New Idea Speaker(a Book of Original and Selected recitations) by Maude M. Jackson - 1901

Chicago, Il: By Author, 1901. Fair. 1901. Hardcover. Binding weak, with webbing showing, but still holding. Pages unmarked and only slightly aged, but worn at edges, and the first few are stained from cover bleeding. Ex-owner name. Plates (four color and several b&w) are fine. Red cloth cover with pastedown front illustration -- quite worn at edges and generally scuffed (including illustration). Titles (front and spine) are barely legible. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Chicago: Columbia Publishing House. Heavy dust soil, & wear to stamped cloth decorated boards & framed pictorial pastedown, fabric is worn through at the corner tips, book is disbound lacking spinestrip, missing front endpaper, sporadiac dust soil throughout text, embellished w/color plates; half-tone photos of children reciting, original & novel line drawings by special artists. Special instructions to parents & teachers for child culture, vocal & physical, for the proper training & development of children. 316 pp. . Poor. Hardcover. 1901.

Chicago, Il: By Author, 1901, 1901 Decorative Cloth. Good. First Edition. Childrens. illustrated, with color plates, color frontis portrait, and b/w by many artists, spine wear, short tear, 316 pgs. nice book.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good.

Philadelphia, PA.: J.H. Moore Co. Cover bumped, chipped on corners and frayed on spine with cover hanging on spine. Pages have age spots and rough edges. One page loose but still with book. No date given.. Hard Cover. Poor/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

J.H. Moore Co, 1901. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Front hinge starting to crack. Back hinge cracked. Gift inscription on front free page: Xmas to Lily from Gamma, 1901. Laid in is a paper hand made book mark with a person's name written on the back in cursive: Myrtle Catherine Rohrbough. Some staining to front cover. Color plates, one with nicks to bottom edge.

Maude M. Jackson, 1901. Large 8vo, pp. xx, 316. Illustrated with drawings and color photographs. Yellow cloth, stamped in black and gilt, with color photo on front. Front hinge starting tender, cover soiled and scuffed at edges, o/w VG.

Philadelphia: Elliott Publishing Co, 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Adapted for use in the school, church and home, with special instructions to parents and teachers how to give an entertainment, with a department of child culture, vocal and physical, for the proper training and development of children. Embellished with beautiful color plates, half-tone photographic portraits of children reciting, original and novel line drawings by special artists." [82] p., color frontispiece and 3 leaves of color illustrations: music, illustrations; 25 cm. Yellow-brown cloth with gilt-stamped cover title: New Idea Speaker for Children Arranged in Programs for Home, Schools, and Church. Color pastedown of girl posing on front cover, within green-and-gilt frame; additional green and gilt decoration on front cover. Sample gilt-stamped spine title on back cover. This is a salesman's sample or publisher's dummy. It contains the title page and table of contents, along with samples of the photographic illustrations of… Read More

UsedGood. 1901 Columbia House hardcover with fading gold letters on black cover; 1903 inscription inside front; no writing in text; binding is loosening but most pages intact