Description
No Jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Good+ binding is dark blue cloth over boards, orange lettering and design has some slight rub, orange lettering on the spine, some soiling, stains to the top edge and bottom edge of a few pages which does not effect text or illustrations, corner bumping, pictorial end papers. Ink writing dated Aug 1932 on the front free endpaper. Bottom and outside page edges are untrimmed. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Color frontispiece and seven color plates plus black-and-white illustrations by Kay Nielsen.
About the publisher:
Garden City Publishing Co. was originally established as a separate firm by Nelson Doubleday, Garden City’s books were primarily reprints of books first offered by Doubleday, printed from the original plates but on less expensive paper. It was named for the village of the same name on Long Island in which Doubleday was long headquartered (until 1986). Wikipedia
About the illustrator:
Kay Rasmus Nielsen (March 12, 1886 – June 21, 1957) was a Danish illustrator who was popular in the early 20th century, the “golden age of illustration” which lasted from when Daniel Vierge and other pioneers developed printing technology to the point that drawings and paintings could be reproduced with reasonable facility. He joined the ranks of Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac in enjoying the success of the gift books of the early 20th century. Nielsen is also known for his collaborations with Disney for whom he contributed many story sketches and illustrations. In 1914, Nielsen provided 25 color plates and more than 21 monotone images for the children’s collection East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The color images for both In Powder and Crinoline and East of the Sun and West of the Moon were reproduced by a 4-colour process, in contrast to many of the illustrations prepared by his contemporaries that characteristically utilized a traditional 3-colour process. Wikipedia
