Poems of Childhood

  • New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904
By Eugene Field; Maxfield Parrish [illus.]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. First Edition in later issue dust jacket. Large octavo; publisher's cloth, color pictorial element mounted to front cover, in tan dust jacket with different color pictorial element mounted to front panel, top edge gilt, housed in custom linen slipcase; x,[2],199pp.; pictorial title page printed in color, eight leaves of color plates with accompanying printed tissue guards, pictorial endpapers.

Jacket backed by prior owner and rather extensively repaired along margins, with some general soiling to surface; pictorial endpapers also show substantial restoration; cloth extremities a bit rubbed, chiefly at spine ends, textblock glued down; overall a Very Good, quite presentable but still heavily restored copy. Date of jacket based on advertisement on rear panel for the publication of Captain Marryat's The Children of the New Forest (1927).

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