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Published by William Morrow and Company, New York, 1943
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
First Edition
A near-fine copy, and handsomely bound in pictorial paper-covered boards featuring aa joyous Tweedles in the jungle. Very clean and tight throughout with a discrete name in ink at the top of the inside paste-down; virtually unread. In a very good minus pictorial dust jacket with a .25" strip of sun darkening along the rear fold and small chips at the top and bottom of the spine ends. With the original price of $2.00 at the top of the inside front flap. A very nice, clean, collectible copy. Wolo was born in Berlin, Germany on July 24, 1902 as Baron Wolf Erhardt Anton Georg Trutzschler von Falkenstein. He came to the U.S. in 1922 as an exchange student at the University of Wisconsin. In 1927 he moved to Los Angeles and, as a self-taught artist, established a studio. In 1932 he moved to San Francisco where he worked for many years as a caricaturist-columnist for the Chronicle. He also wrote and illustrated five children's books, and was a mural painter, lecturer and puppeteer. Wolo died in San Francisco on May 8, 1989. Wolo came to Seattle in November 1946, after the publication of Friendly Valley. First edition with 1943 on the copyright page and no subsequent printings listed.