The Golliwogg in War! Castaways split spines

split spines

Original publisher's price-clipped second state color pictorial paper dust jacket repeating the design of the book's cover with the addition of titles printed in black to spine

completely sound copy of the book

102) utilizes the firm's signature "butterfly fold" construction

illustrated with eight wonderful full page chromolithographs

The Golliwogg in War! Castaways split spines(Upton, Florence K.) illustrator. THE GOLLIWOGG IN WAR! by Florence K. Upton; verses by Bertha Upton. New York; London; Bombay: Longmans, Green & Co., [1899], (1899). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Oblong 4to 8 11 16" x 11 3 16". Red cloth backed color pictorial glazed paper covered boards with wear to the bottom edges and corners, and minor soiling for what is a nice copy of the book. Swan motif endpapers with darkening to the FFEP and RFEP; vertical crease