Abbott plaisted (140 Ergebnisse)

201pp, (6 x 8 inches), four color plates by Elenore Plaisted Abbott, three b&w drawings by Edward Shenton. Only Good condition, hard cover, no dust jacket. Edges and corners of boards are worn, frayed. But the laid-on illustration is clean and clear. (It matches the color frontis.) Owner's small bookplate on front pastedown, als…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Clean brown cloth boards with illustrated cover in brown, blue and green. Blue lettering on spine with blue and green parrot decoration. Light surface wear to spine ends, no fraying or wear-through. Foxing to some pages, including title page - most pages are clean, with four clean full p…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. Less common title. Illustrated. Boards with heavy wear and soiling; staining to rear panel; end pages torn and hinges weak; pages dusty with light damp staining to the lower thirds. Fair only. Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861 - 1920) was a journalist, historian and adventure writer. E. Plaisted A…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition with matching dates on the title and copyright pages. Brown cloth with dark brown lettering/border, 79 pages collecting 7 stories set in New England and told, in part, in dialect, ti…

Illustrated Cloth. Zustand: G+. No Jacket. 305 pp, b/w illustrations, the top of page edges is gilded, the contents are clean and solid, the front endpaper has a bookplate, the covers are lightly worn and soiled, the lower right cover corner is bumped and lightly affects the first several pages, the front cover is nicely decorat…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket (as published). 316pp. The classic adventure story of shipwreck and survival. Although this copy is not dated the publisher, style and form of title would suggest that this is a 1926 edition. Decorated cloth covered, boards. A clean and tidy copy, some shelf wear to the edges of the boards and…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Contains 32 classic stories in 489 pages, with a lovely watercolor frontispiece by British children's book illustrator Elenore Plaisted Abbott (1875-1935) & vintage endpapers featuring a girl, boy, & castle. No publication date, but research places it c. 1920, this being a Grosset &…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Sixth printing, July 8, 1901. A wealthy man with no children is found murdered and his will burned. Gently handled, spine a bit darkened. Hinges beginning to crack but still square and solid. Inscribed on the front pastedown "To Dora from Ed. Aug. 16th, 1904.". Abbott, E. Plaisted (illu…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth boards with black printing and a pasted on illustration by Elenore Plaisted Abbott on the front cover. Six tipped-in color illustrations by Abbott plus a frontispiece. The front cover illustration has a small area of scratches, and the spine is somewhat faded and has a bit of shelf…