Author: (Gregory, Dorothy Lake). van Dresser, Jasmine Stone.
Title: Jimsey. By Jasmine Stone Van Dresser... . with Pictures by Dorothy Lake Gregory. [in Rare Dust Wrapper].
Description: Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Company, (1925). (1925). Chicago & New York: Rand McNally & Company, (1925). (1925). Good. - Octavo, 8 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in pictorial blue cloth titled in gilt with a color illustration by Dorothy Lake Gregory mounted on the front cover. The book is laid into its original color pictorial cream dust wrapper. The book's covers are very slightly rubbed with a small stain at the head of the spine. The edges and corners of the dust jacket are chipped with several short tears and small pieces out. 90 pages, illustrated with 4 color plates by American artist Dorothy Lake Gregory (1893-1975), the illustrator of the original 1924 version of "The Boxcar Children". Very good in a good dust wrapper. First edition, first printing with the requisite "MA" on the copyright page, in the rare dust wrapper. Eulalie, a little girl who is spending a year in her family's house in rural Tennessee, becomes good friends with Jimsey, a lively good-natured African-American girl. Good .

Keywords: CHILDRENS; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; JIMSEY; JASMINE STONE VAN DRESSER; DOROTHY LAKE GREGORY; ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOR PLATES; DUST JACKET; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 1ST PRINTING; EULALIE; AFRICAN-AMERICAN GIRL.


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