FIERCE JOHN, story by Edward Fenton, illustrated by William pene Du Bois, Doubleday & Company, NY, 1959, First Edition (stated).  Small book (6"x9"), 60 pages, b&w line drawings highlighted with gold, text is easy-reader style, yellow cloth with red decoration, nice dust jacket that may be a replacement (from another copy of book).  Wonderful humorous lion, and appealing story.  VG/VG    $75.
 

OTTO AT SEA, by William Pene du Bois, Viking Press, 1936, First Printing.  Small 6" square book with great full color plates facing text on each page.  Later editions of this book are in a larger size format, but this size and quality is the one to have.  Interior is very good condition, but cover is rubbed and corners are rubbed and there are 2 small pieces missing from spine cover extremities.  No marks or tears. VG    <SOLD>

LITTLE RAG DOLL, by Ethel Calvert Phillips, illustrated by Lois Lenski, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930, probable first edition.  This very scarce early Lenski item has 173 pages, 8vo, cloth cover with perfect color paste-on, very good dj (small chip out of front at bottom edge), four wonderful color plates plus 80 in-text b&w illustrations.  The lovely story is an adventure about a little rag doll who runs away from home because she is mistreated, and sets up houskeepking in a better place.  F/VG    $150.

SUGARPLUM HOUSE, words and pictures by Lois Lenski, Harper and Brothers, 1935 (M-K), hand-set in Futura type by Arthur and Edna Rushmore at the Golden Hind Press, Madison, NJ.  Alternating green and red type facing like-color full page illustration in the style of the "Small" books. Oblong format, 9-1/2" x 6-1/2",  32 pages plus endpapers on heavy stock paper, no marks or tears, very good condition inside, some soil and wear to covers (but spine cover paper is all intact).  Charming!  VG    $75.

SUSIE MARIAR, pictures by Lois Lenski, Henry Z. Walck, NY, 1967 (1939). Oblong, 38 pages, red and yellow color for illustrations, yellow cloth binding, nice dj, reprint edition and library discard.  Missing free endpapers, and showing library pocket remnants inside front cover, otherwise in very good condition.  Susie Mariar is an old folk rhyme, known in different versions in different parts of the USA.  Version used here is based on southern collection of Dr. James M. Carpenter, with several verses from New England added. $35.