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MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL
by Burton, Virginia Lee
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. First edition. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First printing of the classic picture book, a carefully designed balance of text and image by the author, in the scarce original dust jacket. Along with Sendak and McCloskey, Burton is among the handful of picture book creators whose talents were equally accomplished in both roles, as author and artist. Burton was a perfectionist obsessed with design theory, which she explored in the deceptively simple format. MIKE MULLIGAN is acclaimed for its attention to the small details, while maintaining a clear and spirited through-line: "The wonder is that she achieved what she wanted without losing the spontaneity," noted Barbara Bader. As a result, her books are often read to tatters and not many collectible first editions of this title exist. An exceptionally nice copy. 8.5'' x 9.5''. Original tan pictorial cloth. In original price-clipped red pictorial dust jacket. Color pictorial endpapers. [44] pages. A few tiny margin mends and hinge wear in an amazingly bright jacket with only a few tiny closed edge tears and 1/4'' chip off top of spine. Short split to title page gutter, though firm. Cloth fresh.
Synopsis
A modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers -- the very symbol of industrial America. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. What happens next in the small town of Popperville is a testament to their friendship, and to old-fashioned hard work and ingenuity.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31573
- Title
- MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL
- Author
- Burton, Virginia Lee
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- 20th century,American,Picture Book
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Silver Spring, Maryland
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- Cloth
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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