Children of Spring Deserts Internally pristine

Internally pristine

blue and red to front wrapper

(Early American) THE CAT AND THE MOUSE

An exceptional

unexpurgated publication in the United States until 1959 and the United Kingdom until 1960 following high-profile obscenity trials

Children of Spring Deserts Internally pristine(Humphrey, Maud) illustrator. CHILDREN OF SPRING with illustrations in colors and monotint by Maud Humphrey; verses by Edith M. Thomas. New York: Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1888, (1888). FIRST EDITION. 4to 7 5 8" X 10". Light blue stiff paper wrappers with serrated edges, bound with a gold and white cord with title, illustrator and author printed in black on upper wrapper; a celluloid plaque with an embossed image of a young girl, sewn through