Johnson, Crockett — Harold's Fairy Tale

New York, Harper and Brothers, 1956. Cloth. Perhaps second printing. $1.75 price sticker on the upper front flap. Lower front flap clipped. Illustrated paper covered boards with cloth spine, in matching jacket. Unpaginated. Illustrations throughout. Second book featuring Harold and his purple crayon. Despite its simplicity, the Harold books became classics in children's literature, influencing authors/artists such as Maurice Sendak. GOOD jacket and book. Front jacket cover sticker removed, resulting in a large area of surface loss to the jacket near the lower left corner. Minor toning and soiling. Foxing to the rear jacket panel. Some scuffing to the jacket extremities, with minor chipping, pulling and fraying at the spine tips. Some toning to the book edges, with foxing to the top page edges. Minor soiling. Edges bumped and scuffed. Good/Good.