When the Root Children Wake Up, New Edition...
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, No date [c. 1941]. Sibylle v. OLFERS. Later printing. Cloth. Later printing, date on front flap of dust jacket only. 4to; [22pp]; yellow cloth over board illustrated with silhouettes of tiny children carrying plant stems; pictorial endpapers; full page color illustrations opposite a page of text; light finger smudges to boards; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket with price of $3.39, gold “Longlife Binding” (library binding) sticker to front, light chipping at spine; fine in near fine dj. Fine / near fine. Item #623
First published in 1930 by Frederick A. Stokes, this later edition by a different publisher retains the charming illustrations and story of “root children” who live underground and return to the surface of the earth in spring.
Price: $48.00