Real Story Book by Wadsworth, Wallace C - 1927

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1927. 136 pp. 31 x 25 cm. Green cloth covered boards with gitl titling to spine and illustrated plate on front; illustrated throughout in color. Rubbing, bumping, and some wear to spine ends and corners of boards. Some rubbing and light scuffing to illustrated plate on front. Foxing and age toning to edges of text block. Some closed tears to tail edge of a handful of the pages, mostly short, but two measure 12 and 14 cm in length. Some mild age toning to interior with a few mild stains. The face of a character on page 128 has been effaced, with a hole worn through the page. Binding sound. . Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Price, Margaret Evans.

Rand McNally & Company. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. (Children's Stories, Juvenile Fiction) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Green cloth hardcover. Rand McNally & Company, 1927. Good condition. Some fading and tearing on the edges, a small tear at the base of spine. Well used.

Rand McNally & Company, 1930. Hardcover. Good. Early printing with slip attached at title page stating that Epaminondas by Sara Cone Bryant was included by mistake and will be absent from future editions, good + oversized hardcover (no dust jacket) shows bit of storage bending to covers, soil and small stains to covers, sticker at front pastedown, short inscription at front endpaper small edge tears to pages at half title and contents pages, bit of wear along hinges and some other light trace wear. 136 pages with color illustrations by Margaret Evans Price. Still a solid copy of this collection of popular tales for children including Peter Rabbit, Gingerbread Man, Little Black Sambo, Pied Piper, Little Red Hen and of course many others.

New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1947. 2nd . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Price, Margaret Evans. 110pp.; HB blue w/gilt-pic.cover; rubbed w/wear; spine sunned; PONft.pastedwn.; some lt.tanning w/clean,tight pgs. Retold stories. "In the days of "once upon a time when pigs spoke rhyme" most of the stories in this book were already well known." illus.

Rand McNally & Company, 1927-01-01. 1st. hardcover. Used - Good. 9x6x1. As pictured. Name or gift inscription inside book. Some wear. Very readable copy.

Chicago / New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1927. First edition. Hardcover book bound in the publisher's original green cloth with a pictorial panel affixed to the front cover. 31 cm. With an introduction by Charles Madison Curry and color illustrations by Margaret Evans Price throughout. Contains "Little Black Sambo" and "Epaminondas". In very good plus condition. Small price written in red pencil to the upper edge of the front loose end and half title pages. No other ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight. Interior pages toned at their extremities. A few leaves show short, closed tears and/or creased corners. Light edge wear/bumping, soiling, staining to the covers.

NY: Rand McNally & Company, 1927. First edition.. Hardcover. Good. Price, Margaret Evans. NY: Rand McNally & Company, 1927. First edition.. Good. No dust jacket.. Price, Margaret Evans. 136 p. Includes illustrations. Color Illustrations; 4to 11"-13" tall Hardcover, kelly green linen w/ large full color pastedown, gilt spine. Good, worn corners and very slight inner page edge browning. First edition, first printing. Scuffs to pastedown and cover, Edges, Bottom of spine and corners are frayed. Previous onwers name in pencil on illustrated endpaper. Several torn pieces from the bottom of pages. The only story effected is the story Epaminondas a has a piece of the story torn from the page 121/122. All together an outstanding copy of the very difficult true first edition of twenty classic children"s tales including LITTLE BLACK SAMBO, PETER RABBIT, THE GINGERBREAD MAN, THE THREE BEARS, THE THREE LITTLE PIGS, HENNY PENNY, THE PIED PIPER all beautifully illustrated in color with many full page pictures,… Read More

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1927 Book. Illus. by Margaret Evans Price. Very Good. Hardcover. First ( No Additional printings). 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original green cloth with large colour pictorial pastedown on boards..About a dozen small edge tears have been repaired - two of them affecting illustrations. Except for a bumped top right cover corner, there is no other damage. Page edges have barely begun to tan. Adorable four-colour drawings, many full-page, make this a book to be appreciated by all ages. In addition to illustrating many other children's books, Price assisted her husband, Irving Price, and his partners in the founding of the Fisher-Price Company. Twenty classic children's stories on 136 pp..

Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1927 "A" on copyright page. Library binding. 136 numbered pp; HB. Pages: clean, ivory, tight, green decorative eps, 1 lg and 1 sm color frontis; a.e. lt tanned, several sm-med closed tears of pp. Cover: textured green, large color paster w/blue titles front, dull gilt titles spine; modest shelfwear, extremities worn, crnrs bumped. 20 classic children's stories, including Peter Rabbit, the Gingerbread Man, The Three Bears, Little Black Sambo, Henny Penny, more. Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb, others. Nearly every page is illustrated with wonderful color artwork, 10+ full page illustrations. A lovely book.