At the Back of the North Wind / George MacDonald

Book

American Bookbinders Museum

Name/Title

At the Back of the North Wind / George MacDonald

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.258

Description

352 pages. 12 color plates. One page of advertising for "Holiday Editions of Juvenile Classics." Diamond, a young boy living in nineteenth-century London, has many adventures as he travels with the beautiful lady North Wind and comes to know the many facets of her protective and violent temper.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Faith, Juvenile fiction, 1900s

Dimensions

Height

8-1/4 in

Width

6 in

Book Details

Author

George MacDonald

Illustrator

Maria Louise Kirk

Edition

First

Publisher

J.B. Lippincott & Company

Place Published

City

Philadelphia

State/Province

Pennsylvania

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1909

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Poster Style

Binding Designer

Maria Louise Kirk

Binding Notes

Decorative red cloth binding with black and white stamped illustration of a young boy and a girl with a broom walking under falling leaves on a cobblestone path under a quarter moon. White stamping is bright and clear - it is often found rubbed and worn. Orange decorated endpapers.

Notes

Christmas gift inscription dated 1909.