Lucile Blanch (8 results)

#75 of a first edition limited to 500 copies (per publisher's statement upon copyright page and rear colophon). [10], 38 pages. Hardcover: H 20.75cm x L 14cm. Edgeworn gray dust jacket with some chipping and light staining, long tear and associated creasing at rear panel's bottom left, some toning particularly along spine with 3.5cm tear at heel. Light green cloth, slender staining and slight wear along top board edges and spine head, bottom board corners worn. Non-authorial ink inscription dated for Christmas 1943 on front free endpaper. A very good- copy in a good+ dust jacket. Features 33 poems by Johan Egilsrud with three b/w illustrations (including frontispiece) by Lucile Blanch, Adolph Dehn [Adolf Dehn], and Wanda Gag.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 36 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. Limited to 500 copies. Illustrations by Lucile Blanch, Adolf Dehn, and Wanda Gág. In fine condition except for clippings of other poems pasted to both end papers. Lucile Blanch; Adolf Dehn; Wanda Gág (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Spine faded a little. Blue linen; "I want to tell you," says the author in beginning "The Winter Nightingale," "that it was Christmas Eve and that the country in which this story is laid is far up in the north, so far north that you cannot even find it on the map. Denmark? Sweden? Norway? Or perhaps Finland? No, none of these, and yet a little piece of each of them". And then she goes on to tell the story of Leni, the winter nightingale (but really a little girl with dark curls and a golden voice) who wanted more than anything else in the world to learn singing; of the mysterious stranger who heard her and told her she would be a great singer some day; of her decision to run away from home in order to study in the big city; of her sisters' despair at losing her; and of the brave boy, Karel, and his valiant dog, Bror, who went to find her. ; B&W Illustrations; 6.25" x 8.5"; 224 pages Good+ hardcover with white stamped letters and pictures jacket. Illustrated by Lucile Blanch (illustrator).…

Cloth Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First American Edition. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in white, fading along edges and spine, gift inscription; color pictorial dust jacket with long tear to front panel repaired with tape, chipping and other light wear, price-clipped. A story set in a Scandinavian-like country about a girl who runs away to learn to sing and the orphan boy who follows after her. Illustrated in b&w throughout. The book was awarded the Prix Jeunesse in France. Size: 8vo. Lucile Blanch (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First US Edition. New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1937. First American edition [1937]. Externally fair, internally very good, dustjacket very good. The story of a young girl in the far northlands who wanted nothing more than to learn singing, and who ran away from home. Illustrated in black and white. Blue cloth printed in white, 224 pages, printed dustjacket. Internally very good, with good hinges, sound text block, very clean pages free from names or other markings. Old and well-dried spotting to the rear cover and rear endpapers - pages not at all affected. and no musty odor. The covers also have some uneven fading, particularly to the spine. The mylar protected dustjacket is priceclipped and has some age-toning nearest the spine, some light edgewear, a few tiny chips with almost no paper loss. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 36 pages. First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. This copy is signed by Egilsrud on the first title page. Iluustrated by Lucile Blanch, Adolf Dehn & Wanda Gag. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with slight wear to the corners. A beautiful copy. Blanch, Lucile, Dehn, Adolf & Gag, Wanda (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. Winner of the Prix Jeunesse. In a Mylar dj cover. A superb copy, clean and unmarked.

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: good. First edition. "The story of Leni, the winter nightingale (but really a little girl with dark curls and a golden voice) who wanted more than anything else in the world to learn singing; of the mysterious stranger who heard her and told her she would be a great singer some day; of her decision to run away from home in order to study in the big city; of her sisters' despair at losing her; and of the brave boy, Karel, and his valiant dog, Bror, who went to find her." Tight binding. Blue boards, sunned around edges and spine with silver-colored lettering on spine. Dust jacket has original price of $2.00 on front flap. Dust jacket has chips around edges and spine and is torn along most of the length of the spine. Protected in Brodart jacket cover. Size: 8vo (8" to 9"). 224 pp. Lucile Blanch (illustrator).…