The First Doll in the World.
New York: Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, 1961, 1st; cream reinforced pictorial binding with Twinkle cradling her doll on a green background on both top and bottom board, plain endpapers, all pages are printed on same cream stone coloured paper with green and dark brown illustration; in jacket identical to boards, 8x10"; np. Picture Book Hardback.
Twinkle, a little girl of the Stone Age, longed for something, but as yet it had no name. Nothing could console her. Brawn, her family's wolf dog, scratched in the dirt so she could see how to draw her thought. Out of soft strips of reindeer fur and twigs and vines, her mother made her a barrel body and a little face, the first doll. "Twinkle hugged it close all day/And slept with it at night./She knew there ought to be a doll,/And Twinkle was quite right." SIGNED, dated 1961, and with her acquisition number, by Lucile Morrison, author of Lost Queen of Egypt, editor of Doll Dreams, and prominent as The Doll Lady in the Los Angeles area during the 1930's.
CONDITION: Near Fine in Very Good jacket; straight, tight, clean, with small sticker shadow on fixed rear endpaper; in clean jacket with margin edge bumps and 1/4" tear along spine and back (no chips) and 1.5" neat closed tear to front not affecting title; unclipped 2.75. Item #20404
Price: $85.00