Five Works. Charles Dickens (1812-1870), illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) A Christmas Carol, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., undated, publisher's blue cloth with gilt stamping; Clement C. Moore (1779-1863), illustrated by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) The Night Before Christmas, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, no date, publisher's green cloth, (crayon marks); Helen Bannerman (1862-1946) Little Black Sambo, Cleveland: The Harter Publishing Co., 1931, stated first edition, signed by the illustration artist, Fern Bisel Peat, on the title page, printed cloth boards, (spine and frontispiece detached); William Reed Huntington (1838-1909) Sonnets and A Dream, Jamaica, Queensborough, New York: The Marion Press, 1899, number 87 of 100 copies, half leather, (spine strip missing); and Washington Irving (1783-1859) The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., Vol. I, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1895, Westminster Edition, number 20 of 175 copies printed, full leather with gilt stampings.
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