Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) GRAMATKY, HARDIE. Little Toot. Illustrated throughout with full-page and in-text color lithographs by the author. Square 8vo, original blue-green cloth lettered in yellow, trace of rubbing to lower board extremities; dust jacket, unclipped, minor edgewear with a few small nicks and closed tears, narrow age-toning along fold edges, vertical crease along rear flap; discreet bookseller's label on rear pastedown, contents clean. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1939)

Additional Details

first edition, first printing, in unrestored dust jacket. Little Toot was featured in several animated shorts, including the 1948 Walt Disney film Melody Time with storyboards by Bill Peet. Uncommon in the original jacket.