Search Results: floating island by parrish anne

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Light wear to the boards. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Ernest Benn Limited, 1930. Hardcover. Good. 1930. First Edition. 265 pages. No dust jacket. Purple cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages are mildly tanned with visible foxing, moderate tanning to endpapers. Mild cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to boards. Book has forward lean. Notable foxing to spine.

E.M. Hale and Company, 1930-01-01. Unknown Binding. Acceptable. in x in x in. This is a used book. It may contain highlighting/underlining and/or the book may show heavier signs of wear . It may also be ex-library or without dustjacket.

Cadmus Books Book. Illus. by Mr Doll. Very Good. Hardcover. In light green cloth. NOT ex-lib. Previous owner inscription with date of 1945. Slight browning to page edges. No jacket. .

Harper & Brothers, 1930-06-01. 9th. Hardcover. Acceptable. 8x6x1. Heavy wear. **Back cover missing** Front hinge broken. Still very serviceable copy!

Cadmus Books, 1930. hardcover. Good. there is fraying on the edges of the cover; there is wear, bumps and rubbing on the corners and edges; the inner pages are free of markings;

Harper & Brothers, 1930. 3rd Edition . Hardcover. Good-/No Jacket. Anne Parrish.

Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. 5th Edition. Hardcover. Pink cloth boards lightly rubbed, faded with loss at tips, spine just slightly slanted. Tightly bound, decorated endpapers. Early printing of this 1931 Newbery Honor book with twelve full page plates plus two-page color map of island. With elements of racial stereotypes, this title tells the story of a dollhouse and its inhabitants lost at sea who eventually end up on an island. "Dinah the Cook was jointed, but her head wouldn't turn. She was made of wood, painted black, with big whites to her eyes, and a red mouth as round as a berry." Dinah is also envious of Mrs. Doll's yellow hair, but in due course she admits that "I'm ashamed of wearing Mrs. Doll's wig. I always wanted to, but I haven't really enjoyed it. It just makes me feel blacker." ; MCF04431; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 265 pp .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Reprinted September 1949 . Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. The interior of the book is clean and tight. A former owner has written her name and address on the free front end paper, but there are no other marks, and just a few indications of previous use. The 13 black and white plates, and double-page coloured map are present. The black covers are also in very good condition, with no soiling and only minor wear showing at tips and corners. The red spine lettering is undamaged. The dust jacket, however, is only in Fair condition. It is corner clipped, and has three large nicks of paper missing on the front panel/spine. The attached scan should give a better idea of condition. The jacket is now in a protective mylar cover.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers; 3d Edition (1930). VII+265 pages. Profusely Illustrated by the Author. VeryGood Hardcover (Pink cloth with paste down Illustration in front Black spine title, Illustrated Endpapers, no dj). No Wear to the cover. Stain of light discoloration (about 1"x4") on the back board.Blackened namr of previous owner inside front cover. Strong binding and hinges. . 9.3"X7.0X1.25". beh47471.

NY and London: Harper & Brothers (1930). Stated Sixth Edition; small 4to.; black cloth covered boards with pictorial label paste-on and illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 265 pages; black and white illustrations and black and white illustrated glossy plates and frontispiece with tissue guard; book plate on front endpaper else a very good clean, tight copy in a price-clipped, edgeworn and sunned dust jacket.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harper & Row, 2030-01-01. hardcover. Good. 8x6x1. used hardcover copy age wear, tanning to pages , spine loose.

New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1930. 265 pages in good condition; edges a little yellowed. With 13 b/w plates and numerous sketches. The plate at page 86 is missing half of the fore-edge; does not affect the picture. Closed 2" tear on the top edge of pages 159-164. Illustrated endpapers. Pencil drawings on first 2 blank pages, inscription on the half-title page. Front hinge loose; binding intact. Pink, illustrated hardcovers with black titles. Covers faded, soiled and stained, corners bumped and a little frayed. While interior of book is good; overall, FAIR.. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Illus. by Parrish, Anne.

Beautiful fuchsia cloth boards with a full-page teal/fuchsia pastedown, are in very good condition with only a small blemish (upper left corner) and some smudges to the rear board. No edge wear to the boards or the spine. Corners show slight bumping and wear. There are some smudges to the pastedown and light rubbing around the edges. The spine is tight, boards are firmly attached with no cracking to the decorative map endpapers. Text block is solid. Age tanning throughout. Previous owner name on the book ownership page. Includes twelve beautiful black and white illustrations by the author and with sketches by Mr. Doll. The book was a Newbery runner-up. Some smudges to the interior pages but otherwise pages are in good condition with no markings, chips, or cracks.
Anne Parrish (1888 – 1957) was born into a family of artist – her father was Thomas Clarkson Parrish an etcher from Philadelphia, her mother (Anne Lodge) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, her younger brother was also… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

This is an early copy of "FLOATING ISLAND" by Anne Parrish. 1930 3rd edition (stated); Harper & Brothers; New York. The book is beautifully illustrated throughout with 12 full-page plates by Parrish, a 2-page color map of Floating Island, and in-text "sketches" by Mr. Doll. Illustrated end papers. The book tells the story of a China-doll family's shipwreck and their ensuing adventures on the Floating Island. It won the Newbery Medal in 1931.Condition:Some very light soiling on the covers and spine; sharp corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The pages are in terrific condition - clean with only a tiny, light stain spot on pages 98 and 99...no other issues found. Overall the book is in great shape.

New York: Harper & Brothers, [c. 1930 (1941)]. Tall 8vo. vii, [3], 265, [1] pp. Frontisp., 12 plates, 1 double-page colour map, illust. title, numerous text illustrations throughout. Black publisher’s cloth, red lettering on spine, colour plate mounted on front cover, illustrated endpapers (very minor dampstain upper fore-edge, very slight shelfwear, slight bumping), w/ d.j. cover art by Parris (chipping & tears head & foot of spine, minor tears), VG/G- copy. Ninth edition (D-Q code on verso of title), of this 1931 Newbery Honor title, set against the backdrop of a China-doll and doll house placed inside a box to be shipped off to young niece Elizabeth, who are shipwrecked and finally drift to an uninhabited tropical island together with their dollhouse. Scarce in original dustjacket.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishing Written and Illustrated by Anne Parrish, with Sketches by Mr. Doll. Fifth Edition. 265 pages; 8 pages have a small mark. 13 full-page b/w Plates, plus several b/w drawings within text. Detailed drawing sna text on endpapers. Black cloth, with full-page colour paste-on on front cover. Book is loose, corners bumped, top and bottom of spine rubbed. VG-.. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Illus. by Parrish, Anne.