CHRISTMAS STOCKING SERIES: The story of LITTLE BLACK SAMBO, PETER RABBIT, FAIRY TALES FROM GRIMM, FAIRY TALES FROM ANDERSON, THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
by L. Frank Baum
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used/shows signs of uses binding missing/ broken
- Seller
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Morongo Valley, California, United States
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About This Item
Six Volumes, 4" h x 3" w. Peter Rabbit is dated 1911 other five are 1905. Bound in original red paper covered boards with pictorial down the front covers that are surrounded by a stamped design of holly and berries. White paper inside aged with yellowish tint. each book has numerous full-page color and some black and white illustrations throughout, the only credited illustrator John R. Neill for Peter Rabbit. Introductions by L. Frank Baum. Publisher's ads at ends. A Very Good set, lacking the original slipcase, spines are rubbed and falling apart, binding on Cinderella is gone. Interior contents are good solid some pages do have pencil writing/ marks from a child SCARCE as a complete set. The tumultuous and complicated history of "Little Black Sambo" as a book and as a pejorative term adds a painful overlay to this otherwise charming Christmas stocking stuffer. Each miniature book has different page count, listed below. Fairy tales of Grimm -127 pages Fairy tales from Anderson - 126 pages Cinderella - 119 pages Peter Rabbit - 124 pages Night before - 106 pages Sambo - 56 pages
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- Bookseller
- Stephanie Forrest (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4
- Title
- CHRISTMAS STOCKING SERIES
- Author
- L. Frank Baum
- Illustrator
- John R. Neill
- Format/Binding
- Red Cloth Hardcover Binding with Black Lettering
- Book Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- shows signs of uses binding missing/ broken
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reilly & Britton Co.
- Date Published
- 1905 and 1911
- Size
- 3 x 4 inches
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Christmas , stocking, L. Frank Baum, rare ,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children; Vintage and collectibles; Fantasy; Youth; Fiction; Christmas;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Miniature
- A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...