Denslow Alcott & Vintage Hardcover Book Assortment

Updated September 13, 2026

An assortment of four antique and vintage hardcover volumes primarily focused on early 20th-century children's literature and educational subjects. The collection is led by Billy Bounce by W. W. Denslow and Dudley A. Bragdon, a 1906 copyright edition from M. A. Donohue & Company featuring numerous color and black-and-white illustrations by Denslow. This volume includes a printed copyright statement reading Copyright 1906 by W.W. Denslow and an illustrated title page. A 1934 illustrated edition of Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott is included, published by The John C. Winston Company as part of The Children's Bookshelf series with illustrations by Eunice Stephenson. A vintage black and white adhesive label for Hudson's Book Shop Detroit is present on the front endpaper of the Alcott volume alongside a blue-stamped illustration of The Alcott Home. The group is completed by a 1920 copyright printing of The Mastery of Words, Book One by Sarah Louise Arnold, published by Iroquois Publishing Company, and a 1944 second printing of None But a Mule by Barbara Woollcott. The Woollcott volume, published by The Viking Press, contains a printed notice regarding compliance with War Pro

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