LITTLE BOY BOOK

by Helen Hay, Frank Ver Beck

$600 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

First edition

New York: R.H. Russell, 1900 . First edition of this rare large-format Golden Age picture book, illustrated in loose and wild style by Ver Beck, a friend of Stephen Crane known for his comic animal drawings. Very good. Item #38357 In addition to her poetry and children's writing, Helen Hay later Helen Hay Whitney was an active philanthropist and racehorse breeder whose Greentree Stable produced winners of the Kentucky

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