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LEAF, MUNRO and LAWSON, ROBERT.
The Story of Ferdinand.
Illustrated
by Lawson. Small 4to, original linen-backed pictorial boards, fine; dust jacket, spine panel
faded, very light edgewear, corners narrowly clipped retaining price on front and rear flaps,
internally pristine.
NewYork:Viking, 1936
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION IN UNRESTORED DUST JACKET
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“This is perhaps one of the finest twentieth-cen-
tury examples of the inspired wedding of a text and illustrations to make a children’s book that as a
whole is even greater than the sum of its parts. The overworked word ‘classic’ is well deserved here”
(Morgan/Gottlieb 222).With publisher’s advance promotional slip laid-in.