Books with author PELAGIE DOANE

Very Good, almost Near Fine book in an About Very Good jacket. See scans and description. Oxford University Press, 1948. First Edition. Quarto, illustrated jacket, teal boards with gilt imprinting, 142 pp. Illustrated richly in color and black and white by the author. Very Good or better book - showing faint sunning at places on cover periphery, and very light page edge soil, with no other flaws. About Very Good jacket is price-clipped and shows a notable top-front-cover chip (scan), and another smaller one at rear cover. Contents fine. No interior writing. See all scans. Quite handsome in overall aspect. A collection of poems, anonymous and not-anonymous, by famed illustrator Pelagie Doane. And, of course, illustrated lushly by Doane. As the 1948 first edition, with jacket, quite scarce in any condition. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box, of course - not a bag. L44

Once in a long time an authentic bit of childhood is captured and held within the pages of a book, so that other children in spirit, whether old or young, may enjoy it. Such a book is Mary Paxson's. The real diary of a real girl in the early 1880's, it has the sweetness, charm, and inimitable humor of unconscious literature in its rarest form. Mary Paxson's book is one to keep on a near-by shelf to read when life seems hurried and nerve wracking and you want to simplify