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Tudor, Tasha (1915-2008) Signed Books, Letters, First and Early Editions, Five Letters, Eleven Books.
Five autograph notes and cards with envelopes, from the 1990s and early 2000s; signed copies of Alexander the Gander, London: Oxford University Press, 1945, fourth printing, in the jacket; First Poems of Childhood, New York: Platt & Munk, [1967], inscribed, with a drawing, in a price-clipped dust jacket; and The Private World of Tasha Tudor, Boston: Little, Brown, stated first edition, 1992.
[Together with] Take Joy!, Cleveland & New York: World Publishing, [1966], in the jacket; The Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales, London & Glasgow: Collins, [1969]; First Prayers [and] More Prayers, New York: Walck, 1981, in dust jackets; Mother Goose, Oxford University Press, 1955, eighth printing, in the jacket; The Doll's Christmas, Oxford University Press, 1950, third printing, in the jacket; Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, New York: Walck, later edition, dust jacket; A Basket of Herbs, Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Green Press, 1983, first edition, limited, in the jacket; and Drawn from New England, New York: Philomel Books, 1981, in price-clipped dust jacket. (11)
Estimate $500-700
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Keywords
Oxford University Press, Oxford University, London, Tasha Tudor, printing, Brown, Cleveland, Glasgow, Goose, Stephen Green Press, Brattleboro, New EnglandJohn Dorfman
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