Previews: Characters and Scenes from Books

Eloise in Paris by Kay Thompson. Drawings by Hilary Knight. 1999.
First published 1957

Presenting Lily Mars by Booth Tarkington. Illustrations by Harve Stein. New York: 1933.

Crusade by Donn Byrne. Illustrations by Henry Pitz. Boston: 1928.

Four Hundred Million Customers Can’t Be Wrong…The Experience of an American in China by Carl Crow. Drawings by G. Sapojnikoff.

Zara’s Tales:  Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa by Peter Beard. 2004.

The Real Japan by Henry Norman. 1892.

Master Bob Robin by Henry Stannard. No date.

Nothing in Her Life Was Right by Kathleen Norris. 1932.
A tantalizing preview!

The Belle-Mere by Kathleen Norris. 1931.
More phone drama.

Walls of Gold by Kathleen Norris. 1933.
Romance!

You Never Know Your Luck by Gilbert Parker. 1914.

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Illustrations by W. W. Denslow. 1903.

Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Illustrated by John R. Neill. 1907.

Scrambled Eggs Super! By Dr. Seuss. 1953.

When We Were Very Young by A. A. Milne. Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
1924.

When We Were Rather Older by Fairfax Downey. Decorations by Jefferson Machamer. 1926. A flapper version of Milne’s When We Were Very Young.

Wick’s Optical Tricks by Walter Wick. 1998.

The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf. Illustrations by Robert Lawson. 1936.

An Alphabet of Old Friends and The Absurd A.B.C. Written and illustrated by Walter Crane. 1981. First published 1874.

Moby Dick or The White Whale by Herman Melville. Illustrations by Anton Otto Fischer. 1931.

Old New York: False Dawn, The Spark and The Old Maid by Edith Wharton. Illustrations by E. C. Casell.  1924.

Always in Trouble by Corinne Demas. Pictures by Noah Z. Jones. The back endpapers feature a cut-out on the flyleaf or “free page”

The Dark Woods by Christine Weston. Illustrations by Walter Kumme. 1946.