Introduction Blanche Weekes (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Fitz, Jr. (illustrator). This is the 1928 printing, NOT a modern reprint. The pictorial cloth binding shows no wear, no distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving (book will stand upright on its own). Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The dust jacket shows light edge wear, short edge tears, no sun fading. DJ in an archival protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Good -. Fitz, John Jr. (illustrator). Tight binding, clean interior. Wonderful illustrated endpapers and colored frontis. Black and white illustrations throughout as well as one more colored illustration. Tan boards with a drawing of a village and a little boy on a horse, corners are worn slightly; mild soiling to front board. DJ is preserved in mylar, has chipping to spine and flap corners and shelf rubbing on both sides. Interior is clean and unmarked except for one scribbled word on the second endpaper. 95 pages including a glossary.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. John Fitz, Jr. (illustrator). Pictorial blue cloth binding. Light wear to the binding. No distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. gift inscription inside the front cover. No odor. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Fitz Jr. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Aesop's Fables. Arranged with an introduction by Blanche E. Weekes. Illustrated by John Fitz Jr. Philadelphia, Chicago, and Toronto: The John C. Winston Company, 1928. First edition thus, in The Child's Garden of Charming Books series. A beautifully illustrated early 20th-century juvenile edition of the classic fables, containing over 150 stories including The Lion and the Mouse, The Tortoise and the Eagle, and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. Features a bright color frontispiece and numerous in-text line drawings by John Fitz Jr., with decorative illustrated endpapers depicting The Lion and the Mouse, The Dog and His Reflection, and The Tortoise and the Hare. Bound in tan cloth pictorially stamped in black and orange, showing a dapper fox bowing to a lamb. A charming example of Winston's art deco house style. Condition: Very Good. Light wear and rubbing to pictorial cloth, spine ends slightly frayed; binding tight. Ownership name ('Marion Howard, 1929') on front endpaper in pencil; mild toning to paper as typical. A clean, attractive copy with vivid frontispiece and crisp interior illustrations. Edition/Printing: Copyright 1928, The John C. Winston Company. No later printings indicated. First Winston printing of the Weekes/Fitz illustrated edition. Blanche Ethel Weekes (b.1883) was an educator and author associated with Teachers College, Columbia University, where she specialized in children's literature and pedagogy. She published The Influence of Meaning on Children's Choices of Poetry (1929) and adapted or arranged several classic works for young readers. Her introduction and editorial arrangement of Aesop's Fables for John C. Winston Co. (1928) reflect her educational approach to moral storytelling and literary appreciation for children. John Fitz Jr. was an American illustrator active during the late 1920s, best known for his work with the John C. Winston Company's Child's Garden of Charming Books series. His drawings, noted for their crisp linework and lively characterizations, appeared in Aesop's Fables, The Little Lame Prince, A Dog of Flanders, and Rip Van Winkle. Though little is recorded about his life, Fitz's style reflects the transitional period between art-nouveau and early art-deco illustration in American juvenile publishing.

Condition: Poor. No dust jacket. Poor cover with tears, scuffs and marks. Knocks to corners of cover. Tanning/foxing to textblock. Inscription on front end page. Some marks on pages but cobtents still good.