First printing of the first title in the beloved HENRY REED series, following the entrepreneurial boy on his first several ventures.
Very good plus in very good dust jacket.
Price: $450.00
"We drew our money out of the bank last Friday and divided it. We had almost forty dollars each, which proves that free enterprise is profitable."
Written as a series of journal entries (but, Henry insists, NOT as a diary), HENRY REED, INC follows the titular character as he founds a "research service" based out of an old barn. Hijinks, of course, ensue. HENRY REED, INC earned the 1961 William Allen White Children's Book Award and was followed by four sequels. Four of the books in the series, including HENRY REED, INC feature illustrations by double Caldecott Medal-winning artist Robert McCloskey.
First edition. New York: The Viking Press, (1958). 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original brown cloth binding with brown stamped design. Original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. Red topstain. Illustrated in black and white. 240 pages. Small owner name to rear of jacket. Jacket with some edgewear, light soil to rear; some chipping around spine, a few tape repairs to verso. Binding spine ends lightly bumped, spine a bit sunned. Interior sharp and bright.
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