The Story of the String and How It Grew

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The Story of the String and How It Grew

$150.00

“Sam Plank.” Illustrated by Crawford Young. NY: Artemus Ward, 1916. Onlong 8vo. First edition. Cloth backed color pictorial boards.

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With color illustrations by Crawford Young throughout and a real string that forms a part of each picture and snakes from page to page. Not only ingenious (the string changes from a lasso to a jump rope to a tight rope and more), but amazing that such a delicate mechanism has survived more than 100 years. In About Fine condition.