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Merry Times: Pleasant Pages for Every One.
A typical anthology of its time with good quality lithos. This fragile, early jacket has kept the board illustration very bright.
$190.00
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Merry Times: Pleasant Pages for Every One.
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Boston: De Wolfe Fiske & Co., [1890] early printing, printed by S. J. Parkhill, Boston; ivory glazed paper boards with full colour illus. of little children playing around Maypole on front, girl holding flowers on rear. Brown-on-ivory fine-patterned endpapers, 8 chromolithos, photogravures, small drawings in text; 4to; in grey jacket with photogravure of three children playing ship on a rug on front, little herald on back; np.
Picture book hardback.
CONDITION: Very Good with Fair jacket; very tight and straight with corners tips worn through, chips on bottom corners of front endpapers, in very edgeworn jacket darkened on edges, wrinkles on back, inch chips on spine ends and at corners, 3" tear; unclipped, no price.
Control Number:
14068 







