Books with author Gertrude Kay

This is not a Print-on-Demand or facsimile book. It is a hardcover published with a dust jacket and black ink artwork to orange cloth boards. It was published by The Wise-Parslow Company, New York and has a 1929 copyright by The Curtis Publishing Company and a a 1930 copyright by The Wise Book Company. The color illustrations are by Gertrude Alice Kay. This is a children's book about Bobby and his uncle, the Colonel and their adventures sailing around the world. From the Madeira Islands to the Corniche Drive, France, Jerusalem, Taj Mahal, Java, Japan and many other places before finally stopping in Havana, Cuba. Gertrude Kay (1884-1939), illustrator and landscape painter, grew up in Alliance, Ohio. She studied illustration at the Philadelphia Museum School of Design and with Howard Pyle at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia. She produced covers and story illustrations for Ladies' Home Journal and other magazines from around 1908 through the 1920s. During this time she illustrated children's books as well. She began to travel extensively in 1921, first to China and Japan, and later to Ireland, England, and Italy. Accompanied on her travels by her school-teacher sister and mother, Kay studied Far Eastern and European cultures and filled sketchbooks with local color. Her popularity as an illustrator increased with her foreign travels as she demonstrated her ability to accurately portray family life and, in particular, children. In the late 1920s, she wrote and illustrated articles for the Ladies' Home Journal called "Adventures in Geography," mainly detailed accounts of journeys to distant lands.

Excerpt from The Fairy Who Believed in Human BeingsBut now I am no longer a child, and since that pleasant time I have learned a few simple things, among them more about fairies. So, in this book, I will try to relieve the wonder ing minds of the children who would like to know more about them.But, before I begin, you must promise not to ask too many questions. Especially you must not ask, Is it true? For, you see, I am a timid person, easily embarrassed, and questions frighten me, particularly the one Is it true? I will forget what I started out to say if you embarrass me, and the result will be that very suddenly the printing in this book will stop altogether, and the pictures too, and there will be pages and pages with out anything ou them - not even a comma.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Hard Cover; Fair+; Signed by Author; Dust Jacket - Acceptable; Hard Cover. Fair+/Fair. Minor chipping and edgewear to binding, some sunning and discoloration, corner bumps. Bookshop sticker on inside front cover. Flyleaf inscribed "To Louis Edmonds Christmas 1934 from mother and daddy." (Edmonds is the actor who played Langley on the long-running soap opera "All My Children.") Jacket chipped on edges and at corners, with a few pieces missing. Beautiful color and B&W illustrations.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Lang:- English, Pages 193. Reprinted in 2016 with the help of original edition published long back[1918]. This book is in black & white, Hardcover, sewing binding for longer life with Matt laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, there may be some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. (Customisation is possible). Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Original Title: The Fairy who Believed in Human Beings 1918 [Hardcover], Original Author: Gertrude Alice Kay

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.