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Grosset & Dunlap, 1921. clean and tight, foxed/worn and torn on edges, corners . very good cover. Former owner name. Pocket on inside back cover

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1921. Hardcover. Good. Frost, A B .

Grosset & Dunlap, 1921. Hardcover. Very Good/Good-. A B Frost. Revised edition with over 100 illustrations by A B Frost. Unclipped Jacket has some damage, now covered in brodart book cover,book has some shelf wear.

1921 hardcover as pictured. Binding is tight. Red cloth boards show light shelf wear. Inscription and owner's name on FFEP. Text block rough cut, top edge soiled. Text clean and unmarked. Dust jacket rubbed with small tears and chips at edges. Your purchase helps support our small village library. sAR

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. First Edition, First Issue. First Edition, First Issue. 231pp + 8pp "New Books" ads at rear (not containing this title, per first issue). Original publisher's navy blue cloth, with bold gilt-stamped illustration on cover of Brer Rabbit in the forest, embossed illustration in black, along with stylized fence, gilt lettering and design/stippling on spine. First Issue, with "presumptive" on last line of page 9, and with no listing of this title in book adv. at end. Original light green pictorial end papers, front hinge completely in tact, rear is cracked. With illustrations throughout by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser. Laid in is an original autograph letter signed by Harris, with attending envelope, postmarked Feb. 19, '98. The letter (and envelope) is a addressed to Jules Hart, who was at that time the head of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York, a Jewish orphanage founded in 1860, and closing offices in 1941. The orphanage found that children thrive… Read More

1895. Fine. Original pen and ink drawing on paper. Measures 11" x 17½" to the inside edges of a mat, neatly housed inside a glazed wood frame (20¾" x 27¾"). Signed by the artist in the lower left corner. One of Frost's original illustrations for the book *Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings* (p. 139), published by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1895. In fine condition with light toning at the edges of the mat. Accompanied with an example of the 1927 revised edition of the book. A beautiful original drawing by Frost, best known for his illustrations of Brer Rabbit and other characters in the Uncle Remus books.