Queer People : With Wings and Stings and their Kweer Kapers
Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers, 1888.
Illustrated by Palmer Cox illustrations. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #15561
Spine covering nearly gone, edgeworn, cover darkening, toned, light soil, 3" front free endpaper gutter tear, two owner's signatures, wear. Still solid oversize hardcover. ; First edition of this collection of fifteen Palmer Cox stories in verse, with his absolutely delightful anthropomorphic birds, insects and other animals. First Edition by Hubbard Brothers per E Lee Baumgarten's authoritative Price Guilde and Bibliographic Check List for Children's and Illustrated Books 1880-1970; later publishers include Edgewood in the 1890s and M A Donahue after 1901. Hard-to-find First Edition of early Palmer Cox book, published the year after his first Brownies book. ; [111] pages.
Price: $69.95