First Wyeth-illustrated edition of this collection of stories about the legendary emperor in stunning Golden Age style — scarce in dust jacket.
Fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Price: $1,200.00
"There is no era more appealing to youth than that of Charlemagne."
The exploits of the first Holy Roman Emperor are rendered here with N. C. Wyeth's poetic brush, which lends itself particularly to epic tales of the early middle ages. This is a notably nice copy, which retains its scarcely found original dust jacket.
Read more: Douglas Allen, N. C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations, and Murals, page 200.
First edition. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1924. 9.25'' x 6.5''. Original maroon cloth boards with large color pictorial paste-on. Original unclipped ($3.50) color pictorial dust jacket. Top edge gilt. Color pictorial endpapers of knights in battle, a castle, and a woman praying. Color pictorial title page with eight color plates. xii, 274 pages. Jacket with some edgewear and a few little chips, a couple tiny closed tears; spine mildly toned. Binding with a touch of bumping to spine ends, a couple tiny areas of rubbing to onlay. Spine cracked near center. Sharp and clean.
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