Item #31968 Wee Gillis (Signed Limited Edition; Additionally Inscribed with Original Drawings and with a Hand-Printed and Illustrated Card). Children's - Munro Leaf, Robert Lawson.
Wee Gillis (Signed Limited Edition; Additionally Inscribed with Original Drawings and with a Hand-Printed and Illustrated Card)
Wee Gillis (Signed Limited Edition; Additionally Inscribed with Original Drawings and with a Hand-Printed and Illustrated Card)
Wee Gillis (Signed Limited Edition; Additionally Inscribed with Original Drawings and with a Hand-Printed and Illustrated Card)

Wee Gillis (Signed Limited Edition; Additionally Inscribed with Original Drawings and with a Hand-Printed and Illustrated Card)

New York: Viking Press, 1938. First edition. Cloth. Small quarto. Unpaginated. The classic children's book written by Munro Leaf with drawings by Robert Lawson. This is the "Thistle Edition", a special edition in burlap covers limited to 525 copies SIGNED by both author and illustrator. Slight wear at edges else a handsome very good or better copy. Lacks the glassine wrapper and slipcase that originally housed the book. This however, is a special copy indeed with a full page inscription with original drawings signed by Munro Leaf. The drawings tell a story of one Violet Brown, a nurse who apparently was on hand for the birth of Leaf's son James in February 1941 (see photo for more details). Also, laid in to this copy is a hand printed and illustrated card to this "watchbird" (presumably Nurse Brown) who watched Margaret and Munro watching Andy watching his new brother "Gill" James Gillespie Leaf who was born January 19, 1941 at Harkness Pavilion Presbyterian Hospital in N.Y. (see additional photo for further details. A totally charming set of drawings and inscription. Very Good. Item #31968

Price: $750.00