Rose O'NEILL / The Kewpies and the Runaway Baby Signed 1st Edition 1928

The Kewpies and the Runaway Baby. Author: O'NEILL, Rose Title: The Kewpies and the Runaway Baby Publication: Doubleday Doran, 1928.

Inscribed by the author at Christmas in the year of publication: To Somebody the Kewpies love/ from all the band, including Dr. Goldwater and Rose O'Neill. Creator of the Kewpie comic strip, and the inventor of the Kewpie doll, O'Neill was also the first published female cartoonist in the U. And active in the women's suffrage movement. Small (original) price stamp rear flyleaf, slight play in text block, and light crown wear; a very good copy in a good, edge-chipped dust jacket with some tearing at mid-spine. With a letter of provenance from a descendant of Dr. Uncommon signed and in dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings. We deal in rare books, specializing in modern literary first editions. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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