Author: Slobodkin, Florence and Louis.
Title: Too Many Mittens. [Inscribed & Signed with an Original Color Drawing by Louis Slobodkin].
Description: New York, NY: The Vanguard Press, Inc. (1958). (1958). - Small quarto, 10 inches high by 8 inches wide. Bound in light grayish-blue cloth illustrated with a clothes-line of mittens, in a pictorial dust wrapper illustrated by the author. The original price is printed at the bottom of the jacket's front flap. Some of the light blue color has faded in spots on the cover. There are minor chips to the corners and head & tail of the dust jacket's spine with a short tear to the top edge of the jacket's rear panel. [32] unnumbered pages, with profuse color illustrations by Louis Slobodkin, including several double-page illustrations. Very good.

First edition.

A wonderful presentation copy, illustrated with an original color drawing on the from endpaper depicting a red mitten hanging from a clothes line, inscribed "For Melissa / with love / and this special red mitten", signed by both Florence Slobodkin and Louis Slobodkin with a smaller color drawing of a blanket spread out on a beach between two palm trees, dated "Miami 1971". Very good .

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