First Edition. Original oblong small Quarto, black cloth over boards, pages of stiff, thick black card-stock with white print intended to look like schoolroom slate. An extremely scarce children's book published by Bowen-Merrill and illustrated by the arts and crafts movement artist Virginia Hynson Keep, who illustrated a number of other children's books. Keep, who was born in New Orleans and worked in Illinois, had numerous contemporary art exhibits and studied under Howard Pyle. This copy inscribed and signed in white paint at front free endpaper by Martha and Helen Krag and Florence Krag Reynolds. Very Good tight copy, some minor cloth loss at lower spine end and lower front fore-edge corner.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Martha-Jane. Nursery Nonsense

Publisher

Bowen-Merrill Co, Indianapolis

Publication Date

1897

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

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Signed by Author(s)

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Children's Literature

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We strive to provide a large, high quality, and diverse collection of fiction published primarily before the Second World War and with their original dustjackets. With over 12,000 such titles in our inventory, it is one of the largest �for sale� collections of such material in the world. While our specialty is Jazz Age and Depression Era literature, we also maintain a growing collection of Children's and 19th Century Literature. We pride themselves on providing accurately described, high grade, and difficult to locate titles in all fields of literature.

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Babylon Revisited Rare Books
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