Author: UPTON, FLORENCE K; UPTON, BERTHA [VERSE]
Title: The Golliwogg's Desert-Island
Description: London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1906. First Edition. Illustrated board cover with red cloth spine. 220mm x 280mm (9" x 11"). 64pp. 30 full-page colour illustrations. In the name of political correctness, Upton's wonderful golliwog - heroic, gentle, gallant and resourceful - has been lumped together with stereotypes and condemned out of hand. In fact, when picture books were filled with images of white-skinned, golden-haired, blue-eyed children, Upton was the first to use an Afro-Caribbean character as the main protagonist.. G : in good condition. Cover rubbed and marked .

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