Item #55434 Hand shadow stories. Anon.
Hand shadow stories

Hand shadow stories

Boston: Taggard & Thompson, 29 Cornhill [wrapper imprint: Thompson, Bigelow & Brown], 1863. First edition, square 12mo, pp. 32; original stiff pictorial yellow wrappers artlessly rebacked with brown paper; 8 full-page illustrations engraved and signed by W. Roberts, plus several small vignettes; front hinge cracked causing loosening to the binding, library stamp on verso of the fron wrapper. The illustrations, such as Grandpa Jolliboy, Longbeard the Goat, Sambo the Contraband (concerning a freed slave), etc., each with its accompanying story. Item #55434

Price: $125.00

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