Creature Songs Family life color pictorial glazed paper wrappers

color pictorial glazed paper wrappers with light rubbing along spine for what is a wonderful copy of the book

RARE #000920

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Creature Songs Family life color pictorial glazed paper wrappers(Newell, Peter) illustrator. CREATURE SONGS words and music by Louise Ayres Garnett; illustrated by Peter Newell. Boston: Oliver Ditson Company; New York: Chas. H. Ditson & Co.; Chicago: Lyon & Healy, [1912]. FIRST EDITION. Folio 12 1 2" x 9 3 8". Green cloth covered boards with lettering stamped in gilt and a color pictorial paste label within a gilt stamped border to front cover; paste label and board corners with the slightest touches of rubbing