BANNERMAN, Helen. The Story of Little Black Sambo, London: Grant Richards, 1899, 16°, FIRST EDITION, illustrations by the author coloured from woodblocks by Edmund Evans (one leaf loose, some leaves almost detached, adhesive marks to inner gutter of pp. 52-57, few leaves spotted, slightly soiled), original green cloth (front cover slightly soiled, extremities rubbed).

细节

BANNERMAN, Helen. The Story of Little Black Sambo, London: Grant Richards, 1899, 16°, FIRST EDITION, illustrations by the author coloured from woodblocks by Edmund Evans (one leaf loose, some leaves almost detached, adhesive marks to inner gutter of pp. 52-57, few leaves spotted, slightly soiled), original green cloth (front cover slightly soiled, extremities rubbed).
Provenance: Edgar Corner (inscription to front free endpaper).

拍品专文

Helen Bannerman wrote Little Black Sambo in 1898 for her two small daughters whom she had to leave in Kodai, a small mountain village in India, while she travelled to Madras to be with her husband. For background information on Little Black Sambo, see Justin G. Schiller "The Story of Little Black Sambo" (Book and Magazine Collector, Autumn 1974).