Hardcover
1929 · New York
by Illustrations by Mary LaFetra Russell
New York: The Saml. Gabriel Sons & Company, 1929. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Later Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. RARE in collectible dust jacket. Maroon linen boards with same illustration as on dust jacket pasted on to top cover, Very Good, slight toning and soiling at end papers, tiny bumps at top corner and top edge of spine. IN the RARE dust jacket, Very Good, small chip bottom edge of spine and flap fold edges, small closed edge tears. 38 unnumbered pages, 36 with nearly full page illustrations with 4 line rhymes below. Adorable Mary LaFetra Russell illustrations. OCLC shows the first edition as 1900, with later editions in 1914, 1917, 1923 and this 1929 edition, which is held by only 2 libraries. The 1929 edition also has several more pages than earlier editions. .
(Inventory #: 010319)