Millions of Cats 1st/1st 1928 w' Rare Ex Libris Bookplate

Millions of Cats 1st/1st 1928 w' Rare Ex Libris Bookplate

SCARCE * Millions of Cats 1st Printing / 1st issue 1928 Wanda Gag in excellent condition. Written and Illustrated by Wanda Gag Published by Coward-McCann, New York, 1928. First Edition (all points present). Oblong 8vo. First edition, first issue with Jersey City Printing Co. on bottom of copyright page in a first issue Facsimile dust wrapper / Jacket Bright VERY fresh Boards with minimal rubbing; interior is fresh and bright. Pages are crisp and clean. PO bookplate on front inner boards. and 3144 stamped on top inner edge of first page. An Outstanding copy of a 20th century classic, very rare in the first issue, more so in such nice condition. This book was a 1929 Newbery Honor Book. If it had the original dust jacket it would command $4,000 & more.I have wrapped jacket in mylar for protection.

EX LIBRIS NOTE: The bookplate is from Hiram Edmund Deats library .... (1870–1963), of Flemington, New Jersey, was a philatelist especially acclaimed for his collection of revenue stamps Deats formed one of the finest libraries of philatelic books and literature in the United States, which, in 1952, he donated to the Free Library of Philadelphia. This adds considerable value to the book.

*NOTE:Millions Of Cats is considered the first true picturebook. (For rationale, please see Children's Picturebook Price Guide, Chapter 1, Today's Golden Era Of Picturebooks; Development And Evolution of the Picturebook Market; Beginning of the Modern Picturebook.)

Item ID: 2238

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