The Life of Tom Riley

Flushing, New York: Leonard Books, 1932. Presumed 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. (29) partially unnumbered leaves printed one one side and including 10 full-page illustrations and a number of much smaller ones on some of the text leaves. Original blue cloth backed pictorial boards. 30 cm. Lacks both free endpapers. Copyright notice double-printed. Edges, corners and ends of backstrip rubbed. No jacket. SIGNED by author (as "Audrey Wetjen Leonard," suggesting that she and Jack, listed as the book designer, were related. An appealing, and apparently scarce, children's book about a fast swimming, song-singing, old walrus named Tom Riley who lives in the Far North and decides to go south when food becomes scarce near his iceberg. OCLC locates one copy. (Princeton).