THE JESSIE WILLCOX SMITH MOTHER GOOSE
first edition Hardcover
1914 · New York
by SMITH, JESSIE WILLCOX
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1914. Spine lettered in white. Spine is rubbed with loss of a fews letters. Color onlay on front cover is rubbed and creased. The volume has been professionally restored with hinges repaired and re-inforced. . Numerous illustrations in full color and black and white. Free margin of the black and white plate, "Hot cross buns" has a 1" paper loss not extending to the illustration. Occasional soiling and spotting in text. Color plates are quite clean. Several plates have repaired closed tears without paper loss. Frontispiece has a crease and slight chipping at top near spine. All plates are present. Page 11-12 of "A List of the Rhymes" is missing. All first issue points noted in Nudelman A39 are present. But the missing page by necessity lowers the price significantly. . First Edition. Color-illustrated Boards. General Moderate Wear/No Jacket. Oblong Quarto. (Inventory #: 010941)