ELISABETH THE COW GHOST

by William Pène du Bois

$3,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

New York: Thomas Nelson, 1936. First edition of Pène du Bois's notoriously scarce first book, about the ghost of a cow who is a little too sweet to scare people. Fine in very good jacket. Item #10312 Earliest version of this tale of the afterlife of the gentlest cow, sold to the publisher when du Bois was only 19 and a student at the Carnegie School of Technical Architecture; seizing the opportunity of this early

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