[Rarebooks] FS: Tim and Tip. James Otis. 1883 1st with Harper's grandson's signature

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It's been a perfect summer day for a boy and his dog....

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Tim and Tip, or The Adventures of a Boy and a Dog by James Otis.
Illustrated by W.A. Rogers. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1883. First
Edition. 16mo. (6.5” x 5”). 179 pp, with 6 pages of ads, Table of
Contents, and List of Illustrations. Frontispiece and 12 additional
full-page, black & white illustrations. Sage green cloth hardcover with
black and gold-toned decoration on spine and front cover. Light sage
floral endpapers.

Good condition (cover soil as evident in the photo;; rub at spine and
corner tips; loose frontispiece page; binding stitching showing but still
intact; foxing, especially on first few pages, and some finger-smudging in
contents; one inch closed tear on one plate). Previous owner’s signature
(Fletcher Harper, Jr.) in blue ink on verso of frontispiece. Old sticker
of South Australian crest on front paste down.

Journalist James Otis Kaler’s second book under the pen name James Otis,
after Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus (1880). Includes charming
illustrations by W.A. Rogers, renowned nineteenth-century political
cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly, The New York Herald, and Life Magazine.
Given the date of publication, the Fletcher Harper Jr. of the signature
found in the book is likely the great-grandson of the original Fletcher
Harper (1806-1877), co-founder of the Harper Brothers printing and
publishing firm in New York. From the obituary of young Fletcher's
grandfather (1828-1890): “Before the death of the first Fletcher Harper in
1877, there was a Fletcher Harper in each of four generations of his
branch of the family. Of these the youngest alone is now left
.”

Scarce in good condition because of its immense popularity among young
boys in the late nineteenth century, this volume is made unique by the
youthful Harper signature.

$55 postpaid in U.S.  At cost elsewhere
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Thanks for looking,  Karen Cinquemani

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