Author: Crane, Walter.
Title: The Alphabet of Old Friends / Puss in Boots (2 Books) [Facsimile Editions, Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library].
Description: London / Tokyo Bodley Head / Holp Shuppan, 1982. Each book: Paperback large quarto, very good plus condition, colour plates (drawings), both in the same cardboard slipcase. 16 + Unnum 20 pp. Facsimile edition. Two classic children's picture books in verse, with interleaved blank pages (Walter Crane's artistic "toy books"). Crane's Puss in Boots was published in 1897, and his alphabet book was published in 1875. (One of a set of 35 handsome facsimiles in 28 slipcases.).

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