Search Results: tales of a russian grandmother by carpenter frances

Junior Literary Guild / Doubleday Doran. Unknown Binding. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday, Doran, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. A very good copy in the original blue cloth stamped in red (light wear to cloth). First edition (stated). Illustrated in color and b/w by I. Bilibine.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. First edition. Hard cover. Very Good/No dustjacket. Some fraying and wear to corners and ends of spine. Illustrated with eight color plates, eight black and white plates, and black and white in-text illustrations by Ivan Bilibine. With all issue points of the true first printing of the first edition; Rare Thus. Frances Aretta Carpenter (April 30, 1890 – November 2, 1972) was an American folklorist, author, and photographer. She traveled to, and published collections of folk stories from, nations on five continents.

New York:: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.,, 1943.. Hardcover -. Ex-library, in sturdy library binding, with some reading wear in a very good example of the extremely scarce dust jacket (which reproduces the illustration of the maiden and the Frost King) - the dust jacket is slightly larger than the book, has the price of $2.00 on the flap and notes on the back cover that it was produced under wartime conditions. . Later printing. The second of her popular Grandmother series by this American folklorist, traveler and photographer, books which used the device of a grandmother as narrator to convey details of national culture as well as its folk legends. This book - containing "genuine" stories, translated from original Russian sources with the classic illustrations by Ivan Bilibin - including a full color frontispiece and seven internal color plates, eight black and white plates, and numerous black and white in-text illustrations, decorations and illuminated letters at the beginning of… Read More

Doubleday, Doran, 1935. Book. Illus. by Bilibine. Very Good. Hardcover. Nicely preserved copy in bright covers with scarlet lettering. With 8 full page color illustrations, 8 in b/w, and decorative titles by I. Bilibine. Clean and unopened with hinges well intact. Pencilled name of former owner on endpage. Mild wear to edges and a line of soil on side edge, else very presentable..

New York: Doubleday, 1933. hardcover. very good(+). I. Bilibine. 8 illustrations in color and 8 in black & white by I. Bilibine. 8vo, blue cloth with red lettering, top edge red. New York: Doubleday, 1923. Spine lightly sunned and rubbed at extremes, still a very good(+) copy.<br/> <br/>

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1939. Later printing, dated 1939. Beautiful full-page illustrations in color and black-and-white. Light wear to the extremities. Previous owner's bookplate is on the front free endpaper. Otherwise fine in a square, tight binding. The dust jacket is chipped and torn at the spine ends. The spine is slightly sunned. The price, $2.00, is present on the front flap. In Brodart archival dust jacket protector.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good+. Illus. by I. Bilibine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.