Product Description
Offering this sweet original copy of "The Diary of a Goose Girl" by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
Pen-and-ink illustrations by Claude A.
Shepperson.
Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1902, 1st edition.
Cream cloth boards with stamped color illustration of a goose girl and lots of geese.
Yellow tinted top edge, deckle side and bottom edges, 117 pp.
B/w illustrations throughout, tissue guard between frontispiece illustration and title page.
Story of a woman who retreats to the English countryside to seek peace and self-discovery in the rural life.
There is a charming, nicely-penned gift inscription inside the front that reads, "Jamie Faust, from Winifred.
Dec.
25, 1908.
" Overall condition is Very Good.
The cover is soiled and there some exposure at corners, but the binding remains strong and secure.
Tissue guard has one-inch side tear.
The endpapers and first few have faint spotting, else pages have only mild, even age toning and are clean, bright and unmarked.
A nice copy! Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was a prominent American educator who established the first free kindergarten in California.
While she wrote The Diary of a Goose Girl during her travels in England, she is most famous for authoring the children's literature classic Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm the following year, in 1903.
Claude Allin Shepperson (1867-1921) was a British artist, illustrator, and printmaker specializing in social scenes and landscapes.
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