#511

Five Children's Drawing Books and Boxes with Shirley Temple Theme, Her Personal Copies
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Including a boxed set. 18" x 11", "Shirley Temple, My Coloring Box", with paints, shapes, illustrations and instructions; 11" x 8", "Shirley Temple Drawing Book", designed by Corinne and Bill Bailey, Saalfield, 1935, hardbound; 12" x 13" ,"This is My Crayon Book", designed by Corinne and Bill Bailey, Saalfield, 1935, with die-cut image of Shirley popping atop the book; 14" x 13", "Shirley Temple, A Great Big Book to Color", Saalfield, 1936; and 13" x 10", "Shirley Temple at Play", Saalfield, 1935. These were Shirley Temple's personal copies and preserved impeccably by her, excepting one image in "Shirley Temple at Play" that she has lettered in childish script "To Mrs Verbeck For You Shirley Temple".