Boys and Girls of Bookland
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. 1923. Edition: First Edition., Binding: Full teal cloth boards. Upper lettered in gilt with pictorial illustration mounted on. Spine lettered in gilt. With publisher’s dust jacket in Mylar.
, Notes: Nora Archibald Smith (1859–1934) was an American writer of children's literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jessie Willcox Smith (1863 – 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American Illustration, considered "one of the greatest pure illustrators.” A contributor to books and magazines during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Smith illustrated stories and articles for clients such as Century, Collier’s, Leslie’s Weekly, Harper’s, McClure’s, Scribners, and Good Housekeeping, that latter of which included a long-running Mother Goose series of illustrations and also the creation of all of the Good Housekeeping covers from December 1917 to 1933. Among the more than 60 books that Smith illustrated were Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Evangeline, and Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses.
, Size: Quarto. (310 x 250 mm), Illustration: Very good example. Illustrated with colour plates. , Pages: 100 pp., Category: Book Literature;. Dust jacket rubbed, some tears to edges, piece lacking from front cover top edge. Ownership inked on front pastedown. Item #B6996
Price: $125.00