Heading: (Fine Bindings)
Author:
Title: Four Books with Blue Decorative Bindings in Dust Jackets
Place Published: Various places
Publisher:Various publishers
Date Published: Various dates
Description:

Includes:

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  Foss, Sam Walter: Whiffs From Wild Meadows. Lothrop Lee & Shepard, Boston, 1895. Recased in modern blue cloth, titles stamped in black on the spine, in the publisher's printed paper dust-wrapper; pp. ix, 272, frontis portrait, illustrated throughout. Book near fine in its new case, pages clean and unmarked; jacket age toned, especially at the flaps folds and spine, chipping at the spine head, large scrape to the rear panel.


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  Hurll, Estelle M.: Child-Life in Art. L. C. Page, Boston, 1898. Blue cloth, color-blocked on the upper board in black, green, white, and gilt, gilt titles and decoration on the spine, t.e.g., others deckle, in the publisher's illustrated paper dust-wrapper; pp. xii, 176, frontis and 30 plates (within the pagination). A bright copy, spine tips and corners rubbed, a ding to the lower edge of the upper board; jacket with large chunks out of the spine ends and rear panel, rear flap detached, front flap nearly so, both with loss at the folds, spine darkened and rubbed.


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  Keats, John: The Eve of St. Agnes. John Bumpus, London. Original blue cloth decorated in black and gilt, a.e.g., in the publisher's printed paper dust-wrapper; unpaginated, but [43] pp., with illustrations on virtually every page. Undated, but circa 1880s. Light rubbing to the board edges, one darker spot on the spine, else fine; jacket browned with chips at the corners and spine tips, 1- inch round hole in the spine (corresponding with toned spot on book spine).


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  Sidney, Margaret: Whittier With The Children. D. Lothrop Company, Boston, 1893. Original blue cloth, decorated in silver and gilt on upper board and spine, t.e.g., in the publisher's printed paper dust-wrapper; pp. [6], 59. Trace rubbing at the spine tips and corners; jacket a little soiled, minor chipping at the tips and corners.

Overall very good or better.