Beverly
of Graustark
by
George
Barr McCutcheon
Dust
Jacket art by HARRISON FISHER,
with complimentary
matching bookmark
Five
interior color illustrations by Harrison Fisher
DODD,
MEAD, 1905
THE
VOLUME:
The book is in GOOD+
to VERY GOOD condition. The dark teal blue
boards have darkened with age and are faintly soiled. The edges
of the textblock have darkened as well. Minimal edge wear in
most places with more pronounced wear to spine corners. Board
corners are lightly bumped and worn The paste down picture has a
few small scrapes, which can be seen in the photo. Most of the
white lettering on the spine is rubbed, but intact. (White is
worn away on edges of publisher's name. See photo.)
All
five color illustrations by Harrison Fisher are present and in
good condition, but please note the subtle circle around the
caption “Beverly” on the frontispiece, as can be seen in
photo. There's a penciled ownership inscription on the reverse
side of the frontispiece.
The
book is very tightly bound and square with wholly intact hinges.
The first end paper and page 63 show evidence of corner
wrinkle/creasing, and being smoothed out afterward. A few small
brown spots between pages 1-7 and on page 126. Other pages
appear predominantly clean. The textblock shows faint evidence
of being very lightly bumped.
THE
DUSTJACKET: A
NEW FACSIMILE copy
of the Harrison Fisher jacket, which sold with the Grosset
and Dunlap reprint of this story, made from a scan of an
original in very good condition, printed on one sheet of
acid-free paper by an archival inkjet printer (80 yr. inks), and
preserved in archival plastic.
THE
STORY: “Again the
reader is taken to that natural home of romance and
adventure—Graustark, there to meet the Princess Yetive, now
Mrs. Grenfall Lorry, and her friend Beverly, a bewitching
American girl whom the Princess has lured to her stirring little
principality. A romantic love story is soon in full swing and
the incidents move with adventure and daring. A book in the true
McCutcheon style—full of crisp, delightful dialogue. A worthy
sequel to GRAUSTARK.”
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A
Little About Reprint Dust Jackets
As
Compared to First Editions:
Very
often, with a book of this age, the front illustrations on the
dust jackets of the first edition publishers and the reprint
publishers were identical. But I have also found many examples
where, surprisingly, the first edition of a turn-of-the-century
dust jacket was very plain—sometimes only plain brown
paper—and it was the reprint dust jacket, which bore the
lovely illustration—often one of the interior illustrations
from the first edition. In this case I have almost invariably
chosen to mate the first edition book with the more beautiful
reprint dust jacket.
In
the case of Beverly I believe the front panel of the jackets
were exactly the same.
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