Ernest Owl Starts a School.
New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1954/1952 1st US printing, in green cloth boards with white titles and thick pasted-on plate of Ernest the Owl peering over his spectacles, "Blackberry Farm Books" appearing on top, author, title, publisher on spine, plain endpapers, bright illustrations facing every page, last page with b/w picture and text about the Farm; 5x5.5"; np. Small hardback.
Ernest Owl sets up a school for the bunnies, naughty Mary the chick, the lamb, and the kitten as head boy. Lessons are differentiated for each and the students are very happy. Very bright clear colours, almost like pochoir. The UK Brockhampton series began in 1949 with Emily the Goat. The McKay US reprints are not in the same order. Six Blackberry Farm books were published in this format with green boards in 1954, including Ernest Owl, and two sets of three titles with red boards in 1955, (dates, from library records in Worldcat , may have appeared on later printings) As of this writing, we have eleven in jacket, ask.
CONDITION: Good without jacket; no names or other marks, straight, tight, pages and plate very clean, upper back corner of cloth board shows very faded moisture damage on corner for about 1" in, and this shows on endpapers and pages as a 1/8" rim along 2" of top and sides of upper corner, no moisture was at or near the spine. Item #21019
Price: $38.00