The Big Snow

New York, New York: MacMillan Company, 1948. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/VG-. Hader, Berta; Hader, Elmer. Lovely tale depicts how the birds & animals of the woods & meadows go about preparing for winter, informed by the authors' own experiences & observations as they made their own home in a stone house they built themselves in the countryside overlooking the Hudson River at Nyack, NY. This was their fifth book, & won the 1949 Caldecott Award for their illustrations. A true FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1948 (with the requisite date on title page as well as the copyright page), this hardcover small 4to (8.5" x 10.25") has medium blue cloth-covered boards stamped with white lettering & snowflake design to front/white lettering to spine. As an EX-LIB copy, it has a card pocket in rear & minimal markings both there & in front matter. Condition is Good: generally quite very clean, with an occasional small smudge. Stitched binding is secures as are both hinges. Pages off-white with modest tanning, unmarked save for library stamps, as mentioned. Both front & rear endpapers have some creasing & unclosed tears. Tiny split at bottom of gutter between frontispiece & title page. Tape residue to exterior of both boards, along with slight fading to both edges. The front DJ flap is clipped at top, $2.50 price intact at bottom. Condition is VG- (minus): the original mylar covering was a tad too small, causing a bit of wrinkling & creasing at both top & bottom edges of DJ. This had been removed & replaces with brand new--looks lovely as can be, strongly colored & clean, with a bit of rubbing & chipping to flaps & spine. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.