Jolly Animals
New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Rand McNally, 1930, 1st, A-30; grey-brown silk boards with large black plate with yellow titles and border, and the duckling, pig, dog, and goose; cream endpapers with a garden scene with the Little Old Dame and the Animals; heavy coated paper, 7 plates and about 36 coloured illustrations in text, black and white on alternate spreads; 9.5x10.7"; 111 pp. PIcture book hardback.
Funny illustrations to these seven stories, by a versatile illustrator who worked in the advertising industry (Elsie the cow) and illustrated the 1940 Dick and Jane, as well as designing rubber Halloween masks and exhibiting as a fine artist.
CONDITION: Good Plus; no names or other marks, extremities worn through to card and bumped, boards and paste-on plate show light even soil, tight and straight, endpapers and pages very clean and unwrinkled (quarter inch sticker pull tear on fep). Item #21060
Price: $45.00