Description
The Good+ dust jacket shows edge-wear, wear at the head and foot of the spine, several tears. The Very Good binding is illustrated paper over boards, warp around illustrated with boy looking out a window on the front and leaves on the back, white lettering, edge-wear, bumping at spine, chipping at spine. Illustrated end papers. The book cover and dust jacket have the same illustration. Color illustrations by Harry Devlin. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 10.3″ tall x 7.4″ wide.
First Edition
About the book (from the dust jacket)
“What kind of house should a tree house be?”
Big as a castle or little as a Hansel-and-Gretel house? Dark as a squirrel’s or bright as a tree frog’s?
The little boy in this book sees many different kinds of houses in his oak tree. How he gets not one, but all of them, is told in light, airy rhyme. Harold Longman lives in Connecticut with his wife, two sons, two dogs and a cat, in an old house with an old oak tree like the one in this book. When Mr. Longman isn’t writing children’s books (this is his first-others are in work) or stories or books for grown-ups, he writes advertising copy as Vice-President of one of the country’s leading advertising agencies.
About the illustrator (from the dust jacket)
Harry Devlin has won many awards in the field of advertising art. He is the illustrator of Bob Considine’s Innocents at Home, but finds drawing for children more fun.
About the publisher: (From Wikipedia, ISBN publishing history)
Parents’ Magazine was an American monthly magazine founded in 1926 that featured scientific information on child development geared to help parents in raising their children. From 1941 to 1965, Parents’ Magazine Press published a line of comic books and magazines heavily featuring comics, including such long-running titles as Calling All Girls, Children’s Digest, Polly Pigtails, True Comics, and True Picture-Magazine. Parents Magazine Press also published Humpty Dumpty from the 1950s through the early 1980s, until it and Children’s Digest were sold to The Saturday Evening Post company. Parents Magazine Press stopped publishing books in 1985 according to the last ISBN number recorded.
