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Verlag: Riverside Press, on title page/c. 1877; musical scores by Charles Moulton, boards and endpapers resemble looking up into the corner of a room, walls of aqua on cream floral paper with gold border, on the boards, the "ceiling" opens to a black starry night sky with red titles, on the endpapers, to a blue sky with red flowers and gold butterflies and birds flying down into the room, Japanese influence. Who designed these?; tissue guarded frontis, 81 illustrations; boards 6.5x8.25"; 236 pp + 2 pp catalogue., New York Hurd and Houghton, Boston H. O. Houghton and Company, Cambridge, 1878
Anbieter: Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks, Monmouth, OR, USA
. (illustrator). CONDITION: Fair; neat owner stamp on plain flyleaf, coloured layer chipped off on hinges and much of spine, edges worn to card, straight, tight, tight hinges but paper cracked in rear; pages clean except for margin soil on three younger children's stories. Juvenile hardback. Children's stories, poems, and songs embedded in the daily life of a comfortable, cultured, and unassuming New England family. From the first Bodley series, very popular in their day. Scudder (1838 - 1902) was closely connected to Houghton for most of his career and for nine years the editor of the Atlantic Monthly. He arranged Houghton's publications with H. C. Andersen. "So, Lucy, . you can imagine yourself going to Andersen and asking 'Shall I have another story?' and then perhaps another book will drop into your lap." ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. .