Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton - 1939

E-071: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1939. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston MA, 1939. 40 unpaginted pages. Early printing. Price-clipped DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (Choo-Choo blurb present to the rear flap but price clipped) Bound in publisher's gray cloth, with red and black image of Mike and his steam shovel, Mary Anne, on the front. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. 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. When Mary Anne is destined for the scrap heap, the duo must dig their way out of trouble in this timeless tale of friendship, old-fashioned hard work, and ingenuity. E-071; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .