“THE LITTLE GOAT PROUDLY TOSSED HIS HEAD UNTIL HIS BELL RANG”
LATHROP, Dorothy P. The Little White Goat. New York: Macmillan, 1933. Slim oblong quarto, original tan cloth, pictorial endpapers. $150.
First edition, with color frontispiece and 15 black-and-white plates.
Acclaimed children's book illustrator Dorothy P. Lathrop was the first Caldecott Medal recipient in 1938 and went on to illustrate nearly 50 children's books in her long career, 18 of which she also wrote. She was known for attention to detail: "pictures for her story of the animal's Christmas in the winter woods, Who Goes There? (1935), the red South American squirrel in Presents for Lupe (1940), the four Pekinese puppies for Puppies for Keeps (1943) are as scientifically accurate as they are beautiful" (Meigs et al., 579). Without original dust jacket.
Expert paper repairs to a few marginal closed tears. Light rubbing to mildly soiled publisher's cloth. An extremely good copy.