Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First printing. 4to. Tan cloth, with front cover illustration. [unpaginated] Verses by Wallace Irwin. Drawings by Edna Morse. Wear and loss to front cover corners and bottom edge, near spine. Soiling to rear cover. One blank preliminary page is loose and laid in. Drawings are bright. No names or marks. An alphabet of full page verses and drawings of birds, from AUK to Zenaidura Macroura. Printed on thick tan paper, with verses and drawings on one side only, facing each other.
Editore: B. W. Dodge & Co, New York, 1908
Da: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good binding. First Edition. A lovely copy of this attractive children's ABC book, in pictorial beige boards stamped in black, red and green and depicting a duck, a rooster, and flamingo and a parrot in "A Bird Cage". With delightful full-page alphabet rhymes and illustrations -- A is for Auk; B is for Bantam; and so forth. Printed on thick paper, and illustrated on one side only in red and black. There is a pencilled gift incription "From Santa Claus" on the pastedown; otherwise unmarked. One leaf has a 1" closed tear. Very Good binding.