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A Child's Garden of Verses.
Large, beautiful illustrations. Saalfield published several versions of Burd's Child's Garden, both before and after this one, with different cover formats and the same paintings. This version is especially attractive and not as common. Amazing condition. (Shown above with and without jacket.)
Note: This book has been sold.
$185.00
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A Child's Garden of Verses.
/Clara M. Burd, illustrator.
Akron, Ohio: Saalfield Publishing Company, (1930, as to illustrations); paper boards with full colour painting of children raking leaves on pink and rose wallpaper background, blue cloth spine, in jacket identical to boards, full page paintings; 9.5x12"; np.
Picture Book Hardback.
CONDITION: Fine in Very Good Plus jacket; light pencil 1939 gift inscription which could easily be erased, very tight and clean with unwrinkled pages, in lovely bright jacket, unfaded spine, and just a little wear to extrems, about 1/16"; flaps on this editions are simply extensions of the jacket background design and thus no price is evident.
Control Number:
19294 








