The Story of Little Black Sambo [with] The Story of Topsy from Uncle Tom's Cabin (The Children's Red Books Vol. II [2])

56, [4] pp. Contains both The Story of Little Black Sambo and The Story of Topsy from Uncle Tom's Cabin. The jolly and exciting tale of the little boy who lost his red coat and his blue trousers and his purple shoes but who was saved from the tigers to eat 169 pancakes for his supper, has been universally loved by generations of children. First written in 1899, the story has become a childhood classic and the authorized American edition with the original drawings by the author has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. This edition includes illustrations by John R. Neill, who also contributed drawings to a number of L. Frank Baum's (and later Ruth Plumly Thompson's) Oz books, as well as several books he authored himself. He also provides illustrations for The Story of Topsy, which is excerpted from Harriet Beecher Stowe's famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which some credit partially with the rise of abolitionism that led to the American Civil War.