first edition
1925
by SAUNDERS, Louise (Maxfield Parish)
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, 1925. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., folio, illustrated bu Maxfield Parish, inscribed on the half-title "For Peggy Frothingham, With love and best wishes for a happy Christmas. Louise Saunders. 1936." Publisher's original black cloth, pictorial front cover, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers, inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine slightly rubbed with some minor loss, damp stain to spine affecting lower edge of textblock. While not a brilliant copy inscribed copies seldom appear on the market. Louise Saunders had 5 daughters. The recipient was Margaret F. ("Peggy") Frothingham Buck. The sister-in-law (truncated)