Four titles from The Hump Tree Stories. Dickey Swift, the Squirrel: His Escape; Black Hawk, The Sky Pirate; Humper, The Green Worm; Black Brother
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Company, 1910. Four volumes, measuring 8 x 6.5 inches: [6], 10, [4]; [6], 6, [4]; [6], 9, [1]; [6], 8, [2]. Publisher’s color pictorial side-stapled wrappers, spines hole-punched and bound together with linen cord as issued, pictorial endpapers printed in green. Cover illustrations, frontispieces, head- and tailpieces printed in green and brown. Light shelfwear, lower right corner of first volume bumped, lower left corner of last volume reinforced with archival tissue.
A quartet of first editions of Mary Joss Jones’s Hump Tree Booklets. The stories feature the adventures of the wildlife who live under the protective canopy of the Hump Tree, an old-growth arbor: “all the time through the hot, still air came the song of the Woodland People.” The complete series comprised eight tales, bound separately in wrappers as the Hump Tree Booklets, and issued simultaneously in a single volume as The Hump Tree Stories. This bound group of four booklets, series-numbered 8, 3, 2, and 4, respectively, appears to have been issued in this format by the publisher, as evidenced by similar copies that have come to market. Remarkably fresh, near-fine examples of this uncommon children’s series from San Francisco bookseller and publisher Paul Elder.
Price: $200.00