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Julia Ellsworth Ford. Imagina. Duffield & Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$321.57 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this charming children's work by New York socialite Julia Ellsworth Ford, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The first edition of this work, signed by the author, a prominent socialite, art collector and patron of the arts. She was married to financier and co-owner of the Grand Union Hotel in New York, Simeon Ford.Tipped in to the front pastedown is a signed note by Ford reading 'with love from Julia Ellsworth Ford, remembering pleasant days', and Ford's typed card, reading 'Mrs. Simeon Ford'.Illustrated with two colour plates by Arthur Rackham, and charming vignette illustrations by the author's daughter, Lauren Ford. Collated, complete.A melancholy tale of a child's imagined world. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Damp staining to tail of rear board, with fading to head of rear board and to fore edge of front board. Hinges strained, but firmly held. Author's handwritten signature and typed card tipped in to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, with the odd spot, most concentrated to the start of the work. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good, front hinge crack, spine ends worn,; Library of Congress surplus stamp on endpaper,; Inscribed by Julia Ford to Kate Douglas Wiggin; also inscribed by Kate Douglas Wiggin to Margaret Harriman.
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Ford, Julia Ellsworth; Rackham, Arthur; Ford, Lauren. IMAGINA. Duffield & Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Unique presentation copy of Ford's distinctively melancholy story of a child's imagined half-world, inscribed by Ford to Rackham collector and bibliographer Sarah Briggs Latimore. 9.5'' x 7.25''. Original dark blue cloth with decorative gilt stamping. In later E.P. Dutton dust jacket. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated with two color plates by Rackham and numerous black and white drawings by Lauren Ford. Inscribed by Julia Ford on front free endpaper: "To Miss Latimore with the author's best wishes. Julia Ellsworth Ford. / My daughter Lauren Ford illustrated this book in black & white when she was 17 years old. She is now a celebrated artist. One of her pictures was accepted by the Metropolitan Museum in N.Y." Jacket with shallow chipping to extremities and tape repairs to verso, one.25'' circular hole to front panel, light soil and very faint foxing. Only mild wear and rubbing to boards.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.