1927 one of 100 issued) holds two sets of volumes: My Bookhouse, a six-volume set comprising of In The Nursery (1925) Up One Pair of Stairs (1925) Through Fairy Halls (1920) The Treasure Chest (1925) From the Tower Window (1925) and The Latch Key (1925) the second set, My Travelship, is a three volume set comprised of Little Pictures of Japan (1925) Tales Told in Holland (1926) and Nursery Friends from France (1927). Chicago: The Bookhouse for Children, 1920/1929. Complete Set of My Book House and My Travelship in Original Wooden House. Color Illustrations 4to 11" - 13" tall 191 pages.Miller, Olive Beaupré, editor. This is a nice clean, tight and unmarked book with no interior or exterior markings, no owner names, and no bookplates. The lovely end papers are red with a colorful illustrations of cranes. With the exception of a trivial bit of wear to the top and bottom of the spine, there is virtually no wear to the covers or the paste-down. The covers are the publisher's original blue cloth covers with gilt spine and cover lettering and a beautiful circular color past-down on the front cover. Katherine Sturges' husband Clayton Knight was an author and illustrator as was her son, Hillary Knight, the creator of the original Eloise image in 1955, which he said was based on one of his mother's paintings. This book is literally filled with color illustrations by Katharine Sturges (1890-1979), all of which accompany short, poetic verses about aspects of Japanese life and the landscape. Illustrated by Katharine Sturges (illustrator). gilt lettering to spine, and illustrated endpapers. Blue cloth with tipped in color illustration and gilt lettering to front board.
Clean tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. 157 with faintly creased corner bottom fore-edge pp. Pictures by Katharine Sturges Twenty-Eight Printing, 1950. 191 pp, Foreword by Olive Beaupre Miller The Illustrations with poems at bottom by famous poets Prose: Of Lovely Things in Japan The Libble Boy and the Sparrosw (Issa) Of Poetry Picnics and Fireflies Of Plum Blossoms Of Cherry Blossoms Of Poetry Contests Of Little Girls' Names Of Little, Little, Little Things The Boy Under the Persimmon Tree (Hitomaro) The Lad Who Cleaned the Garden Path The Boy and the Moonlight the Lady and the Morning Glory (Chiyo) When Master Poet Chuckled (Soin) The Gentlest and Greatest Friend of Moon and Winds (Basho) Basho and the Bees, et alia The Herdboy and the Weaver (ancient legend) The Robe of Feathers (told from a classical, poetical drama of the Japanesse).
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