Nursery Friends From France de Olive Beaupré Miller (translator)

The Book House for Children, 1927. Hardcover. Oversize quarto (8x11"). Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham. No dust jacket, blue buckram boards worn and scuffed but clean. A few pages have tape-mended tears but are fully legible. Many many gorgeous illustrations. Pages clean, binding sound.

Chicago.: Book House for Children., 1948. 27th printing since 1925 Bern Convention original.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Near fine. Light reading wear w/ slight rubs to spine ends, corners. Interior random soil spots; else clean.. Petersham, Maud (Illustrated by), and Petersham, Miska (Illustrated by).. 1 Light blue textured cloth over boards. Round color paste-on art: 2 children w/ goat. Gold stamped spine, front titles. Text in English, some French. 191 p. 29 cm. Color art Illustrations, music. Cover paste-on suggested by portrait of little prince and princess, Charles Philippe and Marie Clotilde of France, by painter Francois Drouais, hanging at the Museum of the Louvre. Full-page art has bordered verse inset. Illustrated music pages also. Historical notes accompany some verse selections. End papers show a color illustrated map of France, positioning story characters. Alphabetical contents at back: bilingual titles.

Chicago: Book House for Children, 1926. Hardcover. Very good. Maud & Miska Petersham. Bound in the original red illustrated cloth over boards, cover and spine stamped in gilt. Light rubbing to edges and extremities. Illustrated endpapers and illustrations throughout in full color by Maud & Miska Petersham.