Description:
Children's Books, Five Titles. Including: Munro Leaf's Noodle, New York: Frederic A. Stokes Co., 1937, illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans, first edition, with dust jacket; Duplaix's Gaston and Josephine in America, London/New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press, [1934], with dust jacket; Duplaix's Gaston and Josephine, New York & London: Harper and Brothers, 1936, with dust jacket (torn); Chloe Preston's The Busy Bo-peeps, Philadelphia: David McKay, [no date], printed in Bavaria, text by Grace Graydon, color illustrations, some leaves loose, free endpapers detached; [and] Frederick J. Boston and Elizabeth S. Tucker's The Children's Book of Dogs and Cats, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1895], text and illustrations printed on rectos only, with twelve full-page chromolithographs, sizes vary. (5)
Estimate $300-500
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Keywords
oxford university press, Stokes Co., David McKay, Frederick A. Stokes, Ludwig Bemelmans, Frederick J. Boston, Elizabeth S. Tucker, Chloe Preston, Grace Graydon, Josephine, Gaston, London, Philadelphia, TorontoJohn Dorfman
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