Description
Very good illustrated dust jacket, a mylar jacket has been added, price clipped and has some chipping at corners and a small chip off top edge on front. Very Good+ beige paper over boards, cover illustration is multiple hats and a hat on Harriet, rear cover is multiple hats. The book cover and dust jacket have the same illustration. Illustrated end papers, writing on the inside rear cover. Brown-and-white illustrations throughout by Paula Hutchison. Pages are clean and binding is tight. Book measures 7.4″ tall x 8.2″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
There was no question about it in Harriet’s mind: She needed a new hat. The little old beret she always wore was just about through. And so the hat-buying expedition (which consisted of practically the whole family finally set out for Madame Dossaud’s. Madame Dossaud carried about every kind of hat you could think of.
And most of them were tried on Harriet’s head. One made her look like a bullfighter. One made her look like Robin Hood. In another she looked like an African explorer. In another she looked like an admiral. Well. it wasn’t Harriet’s fault, but she was a sight in every single one of them. Then at last they found one which suited exactly. And which do you think it was?
About thew author/illustrator (from the dust jacket)
Paula Hutchison was born in Montana. Lived in a log cabin up in Sixteen Mile Canyon in the Rockies. She now lives in a New York studio with a Setter pup and a stray cat. A good deal of her time she spends in doing pictures of children – and for children. In fact that is one of the things she likes to do best of all. However, there has been plenty of variety in her rather remarkable artistic career: After attending the University of Washington she did newspaper work, library work, and studied at Pratt. She worked on the art staffs of publishing houses. Sketched in Europe. It was in London that she got the idea for this book. One day in a millinery shop she saw a lot of ridiculous hat. styles, and the result was –a few months later – “A Hat for Harriet.”‘
