Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 469
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) The Entertaining History of Giles Gingerbread, a Little Boy who Lived upon Learning. 4 plates. 24 pages. 24mo, original marbled wrappers, minor wear; minor foxing and dampstaining, paper flaw on 5th text leaf; early gift inscription on rear free endpaper. (MRS) Philadelphia: Benjamin C. Buzby, 1815

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The only other known copy of this edition per OCLC and Welch 450.6, at Florida State University, is missing 4 pages. However, the American Antiquarian Society has a complete copy unrecorded in those sources.