Lovely first edition of this early and important work by the creator of Busytown — his first hit both written and illustrated by him.
Fine in near fine jacket.
Price: $750.00
"Tinker and Tanker knew what to do, and they did it."
Scarry began his career as an illustrator, but "ran out of assignments and decided to do some writing, too" (NEW YORK TIMES). TINKER AND TANKER, about a hippo and a rabbit on a road trip, became his first success as an author/illustrator. Scarry's worlds in which animals dress and act like humans, facing wholesome everyday adventures, became an integral part of the children's publishing landscape from this publication through the 1990s, best exemplified by the stories set in his famous Busytown. "When I draw an owl," Scarry has said, "and he wants to go somewhere, he doesn't fly; he has to go down to the airport and take a plane" (NEW YORK TIMES). Scarce with the original jacket in such beautiful condition.
Read more: Richard Flaste, "Richard Scarry and His People," 16 March 1976, The New York Times.
First printing. Garden City, New York: Garden City Books, 1960. 10.25'' x 8.25''. Original light blue pictorial cloth boards stamped in navy and red. In original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white. [36] pages. Jacket with a few small spots of rubbing, short closed tear at front joint, touch of toning to spine; bright and clean.
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