The Red Goose Book, Forty-Eight Pages of Variety

  • Kenosha, Wisconsin: John Martin's House, Inc, 1946
Kenosha, Wisconsin: John Martin's House, Inc, 1946. Frances HEILPRIN, Jo McMAHON, Carton MOOREPARK. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED]. James & Jonathan Company, Kenosha, Wisconsin, copyright. Francis HEILPRIN, Jo McMAHON, Carton MOOREPARK, and others, illustrations.

4to (11" x 8 ¼"); [44]pp; color pictorial boards, brightly colored pictorial of two geese on the front and rooster on the rear; color title in a banner on the front board; color pictorial eps; color illustrations throughout; bottom edge scuffed with loss, bottom corners bumped, lightly aged paper; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket lacking price, rear flap has publisher's ad, small rubs and chips to edges, 1' closed tear on rear bottom; very good in very good dj. OCLC locates 6 copies. Brightly colored illustrations decorate the compiled stories, rhymes, and word games. Unusual find in this condition with a dust jacket. Stories from Aesop, a Nonsense Alphabet from Edward Lear, and familiar nursery tales are renamed and edited. Additionally, there are two activity pages for painting and writing poetry.

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Title

The Red Goose Book, Forty-Eight Pages of Variety

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

John Martin's House, Inc: Kenosha, Wisconsin

Date

1946


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