Item #001225 Little Goody Twoshoes
Little Goody Twoshoes

Little Goody Twoshoes

New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1875. Paperback. 6, [2] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Yellow wrapper printed and illustrated in red and black. Part of McLoughlin Brothers' Miss Merryheart's series. Wrapper title. Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper for board games, including The Monopolist, Jerome Park Steeple-Chase, Game of Life's Mishaps, Cats and Mice, Tousel, and Go-Bang. No date of publication, but probably 1870s. Former owner's pencil drawings of sailing ships on inside of back wrapper. In Fair Condition: wrapper is separated along spine and stitching is gone; first and last conjugate leaves are partially separated; wrapper and pages are soiled; lacking upper third of back wrapper; wrappers are chipped and creased; 4-cm. tear in front wrapper from spine with slight loss of color; wrapper also scraped at ends of spine without loss of text or illustration; old dampstain in lower section of back wrapper, not impacting pages; 2-cm. tear from fore-edge of last leaf with loss of text. A very scarce McLoughlin Brothers children's book of the 1870s. Fair. Item #001225

Price: $45.00

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