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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn and stained, bookplate scars on . front endpapers, hinges tender, foxing, pages toned.. 1910. Later Printing. Hardcover. Blue cloth spine with paper-covered boards with color illustration mounted to front boards. Six color plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green accompany this collection of poems for children. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 50 pages .

Paperback / softback. New.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Quarter cloth hard cover with pictorial paper over boards. Prior owner's initials inked on lower front board, otherwise unmarked. Corners rubbed through. Some creasing to pages at corners, moderate hand soiling at margins. Good reading copy. 49pp., six full page color plate illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Green, Elizabeth Shippen. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1912. Hardcover. good. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. 8vo. 50pp. Color plate mounted to front cover and 6 color plates in text with tissue guards by Elizabeth Shippen Green.There is a stain to the front cover, and some crease marks. Edgewear to head of spine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. Book. Illus. by Green, Elizabeth Shippen. Very Good +. Hardcover. Very Good +book in a good dust jacket..

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Elizabeth Shippen Green. 50 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green throughout. Quarter cloth hard cover with pictorial paper over boards. Prior owner's signature (dated 1916) and address label on front flyleaf. Tissue cover on frontispiece illustration. .A bit of soil on covers, and moisture stain on top edge. Binding still tight, in very good condition for its age. Charming old book of children's poetry. Record # 372805

Paperback / softback. New.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1912. 1st Edition (Unstated). Hardcover. Light foxing throughout the book. Rubbing wear to covers. Tissue guard was torn off. Every other page is included and in good condition.; Color Illustrations; 50 pages .

Hardback. New.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Early printing. Hardcover. Very good. Greene, Elizabeth Shippen. Large 8vo, green cloth over brown boards printed in green with color cover plate and 6 additional inside color plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green.Neat owner's name and date (1916) on front free endpaper. Lovely clean interior, light edgewear to boards and spine edges else fine.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,. Very Good. 1911. Hardcover. Six color plates (all present and in excellent condition). A later printing. Offsetting to endpapers, else very good in blue and tan boards - color illustration on front board. No dust jacket. .

Houghton Mifflin Co., 1908. Hardcover. very good+. Tan boards with color pictorial inlay to front cover. Six full page color illustrations with tissue guards by Elizabeth Shippen Greene. Ms. Greene was a member of the Brandywine school. Light wear at bottom of spine. Nice tight copy.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. No DJ.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Six color plates plus color pictorial onlay at front board. Clean and lovely plates. Overall, a handsome copy of this increasingly scarce volume. Light shelf/edge wear, tips through, minor fraying at head/heel, light toning/soiling to boards, frontispiece/tissueguard/titlepage tipped back in but shows unusual wear at fore-edge (clearly had been loose for some period), else tight, bright and unmarred. Quarterbound, blue cloth spine, beige paper boards, blue/black ink lettering, color pictorial onlay, frontispiece, tissueguard. 8vo. 50pp. Illus. (color plates).

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co, 1908. First edition. With 6 illustrations in color by Elizabeth Shippen Greene, decorated initials begin each chapter and with a pictorially decorated title page in colours. Tall 8vo, publisher's original blue cloth over brown boards, the upper cover lettered in blue and with a charming colour illustration paste-down tipped on to the central area. ix, 49 pp. A very nice copy with only mild overall mellowing or evidence of age, internally, tight and well preserved. FIRST EDITION WITH IDYLLIC FULL PAGE COLOUR ILLUSTRATIONS BY ELIZABETH SHIPPEN GREENE. "Of the poems of child-life brought together in this book many are wholly new; some are reprinted from "The Singing Leaves," published in 1903; and others have appeared in Harper's Monthly Magazine..."- JPM

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Greene, Elizabeth Shippen. 1st ptg. Large 8vo, green cloth over brown boards printed in green with color cover plate and 6 additional inside color plates by Elizabeth Shippen Green. 1908 Gift inscription, Boston bookseller's label on front free endpaper plus small address label and date stamp (1915) on front pastedown. Lovely clean interior, light edgewear to boards and spine edges.

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. Hardcoer. Very Good. . Second ed. SIGNED by author with a nice hand-written letter laid in at front. Minor shelf wear. Front pictorial board is clean and vibrant. Pages clean, binding sturdy.