Nicholas and the Golden Goose

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00), red topstain, pictorial endpapers printed in blue; x,259pp.; color frontispiece, one leaf of photographic illus. in rear, half-tone illus. throughout. Dust jacket rather toned along margins and spine panel, cloth a bit scuffed, especially at spine ends and corners, faint dampstain affecting bottom of jacket spine panel and bottom gutter edge of textblock, topstain damp-spotted, smudging to fore-edge, else a Very Good, sound copy.

Follow-up volume to Moore's 1924 storybook Nicholas: A Manhattan Christmas Story. Here Nicholas travels over to Europe, witnessing the aftermath of the destruction to the French countryside during World War I, while also peppering his travels with visits to local celebrities, like Ellen Terry in London, and Beatrix Potter in the Lake District.