Ouida Two Little Wooden Shoes 1926 Hardcover and similar items

TWO LITTLE WOODEN SHOES: A Sketch by Ouida, pseudonym of Maria Louise Rame (Also known under the pen name: Louisa de la Ramee) London: Chatto Windus, (1926). Reprint. (originally published in 1874). Ouida (1839-1908) wrote more than forty novels, including two that were adapted several times into plays and films: A DOG OF FLANDERS and UNDER TWO FLAGS. This novel was adapted for a 1915 silent film titled THE LITTLE DUTCH GIRL directed by Emile Chautard, and a silent film in 1920 titled TWO LITTLE WOODEN SHOES directed by Sidney Morgan. First set in the Netherlands, it features a foundling girl who grows up poor and sweet, becomes a model for, and enamored with a painter who moves to Belgium. When the girl, Bebee, hears the painter is ill, she walks to Belgium to offer him aid and comfort. Film Agency copy with Beverly Hills Nan Blair Agency bookplate to the front end-paper, end-papers age-toned as usual, slender one-inch long stain to fore-edge of the first few pages, slight rubbing to corner tips and to upper and lower spine edges, else very good in red linen with gilt embossed titles and decorations to the spine; no dust jacket. Octavo; 322 pages. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT VINTAGE BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.