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Howard Pyle. The Garden Behind the Moon: A Real Story of the Moon Angel. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1895.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover. Condition: Good. Howard Pyle (illustrator). 192 pp, 10 b/w illustrations by author, 8vao, green cloth/Illustrated design front cover & spine with gilt titles. Spine top and bottom bumped, corners rubbed, wear at ends, light soil; vintage bookseller sticker on inside front board, gift insicripton from 1896 on second page. Story is complete but last pages (presumably blank) are removed.

Seller: Puffin & Bean, Concord, MA, U.S.A.

Pyle, Howard. The Garden Behind the Moon. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1895.

Price: US$83.38 + shipping

Description: Light green cloth with dark green, red, and gilt decoration and gilt lettering; 192 pp. with 10 full-page bw illustrations plus smaller ones at chapter headings; tissue over frontispiece. A delightful story written for Pyle's son, with charming illustrations by the author. The decorative cover is beautiful and typical of the time. Good but with some wrinkling to cloth at spine, light bumping to binding, and 3 ex-lib. stamps (none to covers)

Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.

PYLE, Howard.. The Garden Behind the Moon.. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895., 1895.

Price: US$295.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece and 9 b/w illustrations and 22 head pieces and one tail piece by the author. Title page printed in red and black. Original pictorial green cloth, pictorial spine and upper cover stamped gilt, dark green and red with design of flowers, leaves and a man's head. Very good-fine. 192 pages. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. Morse p. 132-133. Bleiler p. 162.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

Pyle, Howard [Field, Eugene]. The Garden Behind the Moon. [Association Copy; Inscribed by Pyle to Eugene Fields; Letter Laid in to Field's Widow]. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1895.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Hardcover. One of Pyle's last books for young people, the backstory to particular this volume is second to none. It was inscribed by Pyle to renowned poet and author, Eugene Field, "To Eugene Field, My fellow worker in the world of art" and below the inscription, also in Pyles hand is a lovely 12 line poem [N.B. no reference to the poem can be found and it is possible that this is a previously unknown Pyle work]. The inscription and poem are dated November 3rd, 1895. Eugene Field died, unexpectedly, on November 4th, 1895, and Pyle clearly heard about it very quickly as there is a letter laid in to his widow, dated November 10, 1895, expressing his deep sympathies and fond memories and presenting the inscribed copy to her in memory of her husband. An exceptional addition to a sophisticated Pyle collection. Light shelf/edge wear, bottom fore-tip gently bumped, lengthy inscription by author at first blank, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering and decorative elments, green and red ink lettering, frontispiece. 8vo. 192pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Very Good+ [Textblock Fine]. No DJ.

Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.