"The Land of Never Was. Being the Adventures of Great-A, Little-A and Bouncing-B". Text by Millicent Olmsted, pictures by Elenore Plaisted Abbott and Helen Alden Knipe, published by George W. Jacobs & Company, Philadelphia, First Printing of the First Edition. "Published September, 1908" without any other printings is stated on the copyright page.

CONTENTS:

The Journey to Moon-Goose Land
Three Old Friends
The Three Kings
A Curious School
Great-A Lost
A Visit to the House that Jack Built
A Novel Ride
The Trial Before Mother Goose
The Little Bachelor's Proposal
Mother Goose's Menagerie
In the Little Bachelor's Flat
Home Once More

"The Journey To Moon-Goose Land----Mrs. Brownlee had always said that her children should have fine-sounding, dignified names if she had anything to do with it.So, one day, seven years ago the first of April, when two big boy babies and one tiny girl all arrived together, Mrs. Brownlee had quite enough to do to find names for the triplets. Mr. Brownlee himself refused to name even one of them; for he was almost stunned at the coming of three little sprites at one time, for him to feed, to house, to clothe and to teach...

Elenore Plaisted Abbott [1875-1935] was born in Lincoln, Maine. She studied in Pennsylvia and Paris before entering Drexel Institute in 1899. She was influenced significantly by Howard Pyle, her instructor at the Drexel Institute. Her illustrations appeared in many magazines of the time, such as "Saturday Evening Post", "Harper's Magazine", and "Scribner's". She also illustrated books including Stevenson's "Kidnapped" and "Treasure Island"; Johann David Wyss's "Swiss Family Robinson", Louisa May Alcott's "Old Fashioned Girl", and the "Grimm's Fairy Tales" and Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". She married fellow painter Yarnell Abbott.

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Hard boards, original cloth with past-down illustration on the front board, gold stamped spine, 6.3/4" x 9.1/8"; decorated endpapers, 148 pages + 12 color plates on glossy paper, very little soiling, very good binding and condition. [kqpc]