Search Results: american folk and fairy tales by field rachel

Scribner's, 1929. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Scribners, 1960. Very Good book in a Good dustjacket. Bookplate. Price-clipped.

Pages 302 pp.8vo. Green cloth binding. 1st ed. Illustrated with drawings and 8 color plates by Margaret Freeman, Some black ink stains to covers. Dust jacket soiled and chipped along bottom edge of front panel & spine. In good condition, better than it sounds.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1968. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Freeman, Margaret. The author of the beloved girls' "Hitty" books here offers a selection of 21 favorite children's stories drawn from a wide swath of American folk culture, including native American Indian tales, "Negro" animal tales (Uncle Remus), legendary lumberjack stories (Paul Bunyan), & tales from the Louisiana bijou, southern mountain stories, & New England. In 302 pages, with 70 illustrations throughout by Margaret Freeman, who also did the DJ design. First published in 1929, this is a 1968 printing. Hardcover 8vo has deep green cloth-covered boards embossed with a black archer design & lettering to front & spine. Though it is an Ex-Lib copy, with the usual stamps & markings, tape residue to endpapers, condition is VG: very clean & bright, binding strong & straight, front hinge starting, pages creamy white with… Read More

New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Cloth, xvi, 302 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. PRESENTATION-ASSOCIATION COPY. Signed by the author Rachel Field, with a personalized inscription to Frank Linderman, thanking him for three contributions to the book, in the Indian Legends section. The book subsequently belonged to one of his daughters, Wilda, whose name & address is penned on the preceding front free endpaper. A very good copy, age toning. Illustrated with drawings by Margaret Freeman. CONTENTS: INDIAN LEGENDS: Why chipmunk's back is striped, by Frank B. Linderman; Falling star, by George Bird Grinnell; Stealing the springtime, by Frank B. Linderman; Old-Man and the thunder-birds, by Frank B. Linderman; Origin of the medicine pipe, by George Bird Grinnell; Why the weasel is white, by Frank B. Linderman; Boy and his sister Journal of American folklore; Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving; NEGRO STORIES: Miss Cow falls a victim to Mr. Rabbit; Brother Rabbit and… Read More

C. Scribner's Sons. Collectible - Acceptable. 1929 copyrt. date but code M-11.57(V), 1957 reprint.. Ex-library w/white lettering on spine, pocket to front pastedown, stamp and blindstamp to acknowledgments page and to p29. Green cloth w/black lettering. Some mottling to covers and light edgewear. Interior is clean and sound, does not appear to have been circulated very often. Dust jacket is edgeworn and soiled, price clipped. Some light water splashes to dj spine.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Illustrated by Margaret Freeman. Gift inscription, some stains on the front board, age-toning in the text, a good copy without dustwrapper.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. See photos for condition details. Hardcover, bluish green cloth boards show only minor spot on the back bit of fading to the spine top edge of the front. Edges and corners show very light bumps/wear. The internal binding is good and text pages are tight. No signatures, no bookplates, no library markings etc. Pages are clean but there is some light foxing around the frontispiece.

New York: Junior Literary Guild and Julian Messner, 1929. Red cloth with black, a nice copy. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Freeman, Margaret. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: SCRIBNER, 1929. ASSUMED FIRST. . Hardcover. Fine/NoNE. FREEMAN MARGARET. A BEAUTIFUL COPY BOOK STATES 1929 ON TITLE AND COPYRIGHT PAGES NO OTHER DATES MENTIONED CLEAN SOLID BINDING AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY MARGARET FREEMAN BOUND IN GREEN WITH PERFECT BLACK LETTERING VERY LIGHT SMALL PENCIL MARKING ON FFEP OTHERWISE NO APPARENT FLAWS

New York: Scribner's. Original green cloth. Color frontispiece. Bookplate affixed with white cloth circles, some foxing, Very Good. No Dust Jacket. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1929.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 302p octavo, illustrated. A very good copy in green cloth. Inscribed/signed by Field. Spine sunned