A Good House for a Mouse
New York: Julian Messner, 1940, 1st nap; brown cloth-baked illustrated boards with dark brown litho of little girl cuddling baby mice; endpapers with mouse family pattern, with drawings throughout in the same colour and style, in jacket identical to boards; 6.75x9.25. Picture Book hardback.
Spring cleaning threatens, and the blankets in the bedroom closet must be aired. But Dinny knows that a family with five little mice lives there and she sets out to save them. Pasted in on the blank back of the free rear endpaper is a typewritten Fyleman poem "I think mice/ Are rather nice" The paste has not stained the illustrated endpaper at all so it seems more an addition than a flaw. Wilkin's name is listed as illustrator, but she is not even mentioned on the flap blurb: until the late 30's, much of her art work was published as paper dolls or readers so this is a relatively early full length book. Sweet pictures of a healthy-looking, gentle little girl; somewhat different from her later style.
CONDITION: Near Fine in Very Good Plus jacket; tight and straight, no names, lightly rubbed bottom edge, sharp corners, in jacket with rubbed creases on spine, 1/16" rubs at spine ends, 1" neat closed tear; unclipped 1.00. Item #19831
$150