SIX SHORT STORIES FOR THE NURSERY. No. 6: FANNY, THE CONTRARY LITTLE GIRL [cover title]. [Published anonymously]

  • 12mo
  • Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 178 Chesnut St, 1853
By [Anonymous]
Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 178 Chesnut St, 1853. First edition. 12mo. Covers have moderate wear, with early, uneven foxing and tanning to covers and text, else a very good copy. First edition. 12mo. An uncommon American children's book; OCLC locates only two holdings [University of Connecticut, and Florida (which has an imperfect copy, lacking outer wrappers)].

[issued as "No. 6" in the series "Six Short Stories for the Nursery"; also published simultaneously in a collected, clothbound edition, under the title, 'Infant Prattle: Or Six Short Stories for the Nursery, in Words of One and Two Syllables, by A Mother, for the Use of Her Own Children']. not in Rosenbach; not in Osborne

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