A PAIR OF RED CLOGS. by (Mizamura, Kazue). Matsuno, Masako - (1960).

Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Company, (1960)., (1960).. Very good. - Small oblong quarto [approximately 8-1/4 inches high by 9-1/2 inches wide], printed tan cloth with a vignette in reddish brown on the front cover in a pictorial dust wrapper. There is some minor rubbing to the dust jacket's extremities and the head & tail of its spine. Short tears to the top edge of the jacket's front panel and to the head of its spine have been repaired internally with archival tape. Unnumbered pages, including a double-page 4-color pictorial title & 13 full-page 4-color illustrations by Kazue Mizmura. Near fine in a very good dust wrapper.

First edition, first printing.

"Masako Matsuno's first book for children grew out of her wish to capture the sound of wooden clogs on a stone road in the 'beautiful rhythm of the English language....I shall be happy if this story gives American children something Japanese in sound as well as in spirit', she says." [From the dust wrapper copy].