Howard R. Garis Uncle Wiggily's Picture Book and 44 similar items

UNCLE WIGGILY'S PICTURE BOOK. By Howard R.[Roger] Garis. Illustrated by Lansing Campbell. New York: The Platt Munk Co. Inc., (1940). Reprint. Originally published in 1924. Twelve captioned full-page color plates and thirty-three b w illustrations. Comprises thirty stories featuring the rabbit Uncle Wiggily getting into trouble and engaging with a large number of other animals. A well-preserved vintage book production with quality color plates. Pages nice and white, minute rubs to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips, else near fine in polished green linen boards with black embossed titles and Uncle Wiggily portrait to the front cover, and with black embossed titles to the spine, end-papers illustrated with a large variety of characters in red by Campbell; in a very good dust jacket with rubs, tears, creases and nicks to the shelf-edges and with chips and rubs to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips; "Beautiful Deluxe Editions" list of 7 Watty Piper titles and "Famous Paintings" by Chase to the rear inner flap. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable, protective sleeve after photographing for this entry. 9.25" by 7"; 217 pages, plus art plates. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT ILLUSTRATED VINTAGE BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.