Search Results: the year book of american authors by taylor ida scott

Raphael Tuck and Sons Co., Ltd.. Fair with no Dust Jacket. 1898. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Step by step the author and compiler of this little book has measured the days of the year. Not a page has been written without a thought of the possible reader, and an earnest desire to meet the daily needs of daily life. Such subjects have been touched upon as are especially dear to the American people. Prose and poetry for every day of the year. Colored plates have tissues but time has stuck some of those tissues to the plates (April, May, June, August, November. The first plate has several closed tears around the edges, about a half inch long. Ditto the plate for December except one of its tears is almost all the way across and has a chip in the lower corner. The plate for May (and it's tissue) are loose but present. July's tissue is not stuck to it and appears undamaged*. October's tissue is not stuck, but there is a "broken" bend in the lower front corner which is… Read More

UsedLikeNew. Remainder mark

UsedVeryGood. signs of little wear on the cover.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Raphael Tuck and Sons, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. C. Klein. Beautifully illustrated with full color chromolithographs (a vanished art form) by Klein, this anthology features works by the aforementioned and other notables. Original tan gilt designer cloth with gilt cover and spine floral decorations, top edge gilt, and tissue interleavings to plates. A clean, bright, unmarked copy. Scarce.

Hardback. New.