Make Way For Ducklings

1941. New York: The Viking Press, 1941.

Roy. 8vo, [67] pp. Letterpress text and drawings in lithographic crayon on zinc, printed throughout in brown with title page lettered in green, pictorial endpapers. Beige cloth, lettered and pictorially stamped in green. Dust-jacket printed in green and brown, $2.00 price flap unclipped. A little edge wear to dust-jacket and half inch chip to bottom of spine, some toning of pastedowns but otherwise a lovely bright copy inside and out.

§ From the library of Nobel Laureate in Physics Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, signed by him, with his bookplate and with a compliments card signed by the author (truncated) both loosely inserted. First edition in an early dustjacket, still priced $2.00, and with the Caldecott Medal sticker for 1942. Chandrasekhar's seminal work in astrophysics led to the currently accepted theories on the lives of black holes. (Inventory #: 107120)