The Golliwogg's Bicycle Club. Upton, Florence & Bertha

First Thus (New edition and Format), Longmans, Green & Co. LTD, London. 1967. Hard cover, laminated white, pictorial paper boards, some light handling marks. Grey endpapers, book sellers label on front pastedown, surface tear where a sticker was removed from the front free endpaper, otherwise a very clean and soundly bound copy. Longmans Green & Co. Ltd. first published this book in a larger format Quarto, in 1896. It was reprinted in 1898 and 1920 and then went out of print. This edition is reproduced by photolithography in a reduced size, Extra Crown Octavo, from the original edition, first published in 1967, this is thus a first edition of this re-issue.  A wonderful children's story, Created by Florence Upton and her Mother, Bertha, about a golliwog, (The word Golliwogg, which is no longer considered a socially acceptable word, originated from these books and is listed in the dictionary. It is no-longer politically correct to use the term), these books have become a favourite of collectors since their inception.