JOHNNY GRUELLE COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS 1919 LITTLE SUNNY STORIES VOLLAND HARDCOVER

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1994 LITTLE SUNNY STORIES JOHNNY GRUELLEDescription:Up For Sale Today isLittle Sunny StoriesThe Singing ThreadThe Way to FairylandMrs. Goodluck CricketbyJohnny GruelleHardcover. 8vo. M. A. Donohue & Company/P.F. Volland. 1919. Unpaginated. Illustrated with Color Plates.Bound in cloth boards with black titles present. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Light foxing present. small tear present to the margins of the text block. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.FROM WIKIPEDIA:Johnny Gruelle (December 24, 1880 - January 8, 1938) was an American artist, political cartoonist, children's book author and illustrator (and even songwriter). He is known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. He had such confidence in his design that often he would create the final ink work without first sketching in pencilHe was born John Barton Gruelle in Arcola, Illinois. His father Richard Gruelle was an artist affiliated with the Hoosier Group of Indiana artists. His first well known cartooning work was Mr. Twee Deedle which Gruelle created after he beat out 1,500 entrants to win a cartooning contest sponsored in 1911 by The New York Herald. Mr. Twee Deedle was in print from 1911 to 1914. Prior to this Gruelle had many single panel newspaper cartoons printed under the pen name "Grue", for example "Life In Eden" in 1907 and the sports cartoon "A Few More Weeks And Then" in 1910.Gruelle gave his daughter Marcella a dusty, faceless rag doll which she found in the attic. He drew a face on the doll and named her Raggedy Ann. Marcella played with the doll so much, Gruelle figured other children would like the doll too. Gruelle's Raggedy Ann doll U.S. Patent D47,789 was dated September 7, 1915. In 1918, the PF Volland Company published Raggedy Ann Stories. Gruelle then created a series of popular Raggedy Ann books and dolls. These became Volland's major source of revenue.Marcella Gruelle, after being vaccinated at her school for smallpox, was given an unidentified second shot without parental consent. She soon contracted diphtheria and died at the age of 13. After this blow, family friends described Gruelle as "possessed, with a heavy countenance, and ... with the only thing he would bear to have near him as a reminder of Marcella a rag doll."Gruelle's "Raggedy Ann's Sunny Songs" was set to music by William H. Woodin, who in 1933 was appointed FDR's first Secretary of the Treasury. One of Gruelle's characters is Little Wooden Willie, a reference to Will Woodin.Gruelle lived in the Silvermine section of New Canaan, Connecticut, where the dolls were first mass-produced, and later moved his home and company to neighboring Wilton, Connecticut. Gruelle spent a year in Ashland, Oregon from 1923-24. He had a long-standing heart condition, and died in Miami Beach, Florida on January 8, 1938, of a heart attack.Book formats and corresponding sizes Name Abbreviations Leaves Pages Approximate cover size (width × height) inches cm folio 2º or fo 2 4 12 × 19 30 × 48 quarto 4º or 4to 4 8 9½ × 12 24 × 30 octavo 8º or 8vo 8 16 6 × 9 15 × 23 duodecimo or twelvemo 12º or 12mo 12 24 5 × 7⅜ 12.5 × 19 sextodecimo or sixteenmo 16º or 16mo 16 32 4 × 6¾ 10 × 17 octodecimo or eighteenmo 18º or 18mo 18 36 4 × 6½ 10 × 16 trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo 32º or 32mo 32 64 3½ × 5½ 9 × 14 quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo 48º or 48mo 48 96 2½ × 4 6.5 × 10 sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo 64º or 64mo 64 128 2 × 3 5 × 7.5ALL ITEMS ARE DESCRIBED TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY!PLEASE CHECK ALL THE PHOTOSBEFORE BIDDING. IF THE DESCRIPTION AND THE PHOTOS DO NOT MATCH THE PHOTOS TAKE PRECEDENCE!IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION PLEASE ASK BEFORE THE END OF THE AUCTIONALL ITEMS ARE PACKED IN A WATERPROOF CUSTOM FITTED BAG, WRAPPED IN 2 LAYERS OF BUBBLE WRAP AND THEN PLACED INTO A CUSTOM FITTED CARDBOARD MAILER.IF YOU WIN A LARGE NUMBER OF BOOKS OR A SET; THE ITEMS WILL BE SHIPPED IN... read more

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