Homer Price

Description

McCLOSKEY, Robert. Homer Price. NY: Viking Press [1943]. 8vo, 149pp. Orange cloth pictorially stamped in brown. Illustrations in b&w throughout. Spine ends expertly mended but showing minute rubbing, slight dampstain at lower rear left corner, other corners a tad rubbed, endpapers a tad toned (particularly at front hinge), else a clean, tight copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (spine ends expertly restored, slight creasing around edges, spine a tad sunned, lightly aged).

First edition. The first of two books about two-time Caldecott Medalist Robert McCloskeys mild-mannered small-town boy and the inexplicable and hilarious situations he finds himself in! The first novel by this beloved author/artist and one of only eight books he both wrote and illustrated during his 30-year career.