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New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1900. Boards. Very good. [WOMAN AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR] [RACIST CARICATURES]. American edition of the Dumpy Book. 24mo (5 ¾" x 4 1/8"); 56pp; illustrated boards, Sambo holding an umbrella inside an oval on front, lettering in black; green cloth shelf back; printer's error on last page of Preface "exactly"; fp + 26 full page color illustrations; tight binding; wear to boards, light staining, light fingermarks on pages, some cracking of hinge paper; very good minus. The Preface announces that this is a Dumpy Book, and the "pictures copied as exatcly [sic] as possible." An uncorrected printer's error in this copy published around 1900, the first Dumpy Book in which color illustrations by electrotype accompanied the text. Barton p108 & 116. The illustrations are reproductions of Bannerman's original primitive-style sketches of Black Indians, many with exaggerated lips, wooly hair, and large eyes.

Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co, 1900. Pictorial boards. Very good. 8vo; [46pp]; quarter bound tan cloth with chromolithographed paper over board; illustrated endpapers; black and white illustrations throughout; bumping to cover corners and chipping to edges with paper loss, loss of 1" chip rear cover paper top edge, , light soiling, age toning of pulp paper pages; very good minus. Date of book is based on the change of the publisher's name from Donohue and Henneberry to M.A. Donohue & Co. in 1901 and continued with this name until the 1960s. This style of book typically called a "board book". It featured a bright and attractive color illustrated cover but inexpensive pulp paper pages with a poor quality of printing. They were frequently produced in large numbers for holiday sales and reused publisher's stories and illustrations. Collectability is based on the covers.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/very good +. John Mason BROWN, introduction. First edition. 12mo; xii, 176 + [1]; mint green cloth over board, blind stamped vignette of soldiers on front, gilt stamped spine; red stained upper edge; ownership in ink to ffep; 4 b&w photographic illustrations on glazed stock from Broadway play; light age-toning of paper; unclipped pictorial dustjacket in sepia; chipping to edges, age-toning; fine in very good plus dj. The author, Harry Brown, was a native of Portland, Maine and an Oscar winning playwright (A Place in the Sun). Published at the end of World,War II, this drama centers on a small group of American soldiers at the Italian front. The play was produced by Irving L Jacobs and opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, on November 20, 1945.

Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally and Company, Publishers, 1908. Cloth. Very good. Elizabeth B. BROWNELL. [VICTORIANA] [POETRY] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHER]. 4to; 63pp; tan cloth over board, gilt-stamped lettering, decorative rondel with a portrait of a toddler on the front, portrait of a toddler onlay to rear; frontispiece of two toddlers kissing; portrait vignette on title page; photographic illustrations of children throughout with text; light scuffing to edges, front upper corner bumped, a few fingermarks, lightly shaken; very good. Sentimental and simple poems about children and childhood, illustrated throughout with photographs.