Travels Of A Rolled Oat.
Chicago: Quaker Oats Company, School Health Service, 1931.
Duodecimo, stapled in wrappers (18.8 x 13.5 cm.), 77, [ii] pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. Quaker Oat's School Health Service no. 4, from the series recommended for fourth and fifth graders. A charming story that starts in a toy shop,and tells the story of oats, and how they reach the breakfast table. Illustrator Jessie Gillespie [Willing] "was a very talented illustrator, with great sensitivity to negative space, visual rhythm and graphic composition. She's best known for her work for the Girl Scouts of America, Association Men Magazine (for the YMCA), Ladies Home Journal, Life, and Vogue" (D. B. Dowd online). A bit of crinkling to front panel of wrapper; one small abrasion to fore edge of wrapper, otherwise fine.
Price: $60.00