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A Very RARE & Unusual McLoughlin Large Format HARDCOVER Title, with Text & Fantastic Cirque De Soleil Style Characters/Caricatures by Harry B. Matthews. More for the Grown-up Child in us all!! Dark Green Cloth backed Illustrated paper covered boards. REALLY NICE EXAMPLE, with Some outer corner rounding, Illustration still Very Nice!, slight edge wear! Complete with 38 Very Brilliant Color Illustrations; 19 FULL PAGE, with rhyme and only slightly smaller color illustration on each facing page. Unpaginated, with Original Plain end papers, Slightly Tanned, with small, neat 1909 Inscription on ffep.! interior in Excellent Condition, with Tight Binder with No other Marks or Damage!, No Loose Pages! An Antique GEM, in Oh! so many ways!!! ONLY PRINTING!

REILLY & BRITTON RED BOOK, J. R. NEILL (OZ) COLOR ART ! ORIGINAL RED BOOK FIRST EDITION -- NICE CONDITION, just some tip & edge rubbing, full spine title, faint fade on front along spine edge, some even mottled lightening to color, presents well. Interior is Complete with No Names or Marks, No Loose Pages.
Two pages in Mother Goose Jingles have ~2" closed spine margin tears (last double image of Jack & Jill and Little Bo Peep), but nothing is missing, and there is just a bit of very faint margin soil on a few pages, Tightly Bound, Hinges fine. Each book in this highly collected Series comes with two stories.
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RARE - CLASSIC SANTA CLAUS COLOR PLATES, REALLY NICE! __________________________________
This is a Nice Example of this RARE FIRST EDITION McLoughlin Bros. Chromolithographed ORIGINAL SANTA CLAUS & CHRISTMAS Stories Titles -- "A Visit From St. NICHOLAS & Other Christmas Stories"! It is Complete, with some edge wear & corner rounding to the boards, with Full Front Paste-on Color Illustration over deep red Cloth, some light soiling, with Full SPINE TITLE, on cloth, tips still nice.
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All 72 pages present plus original end papers -- Binder Tight, Hinges strong, slight looseness to text block, but no Loose or Damaged Pages. A minor touch of margin soil here and there. In addition to the 24 Great Chromos on glossy stock there are numerous B&W illustrations throughout the text . Deeply Rich Color Chromolithographs -- One of the Most Sought After McLoughlin NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (and other Santa Tales, Some Images Totally Unique to this edition.
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It is the ORIGINAL REILLY & BRITTON, J.R. NEILL COLOR ILLUSTRATED Version, EXCELLENT FIRST EDITION / PRINTING in This Format of Both Clement Moore's NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS & Brother's Grimm CINDERELLA, paired for the FIRST TIME in this Great TURNOVER BOOK -- Illustrated by WIZARD of OZ sequel Illustrator J. R. NEILL, done in somewhat larger format than the 1908 Red Book Series. This issue is notorious for wearing badly, yet this example is in EXCELLENT Condition, with BARELY ANY WEAR, & NO NAMES, MARKS or DAMAGE. COMPLETE & TIGHTLY BOUND! Adapted from Reilly & Britton's Children's Stories That Never Grow Old Series, each story is half of the book -- and must be flipped over for the other story, both having their Own Covers, title pages & copyrights. Again, Illustrated by J.R. NEILL with Color Pictorial Covers and 16 full page color Illustrations and a few smaller color Illustrations for both stories. TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING GEM in HEAVY RED CLOTH (Later printings were paper covers)