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Lot 196
Sale 6115 - Books & Manuscripts
Sep 19, 2019
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Lot Description
[Children's & Illustrated] Johnson, Crockett Harold and the Purple Crayon
[New York]: Harper & Brothers, 1955. First edition with Library of Congress catalog card no. 55-7683 to title page, in early issue dust-jacket with no price to top of front flap, with code "30-60 / No. 5671A" to front flap and "No. 5672A" to rear flap. 12mo. Publisher's quarter black cloth, lettered in white, over illustrated paper-covered boards; text block with some light scattered foxing; in matching pictorial dust-jacket, price-clipped and with some fading, two-inch abrasion to front panel traversing the "L" in "Harold" with slight paper loss, a few tiny chips to extremities.