Description
Very Good dust jacket, red with illustration of man and a squirrel on front, back illustrated with Pooh’s Library, price clipped, slight edge wear. Very Good+ binding is pink cloth over boards, black line illustration on front, black lettering on spine. Very slight soiling to edges. Inside cover shows toning, gift inscription on front free end paper. Black-and-white frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Ernest Shepard. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 8.2″ tall x 5.7′ wide.
First published in the U.S.A. 1967 by E.P. Dutton & Co.
Stated “First Edition”
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Joe is a tramp – at least in the summer months. And Betsy is a squirrel who befriends him one night when he camps beneath her beech tree. But next day Betsy is intrigued by a passing circus van and hops aboard Her circus life as Betsina the balancing squirrel is not all she expects, but faithful Joe finds a way to rescue her. Off they go for other adventures before settling again in the beech wood.
About the author/illustrator (from the dust jacket)
Mr. Shepard’s wit and imagination and his skill at portraiture make this an engaging tale for children. Ernest Shepard was born in 1879 in London. attended St. Paul’s School, Heatherlev’s Art School. and then won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1904 he sold his first painting, and in 1906 he began to draw for Punch. In 1924 he was commissioned to illustrate A. A. Milne’s When We Were Very followed by Winnie-the Foo, Now We Are Siki and The House at Pooh Corner, “Never was
an author more happily paired with an artist,” says Mary Hill Arbuthnot in Children and Books. “You have only to look at one of these tiny figures to know what is happening inwardly as well as outwardly.”‘
In addition to the Pooh stories, Ernest Shepard is well known for his illustrations in Kenneth Grahame’s The Reluctant Dragon and The Wind in the Willows. The first book both written and illustrated by Mr.. Shepard, Ben and Brock, was published in 1966.
