Good: free front endpaper missing; solid, unmarked; corners bumped and worn; several of the b&w drawings, including the first one, have been colored in (brightly and carefully); spine tips bumped. Hardcover, 7.5", 1 3/16" thick; 94 thick pages. Color plate on front, pussy sleeping at work while the mice play, with a continuation of the picture showing mice peeking on the spine. 6 Stories for children including : Little Pink Pig and his Three Legged Stool, The Twins and the Picnic, Little Boy Blue, Betty, How Dicky spent a Long, Long Day. . Color frontispiece entitled "When Pussy Sleeps", line drawings in the text.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Dumpy Book for Children.

Publisher

Thomas Nelson and Sons, no date, circa ., London

Publication Date

1930

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Color frontispiece entitled "When Pussy Sleeps", line drawings in the text.

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"Heritage members" of Abebooks, among the first 50 or so sellers to sign up with Rick Pura who invented it to sell his wife's books from Victoria BC. We specialize in children's quality literature and picture books, and take pride in our condition and shipment standards. Over 6,000 children's titles are listed on our own webpage at www.oldchildrensbooks.com, which has many more images, additional information on our books, about 30 browse catagories, German, French, and children's reference sections, a detailed search engine, and general information and links. We also have about 1000 titles in music, especially folk or fiddle music, and a few thousand misc. titles. We have long experience with children's literature and are delighted to respond to questions about books and authors. We are happy to answer inquiries for titles, authors, topics or themes. We maintain a Looking for a (Children's) Book forum at www.oldchildrensbooks.net We observe the Antiquarian Bookman / ABAA professional guidelines on grading and returns (which too often these days are not followed) and are members of Columbia Booksellers Association.

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Truman Price & Suzanne Price / oldchildrensbooks
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