The Little House on Wheels
Kansas City, Missouri: Tell-Well press (1953); rich brown paper boards with a little trailer house with a pink roof being towed along by Jim and his family through a mountain valley full of apples and flowers; yellow endpapers with a map of the United States with the little house's route and the crops they picked; in jacket identical to boards; 7.3x11.2. Picture Book Hardback.
"Life in a trailer-house has its ups and downs for Little Jim Dandy whose father is a traveling fruit picker. Whenever the seasons change, the little house on wheels rolls along to a new part of the United States where another crop is ready to harvest.... and wherever they stop, Little Jim finds a new pet until the trailer-house begins to resemble a traveling zoo... Steve Benedict was once a traveling fruit picker himself." Another of the quirky and interesting stories with illustrations to match published by Tell-Well press in the 50's.
CONDITION: Very Good in Good jacket; no names or other marks, tight, very clean boards and pages, straight, extremities quite bumped and rubbed, in jacket with rubbed creases, and rubs and tiny chips to extremities; 3/8" chip on front , a bit faded, still crisp and colourful and has protected the book well; unclipped 1.00. Item #19713
$50