GRUELLE, Johnny.
Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land.
New York: P.F. Volland Company, 1931.
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Item Number: RRB-152432
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"With a magical Raggedy Ann wish that her pathway through life may be always sunny and bordered with the bushes of candy covered cookies": First Edition of Johnny Gruelle's Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land; Inscribed by Him to Sally Ann in the Year of Publication
First edition of the fourteenth book in Johnny Gruelle's beloved Raggedy Ann series. Octavo, original pictorial paper-covered boards with cloth backstrip, illustrated by the author in color. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Sally Ann - With a magical Raggedy Ann wish that her pathway through life may be always sunny and bordered with the bushes of candy covered cookies - Johnny Gruelle - S. Norwalk Conn - Aug. 21 - 1931." In very good condition.
Johnny Gruelle was an American illustrator, cartoonist, and storyteller who created Raggedy Ann, one of the most enduring characters in all of American children's literature. According to the cherished family account, Gruelle found an old handmade rag doll in his mother's attic, gave it a face and the name Raggedy Ann, and presented it to his young daughter Marcella, whose early death lent the gentle character a lasting poignancy. First introduced in Raggedy Ann Stories in 1918 and joined by Raggedy Andy in 1920, the rag-doll siblings became an American icon, and Gruelle continued their adventures in a long series of tales. Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land sends Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy on a whimsical journey to a magical land of cookies and candy. Gruelle's tender, whimsically illustrated stories, peopled with invented creatures and animated by a spirit of kindness, have remained beloved for more than a century.
Raggedy Ann in Cookie Land.
$1,200.00
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