Puck in Pasture: Verses and Decorations by Elizabeth Mackinstry
by MACKINSTRY, Elizabeth
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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DEDICATION COPY
MACKINSTRY, Elizabeth. Puck in Pasture. Verse and Decorations by...8vo, original cloth backed decorated boards (corners rubbed), 2 pictorial labels, pp. 79, [3]. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925.
First Edition. Mackinstry (1878-1956), an American poet, illustrator, and sculptor, lived in Paris from 1892-1901, during which time she studied with the sculptor Auguste Rodin. She had a successful career turning out illustrations for seveal New York publishing houses, illustrating books, and doing costume designs. In her later years she lived in Lenox, Massachusetts, near Emily Howland Leeming Lyman (1871-1951), a friend from Buffalo, who was a relative of Rachel Field. This is the dedication copy, inscribed: "To Emily Howland Lyman/ a jais/ Here/s your book dear/ Elizabeth Mackinstry." Mackinstry has tipped-in a 3 5/8 x 3 3/4" original pen-and-ink drawing of two young girls in long dresses standing close to each other. Spine a little faded, and spine label little chipped at blank edges top and bottom.
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- Bookseller
- Howard S. Mott, Inc (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1131
- Title
- Puck in Pasture
- Author
- MACKINSTRY, Elizabeth
- Illustrator
- Elizabeth Mackinstry
- Format/Binding
- Decorated boards
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1925
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dedication Copy
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