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Lot 53

Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$300 - 500

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[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]. [GREENAWAY, Kate (1846-1901)]. SPIELMANN, Marion Harry Alexander (1858-1948)., and George Somes LAYARD (1857-1925). Kate Greenaway. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905.


4to. Color frontispiece and numerous color and black and white plates. Original full white cloth-covered beveled edge boards, decorated in blind and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges trimmed (lightly soiled, foxing to same).

FIRST EDITION, "Edition De Luxe Presentation Copy," inscribed by the author, M.H. Spielmann, to Lady Tate (Caroline Hill Rigby Glasgow, wife of Sir William Henry Tate, 2nd Bt): "To Lady Tate / With the Kindest regards of M.H. Spielmann & his Wife, / Christmastide, 1905". WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY GREENAWAY of three girls jumping rope, window mounted at front, and signed by Greenaway's brother, John Greenaway, on mount (as issued). Inman 236

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