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THE LITTLE BLACK SAMBO STORY BOOK : A TREASURY OF SUNSHINE STORIES FOR CHILDREN by Stephenson, Eunice - 1930

by Stephenson, Eunice

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THE LITTLE BLACK SAMBO STORY BOOK : A TREASURY OF SUNSHINE STORIES FOR CHILDREN by Stephenson, Eunice - 1930

THE LITTLE BLACK SAMBO STORY BOOK : A TREASURY OF SUNSHINE STORIES FOR CHILDREN

by Stephenson, Eunice

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  • Hardcover
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1930. Hardcover. Very good. Eunice Stephenson. 95 pp. including numerous in-text color illustrations. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth, stamped in black, green, and red, color pictorial plate mounted to front board. Christmas 1939 gift inscription on verso of front free endpaper, small pencil scribbles on two endpapers, and faint pencil scribbles on rear board. Binding moderately scuffed and worn. Overall a very good copy.

An unusual early version of the Little Sambo story, featuring the title character as an Indian boy dealing with a succession of hungry tigers. With seventeen additional stories (in which Sambo does not appear). Part of the Winston Easy-to-Read Story Books series. OCLC records three copies, at the Library of Congress, University of Florida, and Toronto Public Library.
  • Bookseller W. C. Baker Rare Books & Ephemera US (US)
  • Illustrator Eunice Stephenson
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Very good
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher The John C. Winston Co.
  • Place of Publication Philadelphia
  • Date Published 1930
  • Keywords children's literature, India, illustrated, color plates

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The Little Black Sambo Story Book: A Treasury of Sunshine Stories for Children

The Little Black Sambo Story Book: A Treasury of Sunshine Stories for Children

by Illustrated By Eunice Stephenson

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
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Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co., 1930. Copyright 1930, this copy most likely from that date. Winston Easy-to-Read Story Books series. Color illustrated children's stories starting with Little Black Sambo, Includes a total of 18 stories, with color illustrations on just about every page. Light blue pictorial cloth with color illustration mounted on the front cover and additional boy and tiger motif in black, orange and green, 7.5 inches tall, decorative endpapers, 95 pages. Very good with light edge rubbing, sound binding, a few tiny closed tears to the lower margin from eager page-turning but without any paper loss and without affecting any printed areas, erased pencilled name (barely visible) on preliminary blank, pages clean with no other markings.. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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