Treasure Island

One of a lovely series of classic books for young readers illustrated by famous artists of the day, this one by Edmund Dulac, who provided art for the front pastedown, frontispiece, 7 internal illustrations, all of them full-page, full color; artist Manning V. de Lee provided other scattered pen-and-ink drawings & designs throughout the text. This is the First Edition in this format (First, thus) from Garden City Publishing, c. early 20th century (no date in book), in 287 pages. Hardcover book has green cloth-covered boards with a colorful front paper paste-down & lighter green lettering to spine. Condition is just Good: heavy edgewear & rubbing to extremities, down to underlying boards at corners. Some rubbing to front pastedown, cloth fraying along spine. Internally the book is clean with the occasional spot, smudge, & foxing; all illustrations have very mild foxing to outer margin. Some pages dogeared, Former owner's name in pen & bookplate to ffep, else unmarked. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Product Info

Publisher: Garden City Publishing Comapny, Inc.

Year: 1924

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

Seller Info

GargoyleBooks

Address: 7525 Olive Place La Mesa, California

Website: https://www.gargoylebooks.net

Country: United States