LUCY BROWN AND MR. GRIMES

London New York Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1937. Very good plus in good dust jacket.. First US edition of Edward Ardizzone's second book, the story of a lonely girl who befriends a lonely old man - a rare title in the original dust jacket. LUCY BROWN AND MR. GRIMES is a companion in size and format to Ardizzone's first book, LITTLE TIM AND THE BRAVE SEA CAPTAIN. This is a particularly rare title in his much-lauded picture book oeuvre. 13'' x 9''. Original cloth-backed color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($2.00) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [64] pages, printed one side only. Jacket with several moderate to large chips with attendant edgewear, a few tiny holes; several small tape repairs to verso. Binding with light edgewear. Leaves with scattered foxing; offsetting to endpapers. Sound.