The Little Engine That Could. by Piper, Watty - 1930.

The Platt & Munk Co., 1930. First edition, in unrecorded variant dust jacket (see below). Slight handling creases to first few pages, slight rubbing to spine tips, still near fine to fine in complete but soiled dust jacket with splits to front flap and spine folds, a one and one-half inch tear with attendant creasing to lower front panel, two chips to mid spine, all tears and chips, reinforced on verso with old tape, in mylar cover. Color illus by Lois Lenski. Red cloth with illustrated cover label. Stan Sielinski notes four variants of the dust jacket. Variant B should have a blank from jacket flap and six titles listed on rear panel. The six titles on the rear are center justified. On variant D, the six titles are left justified and the front flap has copy. Our variant, has the blank front flap, as in variant B, but the six titles are left justified, as in Variant D.