Treasury of Stories, Jingles, and Rhymes

Extended Description and Notes

MAUDE HUMPHREY : Treasury of Stories, Jingles, and Rhymes. Frederick A. Stokes, undated. Circa 1894. ILLUSTRATED BY MAUDE HUMPHREY. Written by Mary Rice Miller and Elisabeth S. Tucker. SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY. 242 pages. Maroon boards with gold titling and ornamentation. Good condition front paper paste-down label of a little girl wearing a red feather in her blue hat. Please see our photos. Used. Good/ No DJ. A solid copy with intact gutters. "Humphrey was one of the first great American women illustrators paving the way for Jessie Willcox Smith, Grace Drayton and the many other women illustrators of the early 20th century. Humphrey is also known for being film star HUMPHREY BOGART'S mother (and in fact she used her son as a model for many of her pictures)." RARE /UNCOMMON. A NICE FIND.

Bookseller

Mary Riversong Books (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

249HumphreyTreasury

Title

Treasury of Stories, Jingles, and Rhymes

Author

Humphrey, Maude

Illustrator

Humphrey, Maud

Format/Binding

Hardcover

Book Condition

Used - Good

Jacket Condition

No DJ Included

Quantity Available

1

Edition

First Edition

Publisher

Frederick A. Stokes

Place of Publication

NY

Date Published

1894

Pages

242

Size

7 X 8 3/8

Weight

0.00

Keywords

Illustration, Humphrey Bogart, Maude Humphrey, 20th Century, 19th Century, Graphic Arts, Magazine

Bookseller catalogs

For Sale; Children's Books; Performing Arts; Art; Americana; Fantasy; Poetry; Fairy Tales; Parenting; women's Studies; Geneology; Anthology; Folk Lore; Language Arts; Short Stories; Movies; Mythology; memorabilia; Reading; Nursery Rhymes;

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First Edition

In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...

Paste-down

The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...