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"What Makes Me Grow?" or Walks and Talks with Amy Dudley.
Amy Dudley, aged 6, asks her mother how she and trees and sheep can all grow. By an author of books on travel who later wrote Distant Cousins and How do I Know? in the same format. Two charming pictures. In Catalogue 21.
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"What Makes Me Grow?" or Walks and Talks with Amy Dudley.
/Lorenz Froelich, illustrator.
New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 661 Broadway, 1868/1868, 1st printing; beveled dark brown finely stamped boards with gilt title cartouche on front and gilt on spine, lavender endpapers, tissue covered frontis of the child Amy being weighed on the market scales and on the decorative title page, Amy investigating her cereal; 5x7"; 169 pp.
Juvenile hardcover.
CONDITION: Very Good; Lillie Whipple Christmas 1871 name on free front endpaper, facing ink blot, extremities rubbed, headbands bumped, gilt bright, three page folds carelessly cut and rough, a bit of foxing on frontis tissue, overall a clean, solid copy.
Control Number:
18905 

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