Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose: A Careful Selection of the Rhymes. With Numerous Illustrations in full color and black & white.
by MOTHER GOOSE
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1914. SMITH, Jessie Willcox. First Edition of "The Jessie Wilcox Mother Goose" in the Rare Publisher's Box
[SMITH, Jessie Wilcox, illustrator]. The Jessie Wilcox Smith Mother Goose. A Careful Selection of the Rhymes. With Numerous Illustrations in full color and black & white. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1914].
First edition, second issue. Large oblong quarto (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches; 215 x 290 mm). With seventeen full-page plates, twelve of which are in color, including frontispiece. Many illustrations in the text. Title-page in black and blue.
Publisher's full black cloth, color pictorial label on front cover. Spine lettered in white. Pictorial label with a few very small spots of rubbing. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. A few instances of finger soiling. Overall a near fine copy. Housed in the rare publisher's pictorial box. Box is a bit tattered and is missing one end flap.
HBS 66036.
$1,250.
[SMITH, Jessie Wilcox, illustrator]. The Jessie Wilcox Smith Mother Goose. A Careful Selection of the Rhymes. With Numerous Illustrations in full color and black & white. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1914].
First edition, second issue. Large oblong quarto (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches; 215 x 290 mm). With seventeen full-page plates, twelve of which are in color, including frontispiece. Many illustrations in the text. Title-page in black and blue.
Publisher's full black cloth, color pictorial label on front cover. Spine lettered in white. Pictorial label with a few very small spots of rubbing. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. A few instances of finger soiling. Overall a near fine copy. Housed in the rare publisher's pictorial box. Box is a bit tattered and is missing one end flap.
HBS 66036.
$1,250.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66036
- Title
- Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose
- Author
- MOTHER GOOSE
- Illustrator
- SMITH, Jessie Willcox
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books|Children
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