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New York: Platt & Munk, 1943. Hardcover. Very Good +. Watty Piper was the pen name of Arnold Munk the author of "The Little Engine That Could." Five color illustrations and front cover color pastedown by Lucille W. Holling and H.C. Holling, best known for the book "Paddle-to-the-Sea," a Caldecott Honor Book. Gift inscription on front pastedown, else an otherwise unmarked, clean, bright copy lacking a dustjacket.

The Platt and Munk Co. Inc. Publishers, MCMXXXII, MCMLII 1932 / 1952 Cute previous owner inscription: Your nice if you give it to me if it is lost, includes name and address of Debra Ann Bragg. Some minor stains on lower right hand corner of first few pages, faint. Large red cloth hardcover with black embossed title and cover illustration. Spine has been nicely binding cloth tape reinforced. Wonderfully illustrated endpapers and pages, many of the illustrations are suitable for framing, ideal for a child's bedroom. Stories include: The Rooster and the Fox; The Pine Tree and Its Needles; Olaf and the Three Goats; The Cap That Mother Made; boot and His Brothers; King Midas; the Dog and his Shadow; The Hare and the Hedgehog; How Brother Rabbit Fooled the Whale and the Elephant; How Little Bunny Rabbit caught the Sun; the Little Turtle that could Not Stop Talking; the Shoemaker and the Elves; The Elephant and the Monkey; the donkey's Story; The Stone in the Road; The Star Dipper; the old… Read More

Grosset & Dunlap, 1981. Hard. New. Schories, Pat. date is a guess as this item is in original shrink wrap and we do not want to open it. Miniature fold out book bound in heavy pictorial boards. A Grosset Stretch Book.

New York: The Platt and Munk Co, 1925. Star Edition, 26th Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, unpaginated; VG/G; spine white with pink lettering; full contemporary green and gilt publisher's cloth binding; some shelf wear and soiling; marked wear and soiling to jacket overall; chips at corners missing; marked wear at both flap folds; crown and tail of jacket spine missing; some sunning and wear to jacket spine; multiple small closed tears at upper and lower edges of jacket back; profusely illustrated in full color and black and white; pages clean; shelved above Case 14. Contains remarkably racist caricatures even for the time of publication. 1360644. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc, 1933. Cloth. Fine/very good. Lucilee W. and H.C. [Holling C.] HOLLING. 4to; [3 + 86]; orange cloth over board with color illustrated onlay with title; 5 full page color illustrations including frontispiece; black and white drawings within text; green endpapers; unclipped color illustrated dust jacket lacking price, back flap advertises 8 other publisher's books; light fading to endpapers; closed tears to top and bottom edges, old tape to front flap fold, light soiling to dj; fine in very good dj. First publishing date is 1929, much like Piper and the Holling's other book, Little Folks of Other Lands, which is somewhat a companion book of juvenile non-fiction introducing international customs to English speaking children. Charming, bright full-page illustrations and black and white drawings on every page of text.