The Golliwogg's Air-Ship; Verses By Bertha Upton

New York, London & Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co, 1902. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards, beige cloth spine. Very good. Upton, Florence. 64 pages. 22 x 28 cm. Clean, fresh copy with full color plates and small line drawings printed in brown on the text pages. Sarah Jane, Meg, Peg & Midget, are 4 wooden dolls who begin an exciting adventure when they build an Airship and take flight. Upton's book and its many sequels were extremely successful in England, largely because of the popularity of the Golliwogg. Wear to corners and spine head and foot, decorated endpapers. Some light cover smudges.