Author: BURGESS, Thornton W.
Title: The Adventures of Johnny Chuck
Description: Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1916. Hardcover. Illustrations by Harrison Cady. 16mo. Tan cloth with black lettering and elaborate black and red pictorial stamping, pictorial dust jacket. vi, 120pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 5 full-page plates (as called for). Very good/good plus. Blacked-out ownership signature on front pastedown; outer pages edges of a dozen leaves near center a bit roughed up; jacket a bit edgeworn and rather age toned, rubbed and soiled -- but complete, intact and overall still attractive. Early printing of this 1913 addition to Burgess's sizable "Bedtime Story-Books" series, tight and nice despite being loved. These early volumes were all reprinted umpteen times over many decades, but this early printing we date to circa 1919 since the rear jacket panel lists up to the 20th title in this series ("Ol' Mistah Buzzard," published 1919). Uncommon in the dust jacket. .

Keywords: Children's


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