Denslow's Humpty Dumpty inscribed
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Author: Denslow, W.W.
Title: Denslow's Humpty Dumpty and Other Stories
Place Published: New York
Publisher:G.W. Dillingham Co.
Date Published: [1903]
Description:
Author: Denslow, W.W.
Title: Denslow's Humpty Dumpty and Other Stories
Place Published: New York
Publisher:G.W. Dillingham Co.
Date Published: [1903]
Description:
[64] pp. Illustrated throughout in color by W. W. Denslow; color pictorial endpapers. (4to), original gray cloth stamped in dark red on the front cover & spine, color pictorial cover label. First Edition.
Presentation copy inscribed and signed by Denslow in ink on the front free endpaper, "To Miss L.E. Bateman, with compliments of W.W. Denslow," with Denslow‘s characteristic decorative "Den" seahorse sign. The scarce first edition of this wonderfully illustrated nursery stories and fairy tales from the classic artwork of William Wallace Denslow, compiling the first six of Denslow‘s Picture Books for Children, originally published separately in 1903 by Dillingham. Greene & Hearn 30.
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A little shelf wear and extremity rubbing; free endpapers a bit darkened, brittle, ¼" of lower corner of front free endpaper torn off; some minor soiling and aging within, a few neatly repaired tears; very good.
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Denslow's Humpty Dumpty inscribed
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