Simon And Schuster, New York 1939.

First edition, First Printing: Fine book with the extremely scarce near fine original dust jacket in beautiful condition. Requisite1939 date on the title page.

The book is in stunning fine condition with crisp bright matte illustrated clean boards. The boards have sharp corners and no edgewear. The binding is tight and square. The colorful end papers are clean with light toning but with NO scribbles, NO bookplates, No owner names, and NO bookstore stamps. The interior pages are strikingly crisp, clean, bright and flat for a children’s book (which is most unusual as they tend to be found with writing, crayon marks, scribbles, torn pages and other issues that revolve with children’s books). Instead this book has clean rigid pages, with sharp corners and no stains, no bent pages, no handling marks, no writing and are in perfect condition. Beautiful fresh book withOUT the typical damage found to the boards and pages!

The original price clipped first edition jacket has benefited from very slight restoration to the outer spine tips and presents in stunning near fine condition. The dust jacket jacket has strong vibrant colors and is bright and fresh with no edgewear, no chips, no rips, no creases, no fading, no rubbing, no foxing and no stains. As scarce as this title is in the first edition, the jacket is most of the time not even present, yet alone in this condition. Please see multiple images.

An exceptional copy of this classic rare book, in extremely rare condition, presenting nicely on the shelf. Bemelmans' iconic title which launched this children’s series still continued today.

Please see our stores on Ebay, and MeierAndSons.com for other rare children's book and original illustration art (including several original pieces of art by Bemelmans)

Please note the cost to ship reflects the actual cost to ship using USPS, and the cost of insurance at the USPS rate of $1.00 per $100.00 of value. The cost of insurance is reflected as a handling charge on your invoice, but is actually only the cost to fully insure the book.