All About Mickie Long-Tail

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1926. Lucy RENOUF. [JUVENILE] [WOMAN AUTHOR] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Lucy RENOUF, illustrator.

First edition thus. 24mo (5 7/16” x 4 ¼”); [1-6], 7-47 [1]; gray boards, lettering in dark green on front and spine, color pictorial onlay of a baby and monkey; color 8 colored plates including fp; line drawing on title page and in text; unclipped color pictorial dust jacket, rear panel publisher’s ads and price of 40 cents, light hand soiling; near fine in vg dj. OCLC records 3 copies. This is the somewhat sad story of a monkey in captivity, who does not find happiness in freedom because he is homesick for a human (truncated) child with whom he had lived.

OCLC records a long list of juvenile books by this author, but this title, author, and illustrator are not listed in Baumgarten, nor discovered in any other reference. Per OCLC, there appears to be a prior printing in London in 1911, but it is listed without the name of the publisher. This appears to be the first edition for Cupples & Leon, and the most recent of The All About Series listed on page 6 and on the rear dust jacket, where it appears as number 14 in the series. (Inventory #: 1999)