Author: CHAPIN, ANNA ALICE
Title: The True Story of Humpty Dumpty - How He Was Rescued by Three Mortal Children in Make Believe Land
Description: New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, Inc, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Betts, Ethel Franklin. [2], 3-206 pages. All six color plates present. Attractive color illustration upon front board. Numerous delightful black and white illustrations in text. Gilt lettering upon front board and backstrip. Front endpaper features color illustration of children flying on owl. Lacking back free endpaper. Tape repairs to front hinge. Corresponding 2" x 2" pieces missing from lower portion of front free endpaper and first blank leaf at spine. Binding open at page 62. Small bookseller's label inside back board. Unmarked with somewhat above-average wear to publisher's burgundy cloth. A worthy copy of this most charming classic. 9.25" x 7.25"; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Humpty Dumpty, Ethel Franklin Betts, Anna Alice Chapin. Fair .

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