signed first edition 12mo., pictorial brown cloth, stamped in gilt & dark-brown
1916 · Chicago
by GRAHAM, Effie
Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1916. First Edition. Signed by Graham on the half-title page. Black dialect stories set in Kansas. Graham was a suffragette and math teacher who was allegedly a friend of Mark Twain's. Fred J. Arting did the illustrations for Edgar Rice Burrough's "Tarzan Of The Apes," published by the same publisher, A.C. McClurg, in 1914. 12mo., pictorial brown cloth, stamped in gilt & dark-brown. Decoration by Fred J. Arting. Very Good (covers bright on cover & spine; contents clean & tight but for small brown spot at bottom of first several pages). Pencil name of front endpaper "Myrtle Warrington" & tiny ink presentation from "LEB," dated 1916.
(Inventory #: 56955)