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The Circus Baby.
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In one of the Petersham's most charming books, Mother Elephant tries to teach her baby to eat at the table, just as her friends the clown family do. She herself is too big to fit at all and the baby makes a mess just as the clowns arrive! NOTE: THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SOLD.
$125.00
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The Circus Baby.
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New York: Macmillan, 1950, 1st or early printing; red illustrated boards with Baby trembling on the circus elephant stool, nothing on back, blue endpapers, in jacket identical to boards with pre 1950 books on back flap, 8x10 inches; c 28 pp.
Picture Book hardback
CONDITION: Very Good in Good Minus jacket; very bright, tight book with lovely colour in the cover illustration, with a little bumping and wear to extremities, first and last pages are a little reading wrinkled, in an evenly soiled, brittle jacket, with erased name, edgewear all around, half inch chips at spine ends affecting text, off and on 4" closed tear along spine crease; unclipped 1.50
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Control Number:
9221
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Is the mother in this story
Is the mother in this story named Dilla?