When Grandma was a Little Girl

  • New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940
By SMITH, Ingrid
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1940. Mela KOEHLER-BROMAN. [JUVENILE] [VERSE] [ILLUSTRATED] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Mela KOEHLER-BROMAN, illustrator. Printed in Sweden.
4to; [20]pp; color pictorial boards on a tan background, illustration of a little girl doing laundry with a scrub board on the front and rear, lettering in black, red cloth shelf back; title page after front pastedown; 9 full page color half-tone pictorials with text on the opposite page; light age-toning; unclipped color dust jacket with a pictorial on a blue background, lacking a price, age-toned edges, a few small closed tears on bottom edge; fine in very good dj. The noted illustrator, Mela Koehler-Broman was an Austrian watercolorist and portraitist who immigrated to Stockholm. Sweet illustrations of child's play are matched with corresponding verse.

"When Grandma was a little girl, / she lived in Sweden and her name was Stina. / She dressed exactly like her Mummy / except that her dress was quite a bit shorter. / She wore a bonnet, soft little slippers / and pantalettes with frills.

Stina was the Mummy of all her dolls. / She was very grown up, / and took good care of them. / HerE is Stina taking the baby / for a walk in the fresh air.".

Details

Title

When Grandma was a Little Girl

Author

SMITH, Ingrid

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

Duell, Sloan and Pearce: New York

Date

1940


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