The Donkey Inside [Signed and Inscribed with Original Illustration of a Donkey]

New York: Viking Press, 1943. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Viking Press, 1943. Later Printing. Octavo (length” x width” if useful); 224pp. Publisher’s illustrated dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; boards bound in jute-like cloth with red stamping to front panel and spine; illustrated brown endsheets and red stained edges. Four color illustration spreads throughout. Dust jacket bumped and scuffed; rear panel foxed; flaps toned. Boards a bit bumped and scuffed; spine sunned. Binding sound. Top edge of textblock toned; endsheets and interior pages clean. Very Good copy of this travel memoir. Very Good. Signed and inscribed with an original illustration by the author at half-title page.

Ludwig Bemelman was an author and illustrator best known for creating the picture book series Madeline. Laid-in at front is a previous bookseller's typed card, which indicates that this copy is from the library of Goddard Lieberson, composer and one-time president of Columbia Records.