Circus Day (Little Folks Library)

Chicago and New York: The Werner Company, 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First edition, first issue. 128pp. Tiny book measuring 2 3/8" x 2 3/16", bound in boards with a cloth-like finish. Good only with offsetting to spine and inner edges of covers from binding, front cover rubbed along edges with delicate hinge near front, a few small stains to covers, small hole in ffep matching small glue spot on front paste down. Pages 37-44 and 51-60 loose. An "almost legendary" rarity of American author George Ade's first book under his own name, according to Ade bibliographer Dorothy Ritter Russo.