Very handsome copy with pictorial paste-down on the front boards, red linen spine, and clean finely woven red cloth rear boards. Very clean and tight throughout with very bright colored plates in crisp register. Handsomely bound with sewn signatures. A near fine copy with name and date in ink at the top of the front pictorial endpaper. In the original dust jacket, later state with "Trade Mark" slug beneath the title. A collectible copy of this inspiring story illustrated by Lois Lenski. Early Edition with 1930 copyright and no subsequent printings. Titles end with "Lil' Hannibal" on the half-title page.

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Title

The Little Engine that Could (Early edition in dust jacket). With splendid colored illustrations by Lois Lenski. Retold by Watty Piper from The Pony Engine by Mable Bragg

Publisher

The Platt & Munk Co, New York

Publication Date

1930

Binding

Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Children's LIterature

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We maintain a stock of 10,000 modern first editions ranging from Melville to Updike. We specialize in first editions by Mark Twain, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, P.G. Wodehouse, and John Updike as well as important works of modern detective fiction by Robert B. Parker and Sue Grafton. We are open by appointment only and do most of our business via the internet and by mail.

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Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books
MA, U.S.A.

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