Jessie Willcox Smith Mother Goose. A Careful Selection of the Rhymes. With Numerous Illustrations in full color and black & white.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1914.
First Edition of "The Jessie Wilcox Mother Goose" in the Rare Publisher's Box
[SMITH, Jessie Wilcox, illustrator]. The Jessie Wilcox Smith Mother Goose. A Careful Selection of the Rhymes. With Numerous Illustrations in full color and black & white. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, [1914].
First edition, second issue. Large oblong quarto (8 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches; 215 x 290 mm). With seventeen full-page plates, twelve of which are in color, including frontispiece. Many illustrations in the text. Title-page in black and blue.
Publisher's full black cloth, color pictorial label on front cover. Spine lettered in white. Pictorial label with a few very small spots of rubbing. Previous owner's inscription on front free endpaper. A few instances of finger soiling. Overall a near fine copy. Housed in the rare publisher's pictorial box. Box is a bit tattered and is missing one end flap.
HBS 66036.
$1,250.
Price: $1,250.00
Item #66036