About Customs by Kathryn Heisenfelt illustrated by Charlotte R. Stone (1938), Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, Hardcover
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This is About Customs by Kathryn Heisenfelt, illustrated by Charlotte Stone, a large Grosset & Dunlap picture book hardcover, copyright 1938, with color illustrations throughout.
The pictorial boards show wear at the corners and bottom edges and a previous owner's bookplate is on the front endpaper, while the color pictures inside are bright, as the photos show.
Each chapter is a short story about how American children lived long ago, from About Pilgrims and About the Dutch to About Quakers, About Civil War Days, About Christmas, and About Arbor Day. Dates such as 1626, 1681, and 1862 mark where each story sits in time.
Details
- Item: Hardcover picture book
- Title: About Customs
- Author: Kathryn Heisenfelt
- Illustrator: Charlotte Stone (cover credit Charlotte R. Stone)
- Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers, New York
- Publication Year: 1938 (Copyright 1938 by Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.)
- Edition and Printing: Not confirmed from photos
- Format and Binding: Hardcover, color illustrated paste-downs over boards with a blue cloth spine
- Dust Jacket: None
- Pages: 43
- Genre: Children's historical stories
- Language: English
- ISBN: None printed on the copyright page
- Dimensions: 12x10x1 inches
Condition Grade: Good
Positives
- Graded Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use, and every flaw is named in this listing.
- Bright color illustrations throughout, including full page pictures for About Pilgrims, About the Dutch, and About Quakers.
- Blue pictorial endpapers of children playing by a picket fence.
- Pictorial front and back boards, with a fireside scene on the front and a spinning wheel scene on the back.
- Illustrated table of contents listing all 14 stories.
Issues / Wear
- Wear on the cover, with rubbing at the corners and along the bottom edges of the boards.
- A previous owner's My Book bookplate with a handwritten name on the front endpaper.
- Pages are lightly toned with age.
Please view the photos. Scroll in to judge the condition. This is the actual book you will be receiving.
This 1938 Grosset & Dunlap copy of About Customs has Charlotte Stone's color pictures throughout, and it suits a shelf of picture books about American childhood. If it's the right copy for you, it's ready to come home.
- Near Fine: Close to new. Any flaw is small and named above.
- Very Good: Light use. Every flaw is named above, and none of them get in the way of reading or display.
- Good: Complete and usable, with clear signs of use. Every flaw is named above.
- Fair: Heavy wear or damage, named above. A reading or working copy, not a display piece.
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