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Light staining to covers.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 354 pages.

Hardback. 8vo. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Light edge wear and a few short tears to dust jacket. No names or marks.

Light staining to covers.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 354 pages.

354 pp, blue boards. Rubbing to the jacket faces, as well as some bumping at the jacket corners and the top and bottom of the jacket spine. Some edgewear on boards; some spots of discoloration on spine. Pages yellowed on edges, clean inside. Spine solid and firm. Jacket Condition: Good. Size: 12mo-over 6 3/4 in-7 3/4 in tall. Year: 1929.

Book Condition: Good/Very good. Light foxing on some inside pages. Page 15-16 is loose. no dj. boards are moderately stained.

This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Orange cloth binding, decoritively stamped on the frnt cover; titling and decorations in gilt on the spine. Clean text; two pages of ads and two illustrations precede the Title Page. 226 pages, with a six-page advert in the rear. Mildly bumped; slight lean; mild soiling to covers; head of spine rubbed. There are four tiny black dots, of a mysterious nature, on the rar cover. A solid copy that presents nicely.

12mo, 6 volumes, illustrated. TItles as follows: My Boys, Etc., Shawl-Straps, Cupid and Chow-Chow, My Girls, Etc., Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc., and An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. All volumes dated 1885 on the title page (except for "My Girls, " dated 1884). Bound uniformly in the publisher's brown cloth, with elaborate gilt spines, as issued. Printed on slightly cheaper paper than the first printings, the pages have mild, even browning, and there are a few stray pencil markings. Some nicks to the spine ends and corners, but quite sharp; a bright, crisp, sound set, very good or better. A set with appealing provenance, bearing the ownership signature of Anna B. Rockefeller (as well as a gift inscription to her, from "Edna") on the opening blanks of volume I. Anna Beatrice Rockefeller was the niece of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.; the daughter of his brother Franklin. Complete sets of the first printings of the "Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag" series are difficult to compile, especially in uniform condition or binding cloth. This set, which was certainly purchased as a single unit as a gift to the young Miss Rockefeller, is pleasingly intact and well-preserved; a reasonably priced substitute for a set of first printings.