BLUE BARNS : THE STORY OF TWO BIG GEESE AND SEVEN LITTLE DUCKS

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Good / Good. Helen Sewell. Large octavo, 10 in. x 7.7 in. Unpaginated. Light blue cloth boards with dark blue goose design and title stamped to front. Dark blue title to spine. boards and spine mottled, with lightening especially to spine (from washing?). Small ink deaccension stamp from university library to front pastedown. Age-toning and occasional spotting to pages. Spine and hinges tight. Light rubbing and light soiling to dustjacket; small chips to endcaps of dustjacket spine. Price clipped with stamped price. Scissored cut to bottom inch of rear dustjacket flap (but no loss of text). Protected in mylar. "Helen Moore Sewell was born on June 27, 1896. Many will recognize her artwork from the original Little House books, some of which she co-illustrated with Mildred Boyle, but her career began much earlier. In fact, by age 8 she had already decided she was going to be an artist, and by 12 she had become the youngest person to ever attend the Pratt Institute. Some of her first serious sales were to the Christmas and greeting card markets, and in 1924 she became a published children's book illustrator with The Cruise of the Little Dipper and Other Fairy Stories..... 'Good art for children must be intelligible to them, so I have always gone to children for my cue and inspiration, and I have found them a rewarding and appreciative public.' Ms. Sewell died in 1957." (from Bookology).