Important Book, The

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949 Pictorial boards, moderate shelf wear to bottom edge, else clean; matching dust jacket with a few spots of insect damage. Price intact ($1.50). Brown's poetic text focuses on how a child reckons with the world around him or her and finishes off with a reinforcement of individuatlity; "The important thing about you is that you are you." Weisgard's artwork is beautiful and complements the text. See Bader pg. 263. . First Edition. Very Good/Very Good -. 4to.