The Life and Adventures of General Spooley; a Story of a Toy Soldier.
/DWCFalls, illustrator.
London: Ernest Nister; New York: E. P. Dutton; #3227 (1.1. on top board, 11 on title page) 1911; red and white paper boards with large illustration of a mounted General Spooley commanding his new spool soldiers; plain endpapers, red cloth spine; 12 chromolith plates, including frontis, and many b/w illustrations in text; 8.25x9"; 59 pp.
Picture Book hardback
CONDITION: Very Good; no names, clean bright boards with rubbed edges and extrems, especially bottom corners, edges toned, some neat margin tears (archival tape enclosed). Recently professionally tightened.
$225.00
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$225.00
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20413 Already a little tree with a glorious future in mind, our tree witnesses a Great War (Civil War) battle with a victorious Union Army. He decides that he wants to become a general, so he grows straight and tall. He is chosen for toy shop lumber and becomes the leader of 11 wooden soldiers for Tommy's Christmas.