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Down Huckleberry Hill.
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Track the woes of the dog-catcher's van as it tears down the hill, and down the page, scattering all before it. The young reader can help out "Catch the mustard jar if you want some on your hot dog!" Please note: THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SOLD
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Down Huckleberry Hill.
/Leonard Weisgard, illustrator.
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, (1947) first or early printing; tan boards with the dog-catcher's wagon knocking over a fruit stand, endpapers with dogs of about 20 different breeds: a Dalmatian, a Scottie, a Boston Terrier.... escaping from the dog-catcher; in a jacket with repentant dogs peering wistfully out through the wire mesh of the van (they love you, they didn't mean to run away); dynamic illustrations, all in tones of brown, running across the gutter on every spread; oblong, 10.5x8.25"; np.
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CONDITION: Very Good in Very Good jacket; no name, slanted about 1/16"; corners and spine straight, light reading wrinkles and tan margin spot on first few pages and on bottom edges, otherwise clean and flat, very nice endpapers, tiny nick in gutter of rep; in jacket with spine ends and all creases rubbed and 3/8" wrinkled spine tear; clipped but publishers 2.00 stamp.
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18984