Little Ragged Blossom & more about Snugglepot & Cuddlepie 1st Edition with dustwrapper
Gibbs, May
$325.00
Place Published: Sydney
Edition: 1st Edition
Date Published: no date (1920)
Illustrator: profusely illustrated
Size: 4to
May Gibbs children’s classic, being the second Snugglepot & Cuddlepie book; numerous full-page sepia-toned illustrations, 2 full-page colour plates (including frontispiece), b&w text illustrations, illustrated endpapers; green cloth spine, illustrated front board showing background of titling and gumnut leaves, with a central colour overlay of Little Ragged Blossom; includes the scarce original dustwrapper, illustrated to front panel, and with extracts from reviews of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie to rear, and selected A&R titles to rear flap; no publishing date – Trove states 1920 (prelims show “Printed by W.C. Penfold & Co. Ltd”); tanning to endpapers, heavy tanning to printer’s page, heavy offset from colour plate (both pages facing), text block tanned and foxed, minor occasional foxing in text, o.w. G-VG throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, minor loss to head and tail of spine, and folds of flaps, spine tanned and with central closed tears.