BILLY POPGUN

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. Very good.. First edition of Winter's best and scarcest book, a dreamy American fantasy. A fantasy trip taken by little Billy (who had a pop-gun), this book immediately brings to mind similar books by Maurice Sendak in which little boys navigate fantastical landscapes half a century later, such as WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN. 10.5'' x 8''. Original quarter tan cloth, grey paper boards with pictorial paste-on. Green pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Winter with 8 fabulous color plates, plus line illustrations in-text. Limited to 350 numbered copies. 61, [1] pages. Spine soiled, with light edgewear. Interior clean.