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The Viking Press, 1933. Hardcover. Good. . Tanning/dust wear, some chipping to boards. Pages clean.

New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First edition. 11 1/4 x 9 inches: pp. [64]. Illustrated gray illustrated paper dust jacket with red spine and black type. Illustrated, colorful gray boards with red spine and black type. Dust jacket with Brodart wraps. Two 1-inch chips to dust jacket at top and bottom of spine, edgewear and one more chip along bottom edge of dustjacket. Light rubbing to extremities of boards. Light bit of soiling on page edges. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Said to be one of the Petersham's most elusive titles. The story of the adventures of Get-A-Way, "an old worn out [toy] horse from America, and Hary Janos The Obsitos, a one-armed toy wooden soldier.

New York: Viking Press, 1933. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. Petersham, Maud and Miska. 1st ptg., 4to picture book, orange cloth over pictorial boards. A one-armed wooden soldier boy and his worn-out friend Get-a-Way thre three-legged horse find the land where old toys regain their original condition. Lushly illustrated with alternating full color and gray scale full and partial page artwork by the Petershams. Boards worn through at tips, light mark of large ring to back cover, still a bright, handsome copy with neat owner's name inked on verso of front free endpaper.

True First Edition -- not the Junior Literary Guild book club reprint. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Polka dot patterned end papers. Edges rubbed, exposing boards at corners + light cover scuffs. Name in pencil on front end paper, else fine interior ~ tight, bright and unmarked. No jacket.

New York, 1933. 1 vols. 10-1/4 inches (26 cm). Plain red cloth spine, front cover with watercolor drawing incorporating the lettering, front endpapers painted in watercolor. Minor staining to front cover. 1 vols. 10-1/4 inches (26 cm). From the husband and wife team who would eventually win the Caldecott Medal in 1946 for The Rooster Crows: A Book of American Rhymes and Jingles. Provenance: Selma Lanes (author of The Art of Maurice Sendak, etc.)