Sunshine: A Story About the City of New York
New York: Simon and Schuster, (1950). Single volume, measuring 12 x 9 inches: [44]. Original color pictorial paper boards, color pictorial endpapers, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout text. Bookseller label (Paul Elder's Books, San Francisco) to lower corner of final page. Edgewear to jacket, corners lightly rubbed.
First edition of this quintessentially New York tale of real estate, show business, and entrepreneurial pluck. When the high-strung Mr. Sunshine unwittingly leases an apartment to Miss Moore's boisterous music school, he's determined to drive the children out, but their creativity saves the day. Best remembered for his Madeline books, which introduced generations of children to the landmarks of Paris, Bemelmans provides a pictorial guide to New York City in Sunshine: the action unfolds in and around the Statue of Liberty, Gramercy Park, City Hall, the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, Riverside Park, Carnegie Hall, and “LaGuardia Field." A near-fine copy.
Price: $250.00