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BRUNHOFF, JEAN DE.
The
Story of Babar.
Illustrated by the author.
Folio, publisher’s cloth-backed pictorial
boards, corners bumped, light scratching;
contents clean.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
.
Printed poster for November, 1978 Book
Week by de Brunhoff folded and laid-in.
NewYork: Harrison Smith and
Robert Haas, 1933
[250/350]
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BURTON,VIRGINIA LEE.
Calico
the Wonder Horse or The Saga of
Stewy Stinker.
Illustrated by the author.
Small oblong 4to, original black cloth
printed in yellow; dust jacket, unclipped,
minor smudging, trace of rubbing to cor-
ners; contents clean.
[NewYork:] Houghton Mifflin, 1941
[350/500]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST PRINTING
with publi-
cation date indicated on title and copyright
pages. Review copy, with the publisher’s slip
laid-in.A fine copy in like jacket, and scarce as such.
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BURNETT, FRANCES HODG-
SON.
The Secret Garden.
Illustrated by
Maria Kirk with 5 tipped-in color plates.
8vo, publisher’s decorated green cloth gilt,
paper label to front cover, small chip to
label, otherwise fine; discreet booklabel to
rear pastedown, front inner hinge repaired.
NewYork: Frederick A. Stokes, (1911)
[400/600]
DELUXE ILLUSTRATED GIFT ISSUE
.
The first
edition was issued in August 1911 simultane-
ously in two styles, a blue cloth binding without
illustrations and a green cloth binding with
frontis and three inserted plates.This issue (not
in BAL) printed shortly after in a larger format
with the five plates.A fine copy. BAL 2115.
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