Books published by publisher Wise-Parslow

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.

HC, in good condition. Red cloth boards with black titling to cover and spine, black cat illustration to cover. Straight spine, tight binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Beautiful color illustrations throughout. Book in good condition, with rubbing to corners and spine, most severely at head and foot, edgewear, small markings to cover. Slightly yellowed pages, most markedly on front endpapers. unpaginated quarto no dust jacket CUTE!!! B Rhodes-KFB-.15-rm D bks B

Hardcover, beautiful full-color illustrated endpapers, appendix, 40 color illustrations arranged in pairs, with sea creatures on the left and their land-based namesakes on the right. *** Written for ages 9 to 12 but suitable for children of all ages. This book tells about fish and other sea creatures, focusing on those named after land animals or objects, including: angel fish, angler fish, barber fish, basket fish, bottle fish, catfish, elephant fish, goatfish, hatchet fish, hogfish, horseshoe crab, jellyfish, miner fish, needle fish, parrot fish, pipe fish, sailfish, sawfish, sea arrow, sea cow, sea cucumber, seahorse, sea rabbit, hammerhead shark, much more.

This book is old, old children's tales from India and have been favorites for many, many years; some have come from the early days of Buddha, and were taken from a book, called the "Jataka Tales," telling of the Buddha's previous existences. Some of the old tales have been translated from the Pali by Eugene Watson Burlinghame, and they have also been retold in attractive form by Ellen C. Babbitt.