Little Joe Otter by Thornton W. Burgess - 1965

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1965. Hardcover. Good. Harrison Cady. Book is in good condition. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. Boards have shelf wear and bumped corners; spine is bumped. Endpapers feature multiple animals printed in green and beige. Text block has blue top edge. Prior owner has doodled in red pen on rear end paper. Pages are clean, but have some markings from prior owner: name on half title page, doodle in pencil on pg. 135, page number crossed out pg. 196; doodle on back of illustration pg. 196. Four full page black and white illustrations on plain paper inserted at title page, p. 28, p. 95, and p. 196. Grosset and Dunlap hard cover, with dust jacket, copyright 1925 but printing probably 1960s due to binding style. 198 pages, illustrated by Harrison Cady. 8vo (7.5"" x 5"") Grosset and Dunlap reprint of Little, Brown original. Second in the Smiling Pool series, preceded by Billy Mink, and followed by Jerry Muskrat at Home, and Longlegs the Heron. A delightful story of the Otter family, Little Joe Otter, Mrs. Joe and the two little Otters, who spend their time swimming and fishing in and around the Smiling Pool. The Otters share their fun with their good friend, Peter Rabbit.