Maud and Miska Petersham, Illustrators
Olive Beauore Miller, editor
Tales Told in Holland
Chicago: Bookhouse For Children: 1948 reprint.. 4to (8X11 in) 191 pps. Red cloth boards with pasted circular inset. Gold stamped titles. Decorated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated by the great Petershams.
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The Story Book of Trains |
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Maude and Miska Petersham, Illustrators
John C. Winston Co. Chicago et al. Nine of the famous "Petersham Series" Story Books, each measuring 8X8 inches and comprising 32 pages more or less lavishly illustrated by this prolific husband and wife team. Pages are un-numbered. All are as pictured here, in original dust jackets and all are unclipped, the original sixty cent price showing. All were published in the early 1930s and are first editions. A rare find for any serious collector. Books are in Very Good to Fine condition. No markings. A few small chips bottom of three or four pages in one volume. Wrinkles in another. Owner name on FEP in another. Otherwise FINE in Very Good to Fine. Inventory # 7599 Price $225.00
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Tabori, Lena (editor); Fried, Natasha Tabori (editor)
A Little Box of Books : Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes, Songs
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Welcome Enterprises, Incorporated, 2002 3 books in slipcase, each 24mo (5X5 inches) Alternate text and full page illustrations by well-known illustrators . Indicated first edition. Price sticker on slipcase. Fine in Fine Inventory $ 6099 Price $35.00
Maud and Miska Petersham, Illustrators
Nursery Friends From France
Chicago: My Bookhouse, 1927. 191 pages, endpapers illustrated with map of France, Covers in grayblue with paste-up of a drawing based on a painting by Francois Drouais hanging in the Louvre.
