Published by Frederick A. Stokes Philadelphia 1942, 1942
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
unpaginated 8vo Illustrated with drawings by Wyncie King Gray cloth, pictorial endpapers First edition Library name handwritten on front endpaper (no other marks) else nice clean tight bright copy: VG/VG- dj (with torn, worn edges).
Published by New York & Philadelphia. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1942
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Wyncie KING, (illustrator). 1st Edition. SIGNED & inscribed by Horte & Wyncie, the author & Illustrator, & Original COLOR DRAWING FRONT DJ GLUED IN OPPOSITE TITLE PG, Inner DJ Flap $1.50, COLOR illustrated Endpapers, HBDJ, 1942 ON TITLE PG & COPYRIGHT. Small Quarto. First Edition. 1st Printong, VG+/VG, Bound in original bluegrey embossed cloth RED LETTERING, DJ with chips at tips and edges. Hinges sound. Overall, very good or better.Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Edge-torn & Chipped. hardcover, partial discoloration of endpapers, corners slightly worn, light wear to extremities, contents lightly toned, Unpaginated, in edge-torn and edge-chipped dust jacket; LARGE ORIGINAL B/W INK SKETCH of boy on bicycle carrying large pie, with cat in basket, by Wyncie King (tag attached to pie says "for Ivor and George"; and on blank facing this sketch, on the half-title page, in ink, "to - Ivor and George with our love - Hortie and Wyncie"; PLUS pen and ink and watercolor rendering of a variant of the image on the dust jacket (girl and boy peering into pie shop window) on sheet mounted on the blank facing the title page Size: 8vo , Foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher ,A interesting and scarce example of the story of two French children, Clare & Jacques in Nazi occupied France during WWII, Madame Bon bon had shop in Village of Routon with Pink Peppermints,Chocolate creams ETC. Signed by Author.