Hawthorne Hildegarde Virginia Frances Sterrett (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good-fair copy in blue cloth with gilt titles and full-color illustration on front cover. Rubbing and edge-wear, dust-staining to edge of page block, toning near edges of pages, gift inscription. Front hinge is repaired with white tape. Two inch tear from top edge of first illustrated endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Heavy external wear. Ugly but readable. Very serviceable copy!.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett (illustrator). First Edition. Quarto thick black cloth. Gilt lettering to the front. A large color plate mounted to the front. With sixteen color illustrations by Sterrett, all with titled tissue overlays. There is wear along the upper and lower cover edges with the boards showing at several areas. Boards showing at the corners. Wear to the spine ends. The original gilt to the spine is worn away. A few bumps to the upper page edges. The cover plate is rubbed and does have some wear along the upper edge. There is some foxing affecting many of the plates and tissue overlays. Some of this is quite light. A very tight copy with fine hinges. A name and date to the lower, front free endpaper. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 308 pages.

Hardback, approx 11.25 x 9 inches. Black cloth with colour plate to front and decorative gilt lettering to front and spine. Green pictorial endpapers. In good condition. Some wear to cover; cloth split on edges and corners, spine lettering darkened, glue repairs to hinges. A couple of neat previous owners inscriptions and bookplate to endpaper ?Childrens Donated Book, Carnegie Public Library, Kokomo, Indiana.? Minor tear to edge of front endpaper. A couple of minor handling marks else pages all very clean and tight. Plates all tissue guarded. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 308pp. With 16 colour plates and B&W illustrations and decorations by Virginia Frances Sterrett. Contains: Merchant & The Genie, Three Calendars, Ali Baba, Sindbad the Sailor, Aladdin.

Hardcover. Condition: good. no jacket. First Edition, no additional pri. NOT an ex library book. Book with black cloth binding, paste on plate on cover. Wear on corners. Print on spine is completely rubbed. Imprint of title on spine only. Illustrated endpapers. Gift inscription that Grandmother purchased the book many years ago hoping to give it to our grandchildren. 1976 date. 308 pages with 16 color plates. Book is now protected with a mylar cut to size jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Virginia Frances Sterrett (illustrator). "Arabian Nights". Edited by Hildegarde Hawthorne. Illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett. Published by the Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia, 1928. Measures 8.75" x 11.25", 308 pages. With an inscription on the front leaf to Elaine Baumann, the recipient of the "First Award" for a submission of a Fairy Tale called "Little Bird" from The Association of Professional Women Writers, Niagara Falls, NY 1938. The book is in good condition. Wear and soiling to the covers with worn edges and exposed corners. The lettering on the spine is illegible with frayed edges and cloth loss at half of the front joint. The mull is exposed at the bottom third of the front hinge. The interior is gently toned and largely clean with a few smudges. The color plates are clear and vibrant. The binding is sound. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(J8-43).

Hardcover. Condition: g+ to vg. First edition. Large Quarto. 308pp., 16 color plates, incl. frontispiece, with printed tissue guards. Original black cloth with color plate mounted to cover, framed in gilt and gilt lettering on cover and spine. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece. Illustrated title page. Historiated headpieces. Beautifully illustrated with 16 color plates and 20 in-text b/w drawings by Virginia Frances Sterrett. Binding with light wear along edges, small chips, and spine lightly sunned. Endpapers with some foxing. Half inch closed tear in tissue guard of frontispiece, near gutter. Some water-staining on contents page. Small dealer sticker on inside back cover. Binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition.

First Edition. ARABIAN NIGHTS, The Penn Publishing Company, 1928, first edition, slight wear to the fore edge corner tips, else a tight vg+ copy with full color pictorial paste-on to the front cover. Marvelously illustrated with 16 full color, full page tissue guarded plates and 20 black & white illustrations with in the text by Virginia Sterrett.

Condition: Near fine. First edition thus, illustrated by Sterrett, with selections from the THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS magnificently interpreted by Sterrett in what was to be her final completed commission before her untimely death in 1931. 11'' x 8.75''. Original gilt-lettered black cloth, pictorial paste-on. Green pictorial endpapers. Illustrated with 16 color plates and 20 black and white drawings by Sterrett. 308 pages. Ink owner name to second flyleaf. Light edgewear to boards; spine sunned, with tarnish to lettering (as typical). Leaves gently toned. An unusually well preserved copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Blackie and Son, Limited. London, UK. 1910. 352 pgs. Illustrated. Bound in red cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (boards are scuffed and worn). Foxing present throughout the text block. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: a thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. Full of mischief, valour, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. This volume contains the most famous and representative stories including 'Aladdin or, the Wonderful Lamp', 'Sinbad the Sailor' and 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Virginia Frances Sterrett (illustrator). First Edition. Black cloth titled in gilt with color pastedown, spine gilt flaked in a few places, gift inscription, else Near Fine; original box is present, but in pieces. Select tales from 1001 Arabian Nights illustrated with 16 tissue-guarded color plates and 20 b&w vignettes. Virginia Sterrett's story is somewhat tragic. She was only able to complete one year of training at the Art Institute of Chicago before dropping out to help care for her ailing mother. Then she was diagnosed wtih tuberculosis at the age of 19, when she also received her first commission from Penn Publishing; to illustrate Old French Fairy Tales. Her illustrations for Arabian Nights represent her final commission before her death at the age of 31. Her work is fanciful, detailed and often compared to that of Kay Nielsen. Rarely found in such beautiful condition and with the original box. Size: Large Thick 4to.