BLACK INTEREST - BANNERMAN, Helen (author and illustrator). The Story of Little Black Quibba. London, James Nisbet & Co., Limited. [1902].
16mo.; original mid-green cloth pictorially stamped in black within recessed panel to upper cover, lettered in red; pp. [v], 6-143, printed on one side of paper only, with integral blanks; illustrated with a total of 36 charming coloured plates; an unusually attractive copy in uncommonly pleasing condition, both externally and internally, with light external rubbing, bruising to spine ends with a couple of minor marks to spine, and tiny wear to upper forecorner tips; internally very good throughout with a little internal cracking, an unobtrusive and inoffensive 8mm closed tear to fore-edge margin of 2 leaves, and a little very occasional light thumbing.
First edition. This is Helen Bannerman's third book following the success of The Story of Little Black Sambo (1899) and The Story of Little Black Mingo (1901). Quibba has an adventure with a snake and an elephant while trying to collect mangoes, to make his mother well. A lively and alternately threatening and reassuring story which doesn't end well for either the snake or the elephant but just fine for Quibba and his mother, thankfully.
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