Description
No Jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Very Good- binding is red cloth over boards, black and grey decorations, lettering and a pasted-on illustration with Little Black Sambo and the tiger on the cover, black lettering on spine, paste on has 2 areas of abrasions. The endpapers have numerous color illustrations, front free endpaper has a corner missing. The binding is tight and pages are clean, with some toning, several neat repairs. Little Black Sambo has a color title page and eight full page color illustrations by John R Neil. The Story of Topsy from Uncle Tom’s Cabin has a color title page and eight full page color illustrations by John R Neil. The publication date is circa 1909. The Children’s Red Books lists Twelve titles. The add pages: The Oz Books list five titles through The Road to OZ (1909):The Twinkle Tales lists six titles: Christmas Stocking Series lists six titles with an introduction by L. Frank Baum.
About the author:
Helen Brodie Cowan Bannerman (25 February 1862 – 13 October 1946) was a Scottish children’s writer. She is best known for her first book, Little Black Sambo (1899). (Wikipedia)
About the Illustrator:
John Rea Neill (November 12, 1877 – September 19, 1943) was a magazine and children’s book illustrator primarily known for illustrating more than forty books set in the Land of Oz. Those books include all but one of those written by L. Frank Baum, as well as those written by Ruth Plumly Thompson, and three that Neill himself wrote. He also illustrated other books, and magazine and newspaper stories.
It has been said that “Neill possessed a sweeping flair and whimsicality that brought Oz even more vividly to life,” and that although Neill “is particularly remembered for his imaginative concepts; his technique, composition, and draftsmanship were equally outstanding.” (Wikipedia)
About the Publisher:
The Reilly and Britton Company, known after 1918 as Reilly & Lee, was an American publishing company of the early and middle 20th century, best known for children’s and popular culture books from authors like L. Frank Baum and Edgar A. Guest. Founded in 1904 by two former employees of George M. Hill’s publishing company, Frank Kennicott Reilly and Charles Sumner Britton. Reilly continued to lead the company until his death in 1932. Britton left the firm around 1916 to start a new company in New York, and for a time the company was guided by William F. Lee, who died in 1924. (Wikipedia)
