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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Blegvad, Erik (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. Collection of 28 poems for children, recommended for ages 9+, about nature & farm life, drawn largely from the author's own experiences growing up. Her words are brought to life with the charming pen-and ink illustrations of Danish artist Erik Blegvad. Unpaginated. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1977, SIGNED by the AUTHOR with a personalized inscription in red pen to half-title page, this hardcover small 4to (6.5" x 9.5") has light blue cloth-covered boards lettered in dark green to spine. Very clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white & unmarked, but downgraded to only Fair due to significant dampstain to top edges of both boards & interior pages. Stain shows up only very faintly to DJ, which otherwise is clean bright with slight edgewear in the form of rubbing & short tears/tiny chips to top edge, 1 longer tear ascending from back bottom edges; nicely protected in new mylar cover free! with age-appropriate tanning to edges. Boards show slight rubbing to extremities, bumping to both corners & ends of spine. The unclipped DJ is : colorful with edgewear, small chips, short tears; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Inscribed by Author(s).