CORY, DAVID — White Otter

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1934. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book has a pictorial pastedown on the entire front cover of the book (with the exception of the spine). The white book covers have noticeable ground-in dirt and some lightish toning. There is bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers, along with some spots of fraying to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. "In 1915 Cory began writing a daily Jack Rabbit bedtime story for the New York Evening Mail. In 1923 he switched newspapers, and his stories were printed in the New York Evening World. His Jack Rabbit stories were syndicated in newspapers for forty years. After his stories appeared in newspapers they were compiled into a series of books. Other David Cory book series published in the 1920s include Puss-In-Boots, Jr, Little Journey to Happyland, and Billy Bunny. During the 1930s Cory wrote the Little Indian book series. In the Acknowledgments of the volume entitled Hawk Eye Cory listed authors who helped him learn about the customs and legends of the Sioux. Those authors included George Bird Grinnell and Charles Eastman." (from Wikipedia). Very Good- .