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PIPER, Watty, pseudonym. The Little Engine That Could. New York: Platt and Munk, 1930.
8o. Illustrated by Lois L. Lenski. Original red cloth with paper pictorial label on front cover, illustrated endpapers (some very pale spotting to label); pictorial dust jacket (a few tape repairs on verso, a few chips and small tears, some soiling). Provenance: David Haegg (gift inscription on half-title); R.C. Haegg (ownership stamp on front and back pastedown and front flap of dust jacket).
FIRST EDITION of this children's classic containing the famous phrase " I think I can. I think I can." Although "Watty Piper," a pseudonym created by the publishers, was credited with the retelling of this story, the original version, entitled The Pony Engine, is attributed to Mabel C. Bragg on the title-page of this edition. Ms. Bragg, who was a well-known educator in Boston, never claimed to have originated the story, and it was in fact a woman named Mary Jacobs who wrote The Pony Engine in 1910. The earliest known published version of the tale, although it is much shorter, appeared in Wellspring for Young People, a children's Sunday school publication in 1906 with no author listed.
8o. Illustrated by Lois L. Lenski. Original red cloth with paper pictorial label on front cover, illustrated endpapers (some very pale spotting to label); pictorial dust jacket (a few tape repairs on verso, a few chips and small tears, some soiling). Provenance: David Haegg (gift inscription on half-title); R.C. Haegg (ownership stamp on front and back pastedown and front flap of dust jacket).
FIRST EDITION of this children's classic containing the famous phrase " I think I can. I think I can." Although "Watty Piper," a pseudonym created by the publishers, was credited with the retelling of this story, the original version, entitled The Pony Engine, is attributed to Mabel C. Bragg on the title-page of this edition. Ms. Bragg, who was a well-known educator in Boston, never claimed to have originated the story, and it was in fact a woman named Mary Jacobs who wrote The Pony Engine in 1910. The earliest known published version of the tale, although it is much shorter, appeared in Wellspring for Young People, a children's Sunday school publication in 1906 with no author listed.
PIPER, Watty, pseudonym. The Little Engine That Could. New York: Platt and Munk, 1930.
8o. Illustrated by Lois L. Lenski. Original red cloth with paper pictorial label on front cover, illustrated endpapers (some very pale spotting to label); pictorial dust jacket (a few tape repairs on verso, a few chips and small tears, some soiling). Provenance: David Haegg (gift inscription on half-title); R.C. Haegg (ownership stamp on front and back pastedown and front flap of dust jacket).
FIRST EDITION of this children's classic containing the famous phrase " I think I can. I think I can." Although "Watty Piper," a pseudonym created by the publishers, was credited with the retelling of this story, the original version, entitled The Pony Engine, is attributed to Mabel C. Bragg on the title-page of this edition. Ms. Bragg, who was a well-known educator in Boston, never claimed to have originated the story, and it was in fact a woman named Mary Jacobs who wrote The Pony Engine in 1910. The earliest known published version of the tale, although it is much shorter, appeared in Wellspring for Young People, a children's Sunday school publication in 1906 with no author listed.
8o. Illustrated by Lois L. Lenski. Original red cloth with paper pictorial label on front cover, illustrated endpapers (some very pale spotting to label); pictorial dust jacket (a few tape repairs on verso, a few chips and small tears, some soiling). Provenance: David Haegg (gift inscription on half-title); R.C. Haegg (ownership stamp on front and back pastedown and front flap of dust jacket).
FIRST EDITION of this children's classic containing the famous phrase " I think I can. I think I can." Although "Watty Piper," a pseudonym created by the publishers, was credited with the retelling of this story, the original version, entitled The Pony Engine, is attributed to Mabel C. Bragg on the title-page of this edition. Ms. Bragg, who was a well-known educator in Boston, never claimed to have originated the story, and it was in fact a woman named Mary Jacobs who wrote The Pony Engine in 1910. The earliest known published version of the tale, although it is much shorter, appeared in Wellspring for Young People, a children's Sunday school publication in 1906 with no author listed.