(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) MCCLOSKEY, ROBERT. Lentil. Color illustrations by the author. 4to, publisher's cloth pictorial boards, trace of soiling to board edges; pictorial dust jacket, large chips to top of front panel, separated along spine panel at fold, brittle with additional small chips at fold corners and spine panel tips. first edition, signed by the author in black ink on half title. McCloskey's first book. New York: Viking Press, 1940