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GRAMATKY, HARDIE.
Little
Toot.
Illustrated throughout with full-
page and in-text color lithographs by the
author. Square 8vo, original blue-green
cloth lettered in yellow, trace of rubbing
to lower board extremities; dust jacket,
unclipped, minor edgewear with a few
small nicks and closed tears, narrow age-
toning along fold edges, vertical crease
along rear flap; discreet bookseller’s label
on rear pastedown, contents clean.
NewYork: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, (1939)
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST PRINTING
,
IN UNRE
-
STORED DUST JACKET
.
Little Toot was
featured in several animated shorts, including
the 1948Walt Disney film Melody Time with
storyboards by Bill Peet. Uncommon in the
original jacket.
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GRIMM, JAKOB and WILHELM.
German Popular Stories. Translated from
the Kinder und Haus Marchen.
Together, 2 volumes. Half-titles. Illustrated with 2
engraved titles, and 20 etched plates by George Cruikshank, those in volume 1 printed in
brown. 12mo, later full burgundy crushed morocco, French fillet covers, spines tooled in
gilt in compartments, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, by Bumpus; occasional offsetting to fac-
ing text from plates, Herbert Standen bookplates on front pastedowns.
London: C. Baldwyn, 1823; James Robins, 1826
[3,000/4,000]
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
,
FIRST STATE
of the title-page in volume 1 without the umlaut over the
“a” in “Marchen”; printed list of plates on page 218 (variant title to the tale of The Travelling
Musicians with the addition of the words “breaking through the Window”); and the final note (p.
240) refers to page vii of the preface.Without the publisher’s advertisements called for at the end of
Volume I and the beginning and end of Volume II, but with the 2 page “Advertisement” after prelims
inVolume II. Cohn 369.
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GREENAWAY, KATE.
Mother
Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes.
Illustrations throughout after Greenaway,
printed in colors from woodblocks by
Edmund Evans. Small 8vo, publisher’s grey
gilt pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed; Estelle
Doheny and Louise Ward Watkins book-
plates to front pastedown.
London & NewYork: George Routledge
& Sons [1881]
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST STATE
in the rare picto-
rial cloth binding with no table of contents and
no Evans seal added to the recto of the rear
endpaper, plus all three textual errors (p.18:
“bush”; p.38: numeral upside down; p.47:
“boy”).
IN AN UNRECORDED BINDING
.
Standard sources describe copies bound in
turquoise or pinkish brown cloth, with no grey
cloth copies examined. Detroit Public Library
138e; Schuster & Engen 140(1aa).
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