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DOROTHY KUNHARDT: JUNKET IS NICE/ILLUSTRATED/DESSERT/RARE 1933 1st EDITION $150+

JUNKET IS NICE. BY DOROTHY KUNHARDT. [New York]: Harcourt, Brace, & Co., 1933. First Edition. Rare.

A solid rare First Edition book. This large oblong book is complete and it is internally in excellent condition, with lovely full page color illustrated plates, and without any writing or markings or torn or missing pages. The book retains the original binding. Published more than 80 years ago, this rare First Edition is now long out of print and hard to find as the only other copy of this book in comparable condition listed for sale on the internet is priced $150 for a book not as nice as this book. This book should be as valuable.

From the Text: "Once there was an old old man with a red beard and red slippers. He was sitting at a table eating out of a big red bowl. He was eating junket out of hte big red bowl. The old man ate and ate and ate. More junket and more junket and more junket and more junket until at last people began to be very much surprised at how much junket he was eating and they began to tell their friends about him because he seemed to be such a very hungry old man. So people and their friends began coming to look at the old man eating his junket..."

According to Wikipedia: "Dorothy Kunhardt (September 29, 1901 – December 23, 1979 in Beverly, Massachusetts) was an American children's-book author, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Large Oblong Quarto - sized hardcover book; profusely illustrated throughout. Good+ condition: no torn or missing pages; no writing or markings in the text; no ownership markings. Original hardcover binding, with wear and fraying to edges nad corners, and some spots. A solid and attractive rare First Edition of this book.