Verna Grisier Mccully (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. [642] - 656pp, illustrated, ads, printed wraps, decorated in blue and orange, with blue lettering, spine split about half its length, dark spots reminiscent of foxing noted at top and bottom margins, and also occasionally at text, bottom corner of page 650 torn away affecting a few words of text of a sentence about a proposed French garden village retreat for artists and writers, mailing address stamped at margin, horizontal folds noted apparently from mailing, cover relatively clean and bright. Subtitled, A Weekly Illustrated Magazine For All The Family / The Best Of American Life In Fiction, Fact, And Comment. Issues were published each Thursday and included regular features such as The Children's Page, The Boys' Page, The Girls' Page, and The Family Page, as well as general news of the day, current events, bits of humor, and helpful hints for home life. Cost was inexpensive, at $.10 per issue, or $2.50 for a yearly subscription. Contents of the present issue include chapter one of The Mysterious Tutor, by Blake, Idle Autumn, Part II: Mitchell's Route, by West, The Amateur Musician, by Surette, The Best Coon Dog In The World, by Johnson, chapter seven of Treasure Swamp, by Pollock, Pansy Learns The 9's, by Toal, How Silas Q. Helped The Chipmunk Family, by Bryning, The Surprise, by O'Neal, and light poetry from E. Turner, N. Turner, and McCully. Also includes a small photograph portrait of S. P. Gilbert, Jr., who was Agent General of Reparations under the Dawes plan. B. J. Rosenmeyer, Harold Sichel (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Fourth Printing. 148 pp., gray boards with embossed figure on front board. Pastedowns starting to yellow, PO name inside. DJ somewhat soiled with considerable chipping along edges plus two 2" tears. Text is clean and unmarked. From the inside flap: "This manual of handwork and things to do has won distinction in its field, because the ideas and patterns are 'workable' and because the principles and methods set forth in it are sound. Teahers and leaders of children from kindergarten through junior-high ages are finding it a treasure house of activities for all seasons of the year."; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Illustrated by McCully, Verna Grisier (illustrator).…