The Hole Book

NY: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1908. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, First Printing (published October 1908). Listed as Blanck's "Peter Parley to Penrod" 1908 selection, amazingly popular in its day. Publisher's full blue cloth, pictorial paste-on on cover. Each page has a hole in the center caused by little Tom Potts' pistol, and the story revolves around the bullet's travels and how it affects eveyone. Profusely illustrated with marvelous color full-page illustrations by Newell. Peter Sheaf Hersey Newell (1862-1924) was an American artist and author. A native of McDonough County, Illinois, Newell built a reputation in the 1880s and 1890s for his humorous drawings and poems, which appeared in "Harper's Weekly," "Harper's Bazaar," "Scribner's Magazine," "The Saturday Evening Post," "Judge," and other publications. He later wrote and illustrated several popular children's books, such as "Topsys and Turvys" (1893), a collection of poems and images which could be viewed upside-down or right-side-up; "The Hole Book" (1908), which had a literal hole at the center of each page to indicate the path of a bullet; and "The Slant Book" (1910), which took the shape of a rhomboid and told the story of a baby carriage careening down a hill. . Head and heel mildly worn, covers lightly rubbed, unmarked, tight, square and clean. An extremely nice copy. VERY GOOD. . Color Illustrations. Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Unpaginated pp .