Ruth

1937 · 1286103 — New York: Veritas Press 1937. small square 4to. unpaginated G-; matte paper boards spine black with white age-toned tan lettering light green boards with black lettering/color cat illustrations; heavy wear to boards-bumping/chipping/fraying to head and tail of spine cocking to spine boards cocked and shaken cracked spine to back board staples visible binding intact bfep attached yet somewhat fragile; noticeable brown staining mostly towards left-hand corner of front board green crayon marking to illustration of front board; bumping/chipping/fraying to corners; mild age-toning to text-block brown staining to top likely water damage related to similar staining to boards foxing to middle of fore-edge light scratching to bottom-edge; foxing to turn-ins turn-in to bottom right-hand corner of back paste-down creased and age-toned; black residue to starting hinge between verso of last page and recto of bfep at gutter possibly water staining from black paper spine tearing to staples at hinge; contains black and white and color illustrations likely by Ruth Carroll; frontispiece to title page; pub. 1937 to copyright page later printing; permissions from the Chesapeake & Ohio Lines for "Chessie-the Chesapeake & Ohio kitten" and the Robertson-Deschamps Gallery for illustration to front board a reproduction of Guido Gruenwald's etching "The Sleepy Cat" to acknowledgements page; small stain to copyright and acknowledgements pages; wear to endpapers including aged paste staining to gutters black marking to middle of front paste-down black circular staining likely water damage to back paste-down; mild age-toning to interior text/illustrations clear and legible; "Chessie" was a fictional cat character adapted from the orig. Gruenwald etching initially promoted as an advertising campaign that eventually became the official mascot of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad-Chessie first appeared unnamed in the September 1933 issue of Fortune Magazine with the caption "Sleep Like a Kitten"-the character's popularity resulted in CHESSIE written and illustrated by Ruth Carroll pub.1936 followed by CHESSIE AND HER KITTENS in 1937; shelved Case 14. 1286103. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Veritas Press unknown books