WIGGIN, Kate Douglas (1856-1923). The Birds’ Christmas Carol . San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co., 1887. The first edition of the author’s rare second book, in exceptionally fine condition and with its original printed dust wrapper. As with her first book, The Story of Patsy (San Francisco, 1883), this work was sold for the benefit of the Silver Street Kindergarten. Its success led to a trade edition published the following year. Extremely rare as it was privately printed in a very small run, and owing to its fragile nature very few are thought to have survived—no copies have appeared on the market in dust wrapper. BAL 22580; Peter Parley to Penrod 86. Octavo (156 x 150mm). Original pictorial cream wrappers, printed in red; original printed pictorial dust jacket of drab paper with the printing of the front wrapper repeated in black; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Natalie Knowlton Blair (1887-1951, noted American collector and bibliophile; morocco Blairhame bookplate on pastedown).
WIGGIN, Kate Douglas (1856-1923). The Birds’ Christmas Carol . San Francisco: C. A. Murdock & Co., 1887. The first edition of the author’s rare second book, in exceptionally fine condition and with its original printed dust wrapper. As with her first book, The Story of Patsy (San Francisco, 1883), this work was sold for the benefit of the Silver Street Kindergarten. Its success led to a trade edition published the following year. Extremely rare as it was privately printed in a very small run, and owing to its fragile nature very few are thought to have survived—no copies have appeared on the market in dust wrapper. BAL 22580; Peter Parley to Penrod 86. Octavo (156 x 150mm). Original pictorial cream wrappers, printed in red; original printed pictorial dust jacket of drab paper with the printing of the front wrapper repeated in black; quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Natalie Knowlton Blair (1887-1951, noted American collector and bibliophile; morocco Blairhame bookplate on pastedown).
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