Traveling Shops: Stories of Chinese Children
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. 109pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Yellow cloth over boards with red ink stamped titles on the backstrip and front board, and a red ink stamped vignette on the front board. Bright yellow and red illustrated endpapers. With minor soiling along the joints, and part of a bookseller's small ticket on the recto of the rear free endpaper. In the dust jacket, with white paper tape backing a handful of small closed and open tears to the edges. Despite these flaws, the jacket is still quite attractive. Dance 022. Very Good / Good +. Item #67538
With four full-page illustrations from watercolors and many black and white illustrations by Lynd Ward.
Chicago-born illustrator, printer, and novelist Lynd Ward was known for his series of wordless novels illustrated with woodcuts and wood engravings, often referred to as a precursor to the modern graphic novels.
Price: $200.00