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AUTHOR: SAUNDERS, Louise (Maxfield Parish)
TITLE: The Knave of Hearts.
PUBLISHER: NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., folio, illustrated bu Maxfield Parish, inscribed on the half-title "For Peggy Frothingham, With love and best wishes for a happy Christmas. Louise Saunders. 1936." Publisher's original black cloth, pictorial front cover, pictorial pastedowns and endpapers.
CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spine slightly rubbed with some minor loss, damp stain to spine affecting lower edge of textblock. While not a brilliant copy inscribed copies seldom appear on the market.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Louise Saunders had 5 daughters. The recipient was Margaret F. ("Peggy") Frothingham Buck. The sister-in-law of Saunders daughter Bertha Saunders Perkins Frothingham.