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ItemID: #21400
Cost: $600.00

Wee Gillis

Munro Leaf

SIGNED BY MUNRO LEAF AND ROBERT LAWSON

LEAF, Munro. Wee Gillis. Illustrated by Robert Lawson. New York: Viking Press, 1938. Slim octavo, original burlap-covered boards, original paper labels. $600.

Limited first edition, one of 525 copies signed by the author and the illustrator.

This fable of the boy who plays the biggest bagpipes in Scotland was named a Caldecott Honor Book in 1939. It was the second collaboration between Leaf and Lawson, coming three years after their classic Ferdinand. Without original slipcase.

Slight darkening to extremities. Fine condition.

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