Timid Timothy: The Kitten Who Learned to be Brave.
New York: Young Scott Books, (1944) possible 1st or early; yellow boards with Timothy sitting in the flowers and looking askance at a mouse; endpapers with Timothy and some (terrifying) stuffed animals, in dustjacket identical to boards, 8x5.5"; np. Picture Book Hardback.
Weisgard fills the pages of this small book almost to the edges, so that the creatures which frighten Timothy seem to lurk with real menace, even though the small listener knows they are harmless.
CONDITION: Good Plus in Good jacket; name and number on title page, straight and clean, light spot on front cover, light rubs and bumps to extremities, but with 1/2" bump to top corner, top corners of all pages neatly numbered by an adult in pencil; in jacket with neat edges, rubs to spine ends and tiny pull tear; it is foxed on the inside, which only dulls the front but is visible in areas of the back, and a light moisture stain on back, none of this affects boards; unclipped 1.25. Item #19820
Price: $60.00