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Burton, Virginia Lee
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description
- printed book
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939
In 4s (8 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.; 216 x 235 mm). Pictorial half-title and title and color illustrations throughout by Burton; internally fine. Publisher's pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers; minimal wear. Original pictorial dust jacket; some wear to extremities expertly mended. Green buckram slipcase, spine gilt-lettered.
In 4s (8 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.; 216 x 235 mm). Pictorial half-title and title and color illustrations throughout by Burton; internally fine. Publisher's pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers; minimal wear. Original pictorial dust jacket; some wear to extremities expertly mended. Green buckram slipcase, spine gilt-lettered.
Provenance
Teddy Tarr (signature dated 1939 on verso of half-title)
Catalogue Note
First edition. A bright, fresh copy of one of the most popular American children's books of the last century, signed by Virginia Lee Burton on the half-title. Copies signed by Burton are scarce.