THORNTON W. BURGESS - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED 11/22/1927 - HFSID 286883
Price: $200.00
THORNTON W. BURGESS
Autograph Sentiment signed on a 4x2½ card in 1927
Autograph Sentiment signed: "Your sincere story/friend,/Thornton
W. Burgess/November 22, 1927", 4x2½ card. Thornton Waldo Burgess
(1874-1965), a young widower, began creating bedtime stories for his young son.
These proved the origin of a series several dozen books with animal
characters, beginning with Old Mother West Wind (1910). His best
known character was Peter Cottontail. From 1912 to 1960, Burgess wrote a
syndicated daily newspaper column, "Bedtime Stories." From 1925 he hosted a
popular radio show, the Radio Nature League, and all his stories extolled nature
and its conservation. His last book, published in 1960, was Now I
Remember: Memoirs of an Amateur Naturalist. Pencil note (unknown hand) on
verso. Ink note (unknown hand) on verso. Lightly toned. Otherwise fine
condition.
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