Story of Little Black Sambo

by Helen Bannerman

$7,500 · Offered by Heritage Book Shop

First edition

London: Grant Richards, 1899. First edition. Sixteenmo 4 7/8 x 3 inches; 124 x 75 mm . viii, 57, 1, blank , 1, printer’s imprint , 1, blank pp. Twenty-seven full-page illustrations by the author, engraved on wood and color-printed by Edmund Evans. No. 4 of The Dumpy Books for Children.Original pale green cloth lettered and stamped in dark green with ruled borders and vertical stripes. Spine very lightly

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