The Rectory Children / By Mrs. Molesworth
Macmillan & Company Limited, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (small). Good / No Jacket. Item #L059096
Slight cocking to spine; slight sunning, fading and rubbing to spine and covers (cloth; chiefly to spine and lower cover); inked (or re-inked?) title on spine; slight shaking to few signatures; slight mildew odor; slight internal browning and/or foxing (chiefly to edges and endpapers). viii, 212, [4], 38, [2] pages + plates. First issue of the illustrated children's book; includes publisher's catalogue (dated September 1889) and individual publisher's advertisements at rear. BMC, volume 17, page 760, column 159.Crane, Walter (illustrator); 8 b/w Illustrations / Plates (including frontispiece); b/w title Page Illustration & Decoration.
Price: $15.00