Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE SEREDY, Kate (author & illustrator) "A TREE FOR PETER" New York. The Viking Press. 1941. First edition. Quarto. 102pp. Bound in tan cloth with blue spine lettering and tree motif to top panel. Wear to heel and lower corners. Complete with original unclipped ('$2.00') dust jacket as issued. Jacket with losses to crown and foot and several cello tape repairs as shown. Previous owner gift inscriptions to front pastedown. Small stain to last text page. Plain endpapers. Hinges tight and sound. Overall, very good. A respectable and complete example of a very scarce book in the first issue state. Pre-war era book such as this are difficult to find in collectable condition. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Peter is a little, lame, fatherless, poor boy and "afraid of many things." His mother has to work every day in the city and he spends his week alone and frightened, living for Sunday, her day off. They live in Shantytown, an area of old abandoned houses that the poorest of the poor are squatting in as they try to eke out a meager living: it is a people and a place without hope. Until one day, small Peter meets Peter King, an old tramp who befriends him and teaches him to stop being fearful of life. As his outlook changes, he starts making friends, first with a mangy dog, and then with the Irish cop whose beat includes Shantytown. As he changes, he starts changing the world around him, little by little. From Peter King's kindness, a chain of events builds and transforms Small Peter and all the people of Shantytown A wonderful tale by the award winning Hungarian-American author illustrator. Provenance: We recently acquired a large and important CHILDREN’S BOOK / JUVENILE COLLECTION NUMBERING SOME 4,000 TITLES COLLECTED BY A UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN ACROSS 40+ YEARS. In the coming weeks, we will be offering many interesting and collectible children’s picture / chapter books including works by great authors and illustrators such as MILNE, SEUSS, LAWSON, BEMELMANS, CALDECOTT, RACKHAM, GREENAWAY, CRANE and many others. Many ‘Award Books’ are among the collection having been recognized with Caldecott or Newbery honors or medals. Please email any questions -
Price: 149.99 USD
Location: Beverly Hills, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Cloth
Year Printed: 1941
Subject: Children's
Special Attributes: First Edition, Illustrated
Original/Facsimile: Original
