Little Squeegy Bug: Signed (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. SIGNED BY BILL MARTIN on the front free endpaper as follows: "With best wishes | Bill Martin Jr." Third Printing, Revised, March, 1946 per the copyright page. Additional cover title: Story of the Firefly. 4to. (28 cm.) unpaged [36p. including free endpapers. Profusely illustrated throughout with full color drawings presumably by the Martins. Endpapers are full color drawings. Color decorated paper over boards. Some wear to extremities with the paper rubbed through on the corners, paper chips missing at top and bottom of spine, gift inscription on the title page dated 1949, front free endpaper just starting to come loose with no loss, covers very lightly soiled, all illustrations in fine condition, else very good to near fine with no internal markings. No dust jacket. William Ivan Martin, Jr. (1916-2004) was an American educator, publishing executive, and author of more than 300 children's books. Born in Hiawatha, Kansas, Martin attended college at Kansas State Teacher's College and earned a doctorate in early childhood education from Northwestern University (1961). The Bill Martin Jr. Award, which is the Kansas state award for best children's picture book, was established in his honor in 1996. During World War II, Martin served in the Army Air Force as a newspaper editor and wrote his first book, THE LITTLE SQUEEGY BUG, published in 1945 with illustrations by his brother Bernard Martin. Eleanor Roosevelt praised the book in her syndicated newspaper column, "My Day," and it eventually sold 1 million copies. He wrote an additional ten books with his brother. An extraordinary children's book and rare to find signed. Bernard Martin (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…