Animals by Smart Adam (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ralph Berry (illustrator). Large soft cover with string tied binding.Very Good+. Covers show some age darkenting. Charming one color illustrations by Berrry.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Berry, Ralph (illustrator). Contains single color illustrations of animals. Title and image printed on front cover in blue. Binding cord knotted on the exterior of the spine. Slight wear to top edges of covers and to corners. Large 4to.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Berry, Ralph (illustrator). Presentation copy of a collection of humorous verse, with each page bearing an illustration (in different colors) of an animal, and a rhyming quatrain written by Alfred Sutro (under the pen name Adam Smart), a prominent San Francisco lawyer, book collector, and long-time president of the Book Club of California. The book was dedicated to his grandchildren, and this copy was presented to "my darling granddaughter Elizabeth, from her grandpa, September 21, 1936". Stapled in cream paper wraps. Unpaginated. Wear to the edges of the wraps, slight toning throughout. 12.5 x 9.5".

Paperback. Condition: Very good overall. A sweet illustrated, signed presentation copy of rhyming children's book by Alfred Sutro a.k.a. Adam Smart. Sutro (1869-1945), was a prominent San Francisco attorney, well-known book collector, and President of the Book Club of California. The charming illustrations are printed in a single color with the animals and scenery defined sometimes by the color, and also by the absence of color. It includes one of a kangaroo "Kangaroo," cried Missus Kangie, "Please cast off that painful grouch, All our baby kangaroosies Now are snuggled in my pouch." Other animals include bees, an owl, elephants, goats, tigers, and sheep. The inscription to Smart's grandchild reads- "For Grandmother Marie Wright to entertain her grandchild with the very cordial greetings of grandfather Alfred Sutro (Adam Smart) San Francisco, March 1, 1938". 4to (9.5 x 12.5"), 31 unpaginated pages, illustrated by Ralph Berry in vivid monotone color. Original cream paper wrapper with blue illustration of animals surrounding the title, string tie binding. Wrapper slt. ruffled at top edge, internally clean and bright. OCLC: 15034777 records 4 copies. Not found on Trove.