The Kingdom of the Pearl
by Leonard Rosenthal; Edmund Dulac [illus.]
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Brentano's, 1925. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Brentano's, [1925]. First U.S. Trade Edition, printed in a run of 675 copies, of which this is #312. Quarto. 151 pp. 10 color plates by Dulac, mounted on white art paper, framed with gray-green lines, with tissue guards printed at top with black letterpress. Dust jacket of tan paper printed in lavender with geometric seaweed design. Half white cloth with grey papered boards, stamped in silver with design of stylized waves and sea shells, spine stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt; geometric seaweed endpapers.
Dust jacket chipped with several short closed tears and rubbed along edges with some unfortunate dampstaining along spine, and a longer 5" tear to front joint starting at bottom edge. Large dampstain to bottom quarter of back board extending up along fore-edge, with some runs and ripples to paper and outward bowing toward fore-edge. Boards otherwise lightly edgeworn with exposure to bottom edge near corners. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown, a few other stray bookseller pencil marks, but otherwise pages clean and unmarked.
One of Dulac's most vibrant works, and as one contemporary reviewer noted, his illustrations were, "rich in decorative forms and jewel-like colours, bringing out the beauty of minute things by the use of color and graceful line."
[Hughey 54e].
Dust jacket chipped with several short closed tears and rubbed along edges with some unfortunate dampstaining along spine, and a longer 5" tear to front joint starting at bottom edge. Large dampstain to bottom quarter of back board extending up along fore-edge, with some runs and ripples to paper and outward bowing toward fore-edge. Boards otherwise lightly edgeworn with exposure to bottom edge near corners. Binding is sound. Bookseller ticket to front pastedown, a few other stray bookseller pencil marks, but otherwise pages clean and unmarked.
One of Dulac's most vibrant works, and as one contemporary reviewer noted, his illustrations were, "rich in decorative forms and jewel-like colours, bringing out the beauty of minute things by the use of color and graceful line."
[Hughey 54e].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11521
- Title
- The Kingdom of the Pearl
- Author
- Leonard Rosenthal; Edmund Dulac [illus.]
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Brentano's
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
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