My Book House: Six Volume Set
The Bookhouse for Children, 1920. Hardcover. Six volumes, complete: In the Nursery (1920), Up One Pair of Stairs (1920), Through Fairy Hall (1920), The Treasure Chest (1920), From the Tower Window (1921), and The Latch Key (1921). Early printings; not firsts. Black cloth with gilt titles and decoration, additional decoration tooled in blind, with illustration plates at front panels. Cloth shelf-worn, edgeworn, with scuffing and scratching to front illustration plates, slight fading to spines. Spines square. Bindings sound. Pages toned, with light staining, mostly as thumbprint markings at fore-edges; occasional foxing; light color transfer from illustrations throughout - no tissue guards, as issued. Interiors else clean, with the texts unmarked. A catch-all grab bag of short pieces for children, including fairy tales, excerpts from fiction and poetry, and essays. Contributors include Mother Goose, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Shakespeare, Lord Tennyson, Hans Christian Anderson, Christina Rossetti, William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter, William Blake, Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Walter de la Mare, John Milton, Sir Walter Scott, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Allan Poe, George MacDonald, Edmund Spenser, Alfred the Great, Washington Irving, Woodrow Wilson, Robert Burns, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, John Keats, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, and many others. This is a multiple-item set, which, due to its size and weight, may require additional postage to ship. Photographs available upon request. Used: Good. Item #BBS-2014901
Price: $150.00