D'Aulaire, Ingri and Edgar Parin. ANIMALS EVERYWHERE. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1940. FIRST EDITION. 4to - 8-1/4" x 11-1/4". Orange cloth covered boards with title, authors and pictorial illustration delicately printed in white on upper cover with light mottling to the cloth and slight touches of rubbing to the corners and to the head and tail of spine for what is a clean fresh copy of the book. Original publisher's priced ($1.25) dust wrapper with light touches of wear to the flap fold corners and to the head and tail of spine, closed edge tears and light overall dusting/soiling for what is a lovely proper (1st edition) copy of the dust wrapper. Color pictorial paste-down endpapers. [13] leaves. Printed on a continuous sheet of paper which has been folded accordion style, this panorama for nursery age children shows the panorama of animal life from the tropics to the frigid north. On one side, crayon lithographs in rich colors show the animals in their native settings, with simple descriptive text below; on the other side, printed in dark blue and white, the same animals appear with their backs turned to the reader, below which the calls and sounds of the animals are given in a simple text. Internally, the book is without flaw. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. The condition of the dust wrapper is VERY GOOD +. # 000658
