Mother Goose Melodies Thomas Nast this early Peanuts compendium is

this early Peanuts compendium is notoriously difficult to secure in superior condition due to the inherent structural fragility of its softcover format

and two tiny spots of color loss resulting from that scrape for what is a really lovely copy of the dust wrapper

functioning simultaneously as portable calendars

this extraordinarily intimate

with minor soiling and spotting

Mother Goose Melodies Thomas Nast this early Peanuts compendium is(Mother Goose) MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES. New York: McLoughlin Bro's, (1894). Folio 12 1 8" x 9 7 8". Color pictorial glazed card wrappers with rubbing and wear to the corners, edges and spine, creasing to the front cover and soiling to the back cover; the tail of spine with a 3 3 4" split and three pinprick holes starting on the front wrapper and continuing through the book where evidently a no longer existent sewn repair of the split was located for