Cricket and the Emperor's Son by Elizabeth Coatsworth - 1965

The Macmillan Company, 1932. Hardcover. Good/None. The pages are clean and unmarked with the exception of foxing on the endpapers and flyleaves and markings on the back endpaper. The cover has some soiling, bumping, and discoloration.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1965. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. Palmer, Juliette. 1st ptg., 8vo, full black "cloth," with drawings by Juliette Palmer. A variant of the 10001 Nights, wherein a young silk merchant finds a magic slip of paper with new stories every day. When he reads them to the emperor's ailing son, the boy recovers from his mysterious ailment. Fine in lightly edgeworn, unclipped dj, bookplate on front pastedown under jacket flap and Vroman's bookstore sticker above it.

The MacMillan Company, 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1932. First Edition. 112 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth with green lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece, and other illustrations by Weda Yap throughout. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, and text and illustrations remain clear. Binding is firm. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper, and reverse of frontispiece. Boards have noticeable shelf-wear, with moderate corner bumping and scuffing to edges. Spine and edges are moderately sunned, with noticeable crushing and slight splitting to ends. Black markings overall. Book has a minor forward lean.

New York: W.W.Norton and Co., 1965. First American edition. Very Good/good. A wonderful story for young people about a poor apprentice boy in Japan called Cricket, and how his fortunes change. Brown boards with writing to spine and small picture embossed on front. DJ quite torn and price clipped.Book itself nice tight binding and clean pages.DJ designed byUrsula Suess. First Edition AB8

NY: Norton, 1962. Book. Illus. by Juliette Palmer. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition, Review Copy. Hard Cover. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Review slip has been glued to front free endpaper, glue has caused some yellowing to endpaper and in gutter..

Kingswood: The World's Work, 1962. 128pp. Green cloth boards. Book and d/w soundly wrapped in plastic. Edges lightly browned and foxed. Spine slanted. Endpapers have tape stains. Usual library markings. D/W not clipped. Wrapper has minor abrasions at ends of spine.. New & Revised Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Illus. by Juliette Palmer. 8vo. Ex-Library.

Surrey: The World's Work, 1962. New and revised edition. Paper backed pictorial boards in matt matching dustwrapper; 128pp; b/w ills. Corners bumped and worn; light offsetting tanning to endpapers. Price clipped (square cut) dustwrapper is rubbed, nicked and chipped to edges with ragged spine ends, sunning to spine and outer edges. [519: N2] . Hard Cover. Good/Fair. Illus. by PALMER, Juliette.

NY: Macmillan, 1932. Orange cloth, pictorial endpapers. Light cover soil, else clean tight bright copy: VG/ VG dj with small edge tears. 8vo. Illustrated in black and white by Weda Yap. 1st edition,