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New York: The Platt & Munk Co, Inc, 1935. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. Good/None. HC and Lucille Holling. INSCRIBED & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with FINISHED ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR HUMOROUS IMAGES of TWO INDIANS & their scratching DOG in FULL COLOR painted on a front endpaper, quarto / 4to (11" x 8 5/8"), blue cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover with Thunderbird, illustrated throughout with reproductions of the beautiful frontispiece and 5 comparable full-page colored plates as well as sepia vignettes delineated in text and the page borders depicting Indian images, artifacts, and lore executed by Holling C. and Lucille Holling, brown map endpapers, 125 pages. Weight: 1 lb. 10 oz. Holling Clancy Holling (1900 - 1973) was a brilliantly talented American author-and-illustrator. In addition to his warmly executed naturalistic full-color plates, he and his wife filled the margins of their books with detailed vignettes of entrancing images, objects, and lore to accompany…
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