Title: Little Degchie-head an Awful Warning to Bad Babas Author: [Bannerman, Helen] Place: London Publisher: James Nisbet Date: 1903 Description: 139 leaves, printed on one side only. Illustrated on nearly every-other page. 12.5x8.5 cm (5x3¼") original green cloth, stamped in red and black. First Edition. The scarcest title in Bannerman's series that began with Little Black Sambo in 1899. The story of a little white girl who cannot resist poking at fires until one day she falls in and loses her head, after which the cook fashions a temporary head for her from a "degchie" pot. Santa provides her with a more suitable doll's head in the end. Rare. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine leaning, light wear; very good. Item number: 257221
Title: Little Degchie-head an Awful Warning to Bad Babas Author: [Bannerman, Helen] Place: London Publisher: James Nisbet Date: 1903 Description: 139 leaves, printed on one side only. Illustrated on nearly every-other page. 12.5x8.5 cm (5x3¼") original green cloth, stamped in red and black. First Edition. The scarcest title in Bannerman's series that began with Little Black Sambo in 1899. The story of a little white girl who cannot resist poking at fires until one day she falls in and loses her head, after which the cook fashions a temporary head for her from a "degchie" pot. Santa provides her with a more suitable doll's head in the end. Rare. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine leaning, light wear; very good. Item number: 257221
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