Brown Mrs Frederick (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. cover design by Catherine F. Meeks (illustrator). First Edition. Lincoln, Massachusetts: The Cottage Press 1990. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 1882063058 Oversize [about 10.5" x 8"] oblong pictorial wrappers, 152+ pages, illustrated [including maps], bibliography and resource maps, index. A very good with slight toning/fading to the spine and adjacent portion of the front cover which is also very lightly creased, contents tight and clean. See Photos bx 419.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Hardback copy in red cloth bevelled boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine, decorations to front boards, no dustjacket as issued. 16pp book advertisements to rear. 7 colour plates throughout. Not library copy, missing colour frontispiece, ink inscription to ffep dated 1881, wear to board and spine edges, few marks to pages. (47/5).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Helen S Tatham (illustrator). Scarce hardback in Good Plus condition. Decorative green cloth boards with gilt titles, corners bumped, edges lightly scuffed, minor surface marks and wear, 19 pages plus advertisements, all 8 plates called for present, minor marks and wear to the contents, binding tight but the frontispiece has torn to three-quarters of its length and is in danger of coming loose. A good example of a scarce title after 120 years. Free registered postage worldwide.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. Bound in chipped and worn tan boards with the colorful drawing of Margaret on her rocking horse on the front boards. . Very clean and tight throughout. With wear and chipping to the corners; edgewear to the extremities. Printed on heavy stock. With all 8 hand-coloured plates dated 1878. With a previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper: "Louise S. McDowell. from cousin Margaret. 1880." With 16 pages of ads for books published by Dutton (Griffith & Farran). A charming and somewhat uncommon first American edition of this tale. The First US edition of this title with 1880 inscription.

Condition: Good. Chromolith full page plates [8] by Helen S. Tatham (1848-1892) "by the sister of the author", with plates dated 1878. Quarto red cloth with black and gilt decoration on bevelled boards (some spotting, soiling/recased with spine repaired) 18pp printed on one side only except for the first text leaf which is printed on both sides. Final plate is mounted on the blank final page of the book followed only by the rear Endpapers. Endpapers were repaired at gutter when recased and inscription "Dorina Mary Carte from Frederic S. Donaldson 3rd Feb, 1880" [Dorina Mary Carte 1876-1969, daughter of Thomas Sampson Carte & Ellen Carte, Clerk in Holy Orders] to front free endpaper. A few signs of use but a charming collaboraion of illustrations and rhyming text by the two sisters. 4 volumes. Hardcover.