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Sadler Marie. MAMMA'S ANGEL CHILD IN TOYLAND. Rand McNally, 1915.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to hardcover volume with pictorial cover. Minor edge wear on front spine good no spots on back. Boards tight end papers good with no markings. 115 pages very clean with some fantastic illustrations.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardcover in light gray paper covered boards with front cover tipped on color illustration and title. 115 pp. With 24 spectacular full page color plates, three half-page color illustrations and numerous full and partial page black and white drawings by Penny Ross. A very good, well-preserved copy, some light rubbing and toning about the edges of the boards, spine a little soiled and some light spotting to the rear cover. Interior has some light foxing to the edges of a few pages. One rainy day Little Esther takes an imaginary trip through the Rainbow Arch to "Toyland" where she meets soldiers, the king and queen, Jack in the Box, the residents of "Doll Town", a penitent elephant, living floawers and other magical beings. Esther is finally crowned "Queen of Toyland"
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$214.90 + shipping
Description: A good to very good copy in the original boards with full-color printed-pictorial label to front panel. Slight dust-dulling, with some rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 115 pages; Excellent illustrations. Small edge-tear to title page. Subjects: English literature - Fiction - Juvenile. Walt Disney - Early illustrations. Buster Brown - Ficticious character. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$244.00 + shipping
Description: A good to very good copy in the original boards with full-color printed-pictorial label to front panel. Slight dust-dulling, with some rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 115 pages; Excellent illustrations. Small edge-tear to title page. Subjects: English literature - Fiction - Juvenile. Walt Disney - Early illustrations. Buster Brown - Ficticious character. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$425.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this darling fairy story featuring characters from a newspaper comic strip, with outrageously charming illustrations by the strip's illustrator - in the scarce original dust jacket. M. T. "Penny" Ross created the "Mamma's Angel Child" comic strip in 1908, which ran for 15 years and was syndicated in 25 major newspapers. MAMMA'S ANGEL CHILD IN TOYLAND follows the titular little girl - much more of a troublemaker than her looks let on - through a slightly surreal and visually stunning adventure among fairies and living toys. 8.75'' x 6.25''. Original brown boards with color pictorial onlay. Original unclipped ($1.00) color pictorial dust jacket. 24 full-page color plates and 4 smaller color illustrations, with numerous smaller black-and-white illustrations (cw: depiction of golliwog doll). 116 pages. Small bookseller label to rear pastedown "Strauss Toy Shops New York." Light pencil checks on rear inner flap of jacket. Jacket with some soil, small closed tears; chip to top of spine. Binding with light bumping, tiny hole to spine; a bit of sunning to top of spine. Leaves with occasional marginal soil, colors bright. Very good plus in very good minus dust jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.