlightened). This work is profusely illustrated throughout with numerous color drawings by the author. Minor age-wear on binding with spine slightly sunned. Minor age-toning along paper margin. Binding and interior in overall good+ to very good condition.

Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., 1906. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good Plus . With both the scarce three dimensional doll attached to the binding and the original box. 8vo. 23 by 18 cm. Unpaginated, with 23 chapters, each a page or two, with lovely color illustrations throughout. Condition: one side of box lid -- lower side -- detached, with closed tearing by other edges. Soil on the paper pastedown of the box. Doll on front cover is beheaded -- we have the head, though, and this can be inconspicuously repaired. Fabric of doll's kimono slightly frayed, worn-looking.

Boston: H. M. Caldwell, 1908. Near fine in original box. The box has been taped and re-taped at all the corners, but present none-the-less. Unpaged. Bound French-fold fashion on coated paper with preliminaries and 23 verses, every page beautifully illustrated in color. Bound in original pictorial color cloth with paper cover label and fully clothed bisque doll attached to upper cover. Rare with the doll still present and attached to the cover.

Boston: H. M. Caldwell Co., 1906. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine. With both the scarce three dimensional doll attached to the binding and the original box. 8vo. 23 by 18 cm. Unpaginated, with 23 chapters, each a page or two, with lovely color illustrations throughout. Beautiful silk fabric boards with minor soilage and then wear in lower corner. Light wear to the fabric binding and book. The doll itself isin a superb state of preservation. The box lid has a moderate level of soiling on the paper pastedown and along the edges, with two side edges repaired. Still, the box is an extraordinary survivor.

Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., [1906]. Tall 8vo. 7.2 x 9 in. [32 pp (unpaginated).], printed in full colour on double-fold leaves. Colour frontisp., colour plates, colour-illustrations & borders throughout. Colour-illustrated cretonne publisher’s cloth, printed paper label on front cover, Japanese bisque Ichimatsu doll attached to front cover as issued dressed in green and red-coloured kimono (very minor wear to the head), w/ original colour-illustrated publisher’s box, cover art repeats title page illustration, figures in traditional Japanese dress in the borders & sides, printed label at 1 end of box lid (minor edgewear, slight rubbing, very slight foxing), still a NF/NF copy, w/ ownership markings on ffep., and stamp on bottom of box for the Raphael Weill & Co. White House Department Store in San Francisco. First edition of this curious and scarce illustrated children’s book in verse describing the unrequited love of a Japanese Ichimatsu doll for a lovely Parisian wax doll with flowing golden… Read More