BAKER'S MAN by Hall, Rosalys and Kurt Werth (Illustrator) - 1954

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus in torn Dustjacket. Light blue cloth-covered boards with navy lettering to front and spine. One bumped corner, and several only slightly nudged corners. Very small (2 5/8 in.) deaccession stamp to verso of front free endpaper. Long closed tear along dustjacket spine, and one small 3/4 inch missing chip. The story of Andres of Ufhofen, Germany who owned a wonderful high bicycle but really wanted to be a baker -- in a small town in Germany which couldn't support two bakers, and how the situation was solved. The illustrator Kurt Werth knew of a bake shop just like the one in Ufhofen. Some of Mr. Werth's illustrated books include: • Higgledy-Piggledy Room; by Elizabeth Ryan. 1948 • No Ducks For Dinner; story by Rosalys Hall. 1953 • Once the Mullah; Persian folk tales retold by Alice Geer Kelsey. 1954 • One Mitten Lewis; by Helen Kay, pseud. 1955 • The story of San Francisco; by Charlotte E Cobden Jackson. 1955 • An Elephant in the Family by James Playsted Wood; 1957 • Danger in the Everglades by Frederick W. Keith. 1957 • The year without a Santa Claus. by Phyllis McGinley. 1957 • The thing at the foot of the bed and other scary tales. by Maria Leach. 1959 • Stop It, Moppit! by Geraldine Ross, 1959 • Noodles, nitwits, and numskulls by Maria Leach. 1961 • Tony's birds. by Millicent Selsam. 1961 • A tiger called Thomas. by Charlotte Zolotow. 1963 • Hear ye of Boston. by Polly Curren. 1964 • The luck book. by Maria Leach. 1964 • The valiant tailor, by Kurt Werth. 1965 • Sailor Tom, by Edna Boutwell. 1966 • The legends of Paul Bunyan. by Roberta Strauss Feuerlicht. 1966 • McBroom tells the truth, by Sid Fleischman. 1966 • McBroom and the big wind, by Sid Fleischman. 1967 • The monkey, the lion, and the snake, by Kurt Werth. 1967 • King Thrushbeard. by Kurt Werth. 1968 • That Lincoln boy. by Earl Schenck Miers. 1968 • One dark night. by Edna Mitchell Preston. 1969 • McBroom's Ear, by Sid Fleischman; Kurt Werth. 1969 • Lazy Jack. by Kurt Werth. 1970 • Samuel Clemens. by Charles Michael Daugherty. 1970 • How a piglet crashed the Christmas party, by Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder. 1971 • McBroom's zoo, by Sid Fleischman. 1972 • Herbert's stilts, by Hazel Hutchins Wilson. 1972 • McBroom the rainmaker, by Sid Fleischman. 1973 • Molly and the giant, by Kurt Werth; Mabel Watts. 1973 • Dick Whittington and His Cat. by Eva Moore. 1974 • The three beggar kings. by Rosalys Haskell Hall. 1974 • The newcomers; ten tales of American immigrants by Joseph Raskin; Edith Raskin. 1974.