[Rarebooks] Mcloughlin Chromo children's Books w/ "N" word
Garry R Austin
mail at austinsbooks.com
Wed Oct 3 15:11:54 EDT 2012
We offer for your consideration this small but interesting lot of c1870 Mcloughlin children's books. All were found in a Vermont household. We offer the lot postpaid at $675.00
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Uncle John's Drolleries; Simple Addition By A Little Nigger. New York: McLoughlin, nd, circa 1870.
Quarto. Unpaginated; three double page and two single page chromolithographic plates plus the cover; Original printed pictorial chromolithographed wrappers. A good or better copy. Spine worn and reinforced by a thread sewn along the length.
Rare Mclouglin piece from the Uncle John's Drolleries series. A variation on the Ten Little Niggers, "One little nigger feeling rather blue, whistled out another nig and that made two" etc...
Grandmother Goose's Series; Nursery Jingles. New York: McLoughlin, nd, circa 1870.
Quarto. Unpaginated; one double page and five single page chromolithographic plates plus the cover; Original printed pictorial chromolithographed wrappers. A good or better copy. Spine lightly worn and reinforced by a thread sewn along the length. Previous owner's name lightly in pencil dates the book to 1868.
Aunt Matilda's Series; Robinson Crusoe. New York: McLoughlin, nd, circa 1870.
Quarto. Unpaginated; six single page chromolithographic plates plus the cover; Original printed pictorial chromolithographed wrappers. Very good. Spine lightly worn at head. Clean & bright.
Aunt Kate's Series; Aladdin. New York: McLoughlin, nd, circa 1870.
Quarto. Unpaginated; six single page chromolithographic plates plus the cover; Original printed pictorial chromolithographed wrappers. Very good. Spine lightly worn at foot. Clean & bright.
Garry R Austin
mail at austinsbooks.com
Austin's Antiquarian Books
PO Box 730
Wilmington, VT 05363
802 464-8438
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