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Lot 16: BURTON, VIRGINIA LEE

Est: $5,000 USD - $7,000 USDSold:
Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USDecember 10, 2010

Item Overview

Description

BURTON, VIRGINIA LEE Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939 In 4s (8 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.; 216 x 235 mm). Pictorial half-title and title and color illustrations throughout by Burton; internally fine. Publisher's pictorial cloth, pictorial endpapers; minimal wear. Original pictorial dust jacket; some wear to extremities expertly mended. Green buckram slipcase, spine gilt-lettered.

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Teddy Tarr (signature dated 1939 on verso of half-title)

Notes

First edition. A bright, fresh copy of one of the most popular American children's books of the last century, signed by Virginia Lee Burton on the half-title. Copies signed by Burton are scarce.

Auction Details

Books & Manuscripts

by
Sotheby's
December 10, 2010, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US