Merry Murphy, First Edition (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Lang Campbell (illustrator). 1st Edition. Small 8vo; 36 pages; color pictorial paper boards, red paper spine, illustrated end papers of a well-attended (by animals) County Fair, a very nice copy of this fragile and important little juvenile, near fine but top of spine expertly repaired. Lang Campbell (1882-1937) was an important American book illustrator and cartoonist, best known for illustrating the Howard Garis cartoon series "Uncle Wiggily's Adventures" (begun in 1910). During the 1930's, Campbell also created a few strips and books of his own, including "Piggy Pigtail", "Paddy the Pup", "Dippy Doodlebug", "Bizzy Izzy Humbug", "The Dinky Ducklings", "Duck and Applesauce", "Dicky Bird's Diary," "Merry Murphy" and more. Merry Murphy is a garden potato. He is given thin arms and legs, a little green hat, gloves and red pointy fairy boots by a toad (actually a good fairy). And he begins his adventures. Merry Murphy is illustrated throughout with rebuses (little pictures replacing words) in every sentence. These are amazing, some printed in up to 10 colors! This is a very nice copy of a fragile book usually found, if at all, in terrible condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. New York: Algonquin Publishing Company, 1929. First edition, 1929. Worn. Color illustrated book about an Irish potato with legs and a cane and a little green hat. Sunny Books series, "created by authors and artists who know and love children, and who leave out fear, mischief, cruelty and moralizing". Pictorial hardcover, about 40 pages. Covers worn, particular the corners and spine covering, rear hinge internally reinforced with old clear tape, very short closed tear to the bottom edge of one page, pages clean with a few dark spots to the far top edges of just a few, no names or other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lang Campbell (illustrator). 1st Edition.

1st ed. Hardback small square, no jacket, good condition, pictorial covers, stapled (rebound with new red cloth spine), illustrated endpapers, colour drawings, inside covers lightly toned, covers slightly rubbed, pages lightly toned, edges slightly foxed, some edgewear corners & cover edges. 40 pp. This delightful children's story, written and illustrated by Lang Campbell, is about an Irish potato with legs and a cane and a little green hat, and the jolliest vegetable you ever met. He sets out on his adventures with a cabbage, a carrot, an onion, a cat, a woodchuck, a hen, and a duck who takes him swimming. And, last of all, a cow who wants to visit the County Fair. The colourful small illustrations bring this story to life, and will bring a smile to any face. (From Algonquin Publishing, 1929. Unnumbered pages.).

First Edition. NY: Algonquin Pub, 1929. Squat 12mo, 40pp., full-page color frontispiece, illustrated entirely in color wth hieroglyphic figures. Boards illustrated in color, red paper backstrip a little tender but sound. Rare in anything approaching decent condition. § First edition, a very good copy of this amusing hieroglyphic booklet.