The Lost Zoo (A Rhyme for the Young, But Not Too Young) [Beatrice Murphy's Copy]

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. Very Good-. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1940]. First Edition Stated with letter code K-P. Octavo (23.5cm); publisher's yellow cloth lettered in blue; [12],72pp.; color frontispiece, fifteen leaves of color plates (collated complete). Ex-District of Columbia Public Library with their gift ex libris from the Beatrice M. Murphy Foundation to front free endpaper, otherwise free of institutional markings; cloth a bit dust-soiled, scuffed and worn at spine ends and corners; about Very Good, internally clean and sound.

Provenance: Ownership rubber-stamp of the aforementioned Beatrice Murphy, poet, educator, and founder of the Negro Bibliographic and Research Center in Washington, DC.