Pictorial boards with cloth spine, light shelf wear else clean and beautiful; matching dust jacket with a few scrapes, wear and tiny losses. Retelling of an old Viennese folk tale about how two close friends learn to accept a new friend. Lively, colorful artwork throughout. Wiesner fled Vienna in 1938 for fear of persecution, ending up in New York where he had intended to start a puppet theater, for which he was famous in his homeland. However, he found more work as an illustrator of children's books and as a muralist. See German Children's & Youth Lit. in Exile pgs 272-3. Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 008055

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Title: Three Good Friends, An Old Story Retold and ...

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, New York

Publication Date: 1946

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: First Edition.

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E M Maurice Books, LLC
358 Ledge Drive, Torrington, CT, 06790, U.S.A.

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