11-17-201311-17-2013
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2687BBoston
November 17, 2013 11:00 AMCalender
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Children's Books, Seven, Signed or Inscribed.

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$300$250
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2687BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 17, 2013 11:00AM

Description:

Children's Books, Seven, Signed or Inscribed.
Wanda Gag's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, New York: Coward-McCann, [1938], inscribed, second impression, with the dust jacket;
Wanda Gag's Nothing at All, New York: Coward-McCann, [1941], inscribed, no jacket;
Alison Baigrie Alessios's Round the Mulberry Hill, illustrated by Alma Wentzel Froderstrom, New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., with review slip inserted, and a signed card from Alessios to Carter, stated first edition, with the dust jacket;
Berta and Elmer Hader's The Cat and the Kitten, New York: Macmillan, 1940, inscribed, with the jacket;
Mary Gould Davis's The Handsome Donkey, New York: Harcourt, Brace, & Co., [1933], illustrated by Emma Brock, inscribed; in yellow publisher's cloth, no jacket;
Berta and Elmer Hader's The Big Snow, New York: Macmillan, 1948, inscribed, fourth printing, with the jacket;
[and] Maud and Miska Petersham's The Rooster Crows, New York: Macmillan, 1945, signed by both Petershams, no dust jacket. (7)

Provenance: from the collection of Julia F. Carter (1884-1980).
Estimate $400-600


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Keywords

Macmillan, Julia F. Carter, Wanda Gag, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alison Baigrie Alessios, Berta Hader, Elmer Hader, Mulberry Hill, Green & Co., Alma Wentzel Froderstrom, Mary Gould Davis, Emma Brock, yellow publisher, Brace & Co., printing, Maud Petersham, Miska Petersham