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Maxfield Parrish, Louise Saunders

The Knave of Hearts

Charles Scribner's Sons

1925

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Inscribed first-edition presentation copy of Saunders's The Knave of Hearts.

  • Louise Saunders (American).
  • Illustrations by Maxfield Parrish.
  • New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
  • Folio.
  • Inscribed on the half-title "For Peggy Frothingham, With love and best wishes for a happy Christmas. Louise Saunders. 1936."
  • Bound in publisher's original black cloth, pictorial front cover, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers.


Louise Saunders had five daughters. The recipient was Margaret F. ("Peggy") Frothingham Buck, the sister-in-law of Saunders daughter Bertha Saunders Perkins Frothingham.

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Head and foot of spine slightly rubbed with some minor loss.

Damp stain to spine affecting lower edge of text block. 

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First Edition, Signed

Language

English

Subject

Association items, Modern first editions, Illustrated, American Literature, Novels

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