MIKE MULLIGAN AND HIS STEAM SHOVEL

by Virginia Lee Burton

$4,500 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. First printing. First edition of the classic picture book, a carefully designed balance of text and image by the author, in the scarce original dust jacket. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Item #31573 Along with Sendak and McCloskey, Burton is among the handful of picture book creators whose talents were equally accomplished in both roles, as

• Printing: first

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