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Sale 2635
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Estimate$500 – $800
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1931. First edition. Oblong 8vo. (x), (65) pp. Illustrated with numerous black and white illustrations by Cady. Yellow cloth, stamped in red. tail cap and tips worn; all edges trimmed; contemporary gift inscription on front free endpaper; first gathering starting; scattered light foxing; inscribed with an original illustration by Cady of his famous Peter Cottontail character, adding "Drawn Especially for Geneva Ann Smith by Harrison Cady 1935."
A charming pen, ink, and watercolor illustration of Peter Cottontail holding a piece of sheet music, and singing along with a bird in a tree.
Provenance
From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Susan Kilgore Wiley, Raleigh, North Carolina
![[Children's & Illustrated] [Cady, Harrison] Palmer, Winthrop B. (editor) American Songs for Children](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/14db4d86-1405-4889-8d66-78fcd2f54b99?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Children's & Illustrated] [Cady, Harrison] Palmer, Winthrop B. (editor) American Songs for Children](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/e603e565-fab7-446a-af95-dc4e68b56c91?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)
![[Children's & Illustrated] [Cady, Harrison] Palmer, Winthrop B. (editor) American Songs for Children](https://assets.basta.app/accounts/4832eb18-f9a7-4c12-8295-871abe232696/images/b9d1f06a-0e41-4342-a387-85e66589d6ec?format=auto&width=1080&quality=75)