Details

Ill

• Kirk, Maria Louise, 1860-1938 [Browse]

Series

Stories all children love series [More in this series]

Notes

• Date from t.p. verso.
• Princeton copy 1: White Cotsen family bookplate with note in JoAnne Cotsen's hand that the book was a Hanukkah gift to her daughter Tobey in 1969.
• Princeton copy 1: "Hutchinson" stamped in ink on the front free endpaper.
• Princeton copy 1: Title page is printed in red and black.
• Princeton copy 1: Series list of twenty-six titles on half title verso ending with The Swiss Family Robinson.
• Princeton copy 1: "Printed...the Washington Square Press".
• Princeton copy 2: Series list of twenty-eight titles on half title verso ending with The Swiss Family Robinson.
• Princeton copy 2: Title page is printed in black.
• Princeton copy 2: "With eight illustrations in color by Maria L. Kirk".
• Princeton copy 2: "Printed in the United States of America"--t.p. verso.
• Princeton copy 2: Publication date of 1935 inferred from the series list, which is identical to the one in the edition of MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin (1935), Cotsen number 12044.
• Princeton copy 2: The book's flyleaves and endpapers have been covered with pencil drawings of princesses, not all of them entirely decent.

Binding note

• Princeton copy 1: Pub. red pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt with white pictorial endpapers printed in dark orange.
• Princeton copy 2: Pub. red pictorial cloth stamped in black with ivory pictorial endpapers printed in orange.

Provenance

Princeton copy 1: Cotsen, Tobey

OCLC

1897267

Statement on language in description

Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage. Read more...