Description
No Jacket, a mylar jacket has been added. The Very Good binding is orange paper over boards, grey cloth backed, the cover illustration is a dog sitting on a bone, the rear cover has an illustration of a mouse, shelf-wear, edge-wear, lite discoloration to boards. Illustrated end papers. Black-and-White illustrations throughout by Margot Austin. The pages are clean and the binding is tight. The book measures 10″ tall x 9″ wide.
About the author/illustrator (from Wikipedia)
Margot M. Helser Austin (September 18, 1907 – June 25, 1990) was an American children’s book illustrator, best known for her Churchmouse stories, a series of illustrated books about animals who live at a church..
Early life and education
Margaret “Margot” Helser was born in Portland, Oregon, the daughter of Peter Frederick Helser and Maria (Maud) Campbell Helser (later Swisher). Esther Pohl Lovejoy signed her 1907 Oregon birth certificate. Her mother was a stenographer, born in Canada. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she was raised in her maternal grandparents’ household in Portland. She attended St. Mary’s Academy and the National Academy of Design in New York. She also studied with the Art Students League of New York.
