$175.00 USD • Used
Full blue cloth binding with gilt lettering & decoration to front board & spine, illustrated endpapers, color frontis + one other color plate, b/w illustrations, 9-5/8" x 7-1/2", 178 pp. Light wea...
Full blue cloth binding with gilt lettering & decoration to front board & spine, illustrated endpapers, color frontis + one other color plate, b/w illustrations, 9-5/8" x 7-1/2", 178 pp. Light wear to edges of boards, main flaw is soiling to gutter of last two pages (both blank: verso of final plate and recto of rear endpaper.) Julia Ellsworth Ford was a New York socialite, art collector and patron, and author of children's books. She was married to Simeon Ford, a financier and co-owner of the Grand Union Hotel in New York. Ford presided over a salon that included the Lebanese mystic Kahlil Gibran, Irish poet W. B. Yeats, and American dancer Isadora Duncan. (Yale) Lattimore-Haskel p. 42.
Product Info
Publisher: Duffield & Company
Year: 1914
Type: Used
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
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Country: United States