Order Nr. 138664 FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF THE AMERICAN NURSERY, A HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN STORY-BOOK. Rosalie V. Halsey.

FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF THE AMERICAN NURSERY, A HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN STORY-BOOK.

  • Boston: Charles E. Goodspeed & Co., 1911.
  • tall 8vo.
  • cloth backed decorated boards.
  • ix, 245 pages.

Price: $85.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 138664

First edition printed in an edition of 700 copies by D.B Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston. Library quarter cloth and paper-covered boards, rubbed over edges. Ex-Mercantile Library copy, with bookplate, perforation stamps, spine shelving label, and charge pocket, else very good - solid and useful.

Includes chapters on The Play-Book in England, Newbery's Books in America, the American Newbery, etc. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.