Product Description
Inscribed first printing of this tale of the journeys of a steam fire engine after it is stolen from a New York City firehouse, a "cross-country cavalcade of American life during the nineteenth century" (jacket).
This fire engine odyssey features atmospheric illustrations by the incomparable Lynd Ward, six years before his Caldecott Medal win.
This copy of THE GOLDEN FLASH is signed by both Ward and May McNeer, and was given as a gift by Ward's father, Harry.
8.5'' x 5.5''.
Original red pictorial cloth binding.
Original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket.
Red topstain.
Color frontispiece with six full-page color illustrations and numerous black-and-white illustrations.
228 pages.
Signed by McNeer and Ward to half title page.
Inscribed "To the Johnson Family / from / The Harry Wards.
/ 1947" to recto of frontispiece.
Jacket with various edgewear, two tiny holes to spine and light chipping to corners and spine ends; several careful tape repairs to reverse.
Binding with mild bumping to spine ends.
Interior sharp and bright.
Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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