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KING (JESSIE M.)
Mummy's Bedtime Story Book by "Marion", FIRST EDITION

16 – 31 August 2011, 11:00 BST
Edinburgh

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KING (JESSIE M.)

Mummy's Bedtime Story Book by "Marion", FIRST EDITION, colour frontispiece, plates and illustrations throughout by King, text by Mrs Alexander Gemmell ("Marion"), publisher's pictorial boards, original glassine wrappers printed "5/- Net" (minor loss to spine), 4to, Cecil Palmer, [1929]

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A fine copy in the exceptionally rare original glassine wrappers.

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