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Vintage Thornton W. Burgess Children's Books

Item Details

A collection of vintage Thornton W. Burgess books. Included are twelve titles from the 1920’s through 1990. Collection features books from Grosset & Dunlap including Reddy Fox (1941), Chatterer The Red Squirrel (1943) and Peter Cottontail (1941); Adventures of Jimmy Skunk (1946); Adventures of Prickly Porky (1944); Adventures of Paddy the Beaver 1945); Adventures of Buster Bear (1941); and more titles from various publishers. Also included is My Grandfather Thornton W. Burgess by Frances B. Meigs, signed by the author to the title page (Commonwealth Editions, 1998) and Now I Remember: The Autobiography of Thornton W. Burgess (Little, Brown, and Company, 1960). Fourteen books in total.

Binding Hardcover
Number of Books 14

Condition

- spine and edge wear
- yellowing to pages
- some books lack original dust jackets
- light bookseller pencil markings to the pastedowns/flyleaves

Dimensions

8.5" W x 11.0" H x 5.5" D

Item #

18CIN032-332

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