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#C-32 - "Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax" by Ethel Clere Chamberlin - Pictures by Janet Laura Scott - Published by Saalfield, 1927 - $15.00 Hard-bound in illustrated, paper-covered boards with a red cloth spine, in an unclipped dustjacket. This is a series of 11 short stories... all true... told by a Great Grandfather to young Bobby and Sue. They have titles like Penguins, Tipping the Hat, About Thimbles, The Printing Press, The First Sunday School, The Atlantic Cable, About Pine, From Pine Knots to Electric Lights, How the Beavers Saved a Town, Sealing Wax, and About Totem Poles! Beautifully written by Ethel Clere Chamberlain, it is illustrated with 4-dozen illustrations, of which 21 are in full-color and 4 of these being double-page!! Stories to delight any child or adult, in a comfortable narrative style that is a joy to read! The condition of the book is VeryGood, with light bumping and rubbing at the corners and edges of the cover, with the underlying boards just peeking out at the corner tips. The binding is intact and tight, and the interior pages are crisp, clean, tight and complete with only a couple of faint handling smudges noted as we thumbed through the pages. The dustjacket is in Good condition, with a 1/2" x 1" chip missing at the top of the spine, and very small chips at 3 of the corners and the bottom of the spine. It is secure from further damage in its protective mylar jacket cover. Otherwise it is crisp, clean and without other faults. A truly charming book, illustrated in the Art Deco Style, and one that anyone would be proud to own and display!