Search Results: the twelve dancing princesses and other by quiller couch arthur

Calla Editions, 2012. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dover Publications, Incorporated. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Calla Editions, 2012-09-19. hardcover. Used: Good.

George Doran, 1920. Hardcover. Acceptable. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Junior Library / Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: George H. Doran Co. Book. Illus. by Kay Nielsen. Very Good. Decorative Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Light violet cloth, lettered and illus. in black. Cloth on both covers is moderately rubbed, with lettering and illustration thus a bit indistinct, otherwise only modest shelf wear. xv,17-244 pp., illus. w/ (16) full page color plates (bound in, not tipped in), also b&w illus. in text, decorative borders. Firm binding, clean interior. No statement of edition or printing, no colophon (as per typical method of designation w/ Doran), but clearly a vintage edition - not, we suspect, a first, though we have found other copies identical to ours listed as firsts. Scarce..

Calla Editions, 2012-09-19. hardcover. Like New. 8x1x12. Nielsen, Kay. As new clean tight and bright oversized and overweight. Please email for photos.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Undated, circa 1923. Early printing, without the publisher's insignia on the copyright page. Collection of fairy tales with sixteen stunning full page (not tipped in) color plates by Kay Nielsen in Art Nouveau style. Purple pictorial cloth printed in dark gray, decorative endpapers, no dustjacket. Some shelfwear, mainly to the corners and spine ends, spine still purple but less vivid than the covers, good hinges, sound text block, light chipping to the far bottom margin of the plate on page 169, pages clean, no names or other markings. The stories include: Minon-Minette, Felicia or The Pot of Pinks, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Rosanie or The Inconstant Prince, The Man Who Never Laughed, and John and the Ghosts.. First US Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

George H. Doran, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth boards with gilt decoration & lettering to front cover & spine, illustrated endpapers, 16 tipped-in color plates, 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Front hinge a bit wobbly, spine moderately toned, but generally a nice copy with fine plates.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto. Purple cloth. 16 tipped-in plates Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. Neat gift inscription, small stains on rear board, spine and adjacent area a bit sunned, else very good lacking dust jacket.

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1923. Very Good/Very Good. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1923]. Reprint. Octavo. 244 pp. 16 color plates by Nielsen. Illustrated dust jacket. Blue boards stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Jacket cleanly separated down front joint, with a couple small closed tears along edges, shallow chips at spine ends, and a bit of light toning to spine. Boards are square with very light shelfwear and nudging at head and tail. Top of text block a bit smudged. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur. The Twelve Dancing Princesses. And Other Fairy Tales Retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Illustrated by Kay Neilsen. NY: George H. Doran [1923]. 8vo, 244pp. Blue boards pictorially stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers; 16 hand-tipped color plates. A remarkably bright copy with minute rubbing to spine ends, tiny dark spot above publisher's imprint on spine (barely noticeable) in original pictorial dust jacket (slight wear to upper spine end, a tad sunned).
First US trade edition under this title (having been previously issued in 1913 under the title In Powder and Crinoline), having roman numeral 1 after title on copyright page and a new preface by Quiller-Couch. Kay Neilsen's brilliant color illustrations complement noted folklorist Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's masterful retellings of 6 fairy tales. Nielsen's color plates are vibrant and lush.