DETAILS: Hardcover how-to book filled with patterns and very detailed, yet simple instructions for making dolls and doll clothing. Includes the original owner's loose tissue pattern pieces & tracings. (A few of which are seen in the posted photos.) Originally published in 1928--copies in this condition and predating 1951 are very scarce.
AUTHOR: Edith Flack Ackley
ILLUSTRATOR: Inside jacket reads, "Profusely illustrated in line by Telka Ackley".
COPYRIGHT: 1938, Ninth Impression
PUBLISHER: A Stokes Book ~ J.B. Lippincott Company
PLATES & ILLUSTRATIONS: Very good. I've posted two black and white scans for a detailed look.
BINDING: Tight
PAGES: 107pp + 1 doz blank pages for sketches and notes. Pages are in very good condition. Free of any tears, noting, or inscriptions. Slight yellowing. Soft, not brittle. Minor, typical edge wear. No missing pages.
COVER: The deep red hardcover itself is in very good condition with only typical, age appropriate edge wear. It's dust cover is clearly illustrated in reds and oranges, but is in *extremely* poor, actively deteriorating, condition. Again, this ONLY pertains to the paper dust cover and not the book cover itself.
DIMENSIONS: 7 5/8" x 5/8" x 10 1/8"
OVERALL CONDITION: Excluding the dust cover, the book is in VERY GOOD condition.
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