THREE GOOD FRIENDS, William Wiesner, 1st Edition in dust jacket, 1946, shop folk tale

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THREE GOOD FRIENDS, William Wiesner, 1st Edition in dust jacket, 1946, shop folk tale, Wiesner William Three Good Friends An Old Story Retold and Illustrated New York: Harper.
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Product code: THREE GOOD FRIENDS, William Wiesner, 1st Edition in dust jacket, 1946, shop folk tale

Wiesner, William.

Three Good Friends, An Old Story Retold and Illustrated.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946. First Edition. 4to.

Near Fine / Very Good.

Pictorial boards with cloth spine, light shelf wear else clean and beautiful; matching dust jacket with a few scrapes, wear and tiny losses. Retelling of an old Viennese folk tale about how two close friends learn to accept a new friend. Lively, colorful artwork throughout. Wiesner fled Vienna in 1938 for fear of persecution, ending up in New York where he had intended to start a shop puppet theater, for which he was famous in his homeland. However, he found more work as an illustrator of children's books and as a muralist. See German Children's & Youth Lit. in Exile pgs 272-3.

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