This small-format hardcover children’s book is an early edition of Helen Bannerman’s influential and controversial work, The Story of Little Black Sambo. The volume is bound in teal-blue cloth-covered boards featuring the distinctive black printed decorative borders of birds, windmills, and foliage associated with the Dumpy Books for Children series, published by Grant Richards. A central colour illustration is pasted to the front cover. The interior contains full-page colour illustrations by the author throughout, with text on the facing pages. The narrative introduces the characters Black Mumbo and Black Jumbo. This edition conforms to the physical characteristics of the early printings of the work issued between 1899 and 1905. No publisher’s imprint or date is visible on the provided pages, but the binding design is characteristic of the series.
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