Description
Here is a scarce book, Robinson Crusoe, His Man Friday, illustrated by Wizard of Oz illustrator John R. Neill. Copyright 1908 by Reilly & Britton, this is one of the Children’s Stories that Never Grow Old series. This is the earliest printing of this series–it’s a dark blue binding with daisies. Unlike the later Children’s Red Book series, it just contains the one story but still has the lavish color endpapers, a color title page and frontispiece, and color illustrations on many of the 29 numbered pages. This is an original Reilly & Britton edition, first of the Neill Crusoes they published.
The book is in good condition, with wear typical of these fragile paper-covered boards. The front cover is nice, with faint old pencil writing, the fragile spine is missing about half of the paper cover, and the rear cover has some reddish scuffing. Inside is very good–the endpapers are clean and the binding is still snug, Book Belongs To box is blank. Pages have some finger soiling as shown. Still a quite attractive book.
See the last photo for the others in this series I’m listing today.
