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Lot 165
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[CHILDREN'S BOOK]. [GREENAWAY, Kate (1846-1901), illustrator.] HARTE, Bret (1836-1902). The Queen of the Pirate Isle. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1887.
4to. (Offsetting.) Publisher's pictorial cloth, edges gilt (front hinge starting); original glassine. FIRST EDITION.
[With:] GREENAWAY, Kate. Autograph letter signed ("Kate Greenaway") to W.B. Allen. 20 October 1885. 2 pp., 12mo in ink, with original envelope. In part: "Excuse my being so long in answering your letter, but I have been from home. I am sorry that I can't give you any help for such a notice of me in your magazine, for I do object and have always refused to give any information about my life, as I like it best for myself."