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New York: Cupples and Leon, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1922, First Edition. Hardcover, blue cloth with pictorial onlay. 121 pp. 8 color plates, decorative endpapers and b&w in-text illustrations. Very Good, no dust jacket. Slight bowing to the front board; extremities bumped; thin band of sunning along the left side of the cover image. Previous owner's gift inscription on the front pastedown; offsetting on title page from the frontis; occasional faint finger smudge to the margins; sound binding. An attractive copy of this children's classic, with illustrations by Johnny Gruelle, the creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy.
Man in the Moon Stories Told Over the Radio-Phone by Lawrence, Josephine; Gruelle, Johnny (illus) - 1922
by Lawrence, Josephine; Gruelle, Johnny (illus)
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Man in the Moon Stories Told Over the Radio-Phone
by Lawrence, Josephine; Gruelle, Johnny (illus)
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
New York: Cupple & Leon, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. good. First edition. Navy blue cloth lettered in gilt and with tipped on color illustration of the Man in the Moon speaking to two litle children via a "radio-phone". Color illustrated endpapers. 121 pp. Color plates as wells as line drawings in the text by Johnny Gruelle. A good to very good example, some scratching to the cover illustration and with some spotting to the cloth on the gilt title lettering. Pencil child's ownership infpormation in the appropriate area on front pastedown. Front hinge starting but text block still firm, bit of fingering and a small taer to the title page.
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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - good
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Cupple & Leon
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1922
- Keywords children, juvenile, moon, fairy tales, fantasy
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Man in the Moon Stories Told Over The Radio-Phone
by Lawrence, Josephine; Gruelle, Johnny (illus.)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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$200.00
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MAN IN THE MOON STORIES TOLD OVER THE RADIO-PHONE
by Lawrence, Josephine; Gruelle, Johnny
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- first
- Condition
- Used - Near fine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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$550.00
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New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1922. Near fine.. First edition of this charming collection of new and classic children's stories as told by the Man in the Moon, with the help of radiophone technology, a beautiful copy. Radiophones were more commonly known as crystal radios, and they were some of the earliest portable radio devices. Crystal radios could only facilitate one-way communication, hence the format of the Man in the Moon telling these stories. 8.5'' x 6.5''. Original blue publisher's cloth binding with color pictorial paste-on. Color pictorial endpapers of the man in the moon looking down on a town. Illustrated by Gruelle with full-page color frontispiece with seven full-page color plates and numerous black-and-white in-text illustrations throughout. 121, [1] pages. Owner leaf filled out in ink, dated 1923. Light bumping to spine ends, gilt on spine slightly faded, else quite beautiful: hinges firm, cloth bright.
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Man in the Moon Stories Told Over The Radio - Phone.
by LAWRENCE, Josephine. GRUELLE, Johnny (illus.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Some light use to cloth; but a very attractive, tight and sound copy in a lightly worn illustrated jacket with several internal
- Edition
- First edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
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Rochester, New York, United States
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$850.00
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New York:: Cupples & Leon Company,, [1922].. First edition.. publisher's cloth with applied color illustration on front panel, in dust jacket.. Some light use to cloth; but a very attractive, tight and sound copy in a lightly worn illustrated jacket with several internal tape repairs to short tears, andone coin-sized and several other tiny chips.. 8vo,. Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle.. Ink gift inscription in supplied printed space for the same on front pastedown.
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$850.00