More Silver Pennies by Thompson, Blanche Jennings (Editor) - 1938

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. First printing, December 1938. NEAR FINE in VERY GOOD price intact dust jacket. A crisp, unmarked and firmly bound copy of this lovely collection of verses appropriate for children. Pages are fresh and fine. Minor toning to endpapers. Blue cloth hardcover titled in silver on spine and front with a cascade of silver pennies stamped on front cover. Cover is moderately toned along spine and edges but otherwise clean and unworn. Binding and hinges firm, intact and straight. Unusual dust jacket is printed on a light blue paper flocked with silver sparkles. Front panel has silhouette illustration. Jacket is clean with light toning and wear to edges, small chips to spine ends. Flap corners clipped tho $1.75 price is present on front flap. Jacket is in a new clear archival protector. Works by Hilaire Belloc, James Joyce, Katharine Mansfield, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Carl Carmer, James Stevens, Elinor Wylie, Edward J. O'Brien and many more. Illustrated throughout with delightful line drawings by the American artist, Pelagie Doane. 5 x 7-1/2"; xvi + 155 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Doane, Pelagie.