Cupboard now far from bare
Sold for a record $9000 (£7200) in a March 25 sale held by Addison & Sarova (20% buyer’s premium) of Macon, Georgia, was an early best-seller in the children’s book market: the 1805 first of The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog by Sarah Catherine Martin.
In a fine but now broken early 20th century binding of green morocco gilt which has the original, …