[CHILDREN] THE KINGS’ DAY

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1940. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Quarto; in glossy pictorial boards with dustjacket; with 47 unnumbered pages, illustrated; printed in red and black, with delightful line drawings by Doris Spiegel; the dustjacket has been price-clipped; there is a penned gift inscription to the top of the front endpaper: “To E.R. from E.R.”; three is some minor creasing and chipping to the edges of the dusjacket.~~The interesting dedication page states “because of Normandy | and | Monique and Christophe Dumesnil”.~~This is Claire Huchet Bishop’s second published book for children, following “Five Chinese Brothers”. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.