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THE WISHING WINDOW IN Dustjacket,  SIGNED & inscribed by Horte & Wyncie,   1942,,A interesting and scarce example of the story of two French children,

THE WISHING WINDOW IN Dustjacket, SIGNED & inscribed by Horte & Wyncie, 1942,,A interesting and scarce example of the story of two French children,

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THE WISHING WINDOW IN Dustjacket, SIGNED & inscribed by Horte & Wyncie, 1942,,A interesting and scarce example of the story of two French children,

by by Hortense FLEXNER , & B/W Illustrated by Wyncie KING, SIGNED & inscribed by Horte & Wyncie, the author & Illustrator, & Original COLOR DRAWING FRONT DJ GLUED IN OPPOSITE TITLE PG,

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New York & Philadelphia. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1942. SIGNED & inscribed by Horte & Wyncie, the author & Illustrator, & Original COLOR DRAWING FRONT DJ GLUED IN OPPOSITE TITLE PG, Inner DJ Flap $1.50, COLOR illustrated Endpapers, HBDJ, 1942 ON TITLE PG & COPYRIGHT. Small Quarto. First Edition. 1st Printong, VG+/VG, Bound in original bluegrey embossed cloth RED LETTERING,. DJ with chips at tips and edges. Hinges sound. Overall, very good or better.Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Edge-torn & Chipped. hardcover, partial discoloration of endpapers, corners slightly worn, light wear to extremities, contents lightly toned, Unpaginated, in edge-torn and edge-chipped dust jacket; LARGE ORIGINAL B/W INK SKETCH of boy on bicycle carrying large pie, with cat in basket, by Wyncie King (tag attached to pie says "for Ivor and George"; and on blank facing this sketch, on the half-title page, in ink, "to - Ivor and George with our love - Hortie and Wyncie"; PLUS pen and ink and watercolor rendering of a variant of the image on the dust jacket (girl and boy peering into pie shop window) on sheet mounted on the blank facing the title page Size: 8vo , Foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher ,,A interesting and scarce example of the story of two French children, Clare & Jacques in Nazi occupied France during WWII, Madame Bon bon had shop in Village of Routon with Pink Peppermints,Chocolate creams ETC. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Wyncie KING, .

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Title
THE WISHING WINDOW IN Dustjacket, SIGNED & inscribed by Horte & Wyncie, 1942,,A interesting and scarce example of the story of two French children,
Author
by Hortense FLEXNER , & B/W Illustrated by Wyncie KING, SIGNED & inscribed by Horte & Wyncie, the author & Illustrator, & Original COLOR DRAWING FRONT DJ GLUED IN OPPOSITE TITLE PG,
Illustrator
Wyncie KING,
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
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Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
New York & Philadelphia. Frederick A. Stokes Company
Date Published
1942
Keywords
CHILDREN by FLEXNER, Hortense (Author) , & Wyncie KING,(illustrator) SIGNED ILLUSTRATION

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