THREE GOOD FRIENDS, William Wiesner, 1st Edition buy in dust jacket, 1946, folk tale

Wiesner, William.

Three Good Friends, An Old Story Retold and Illustrated.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1946. First Edition. 4to.

Near Fine / Very Good.

Pictorial boards with cloth spine, light shelf wear else clean and beautiful; matching dust jacket with a few scrapes, wear and tiny losses. Retelling buy of an old Viennese folk tale about how two close friends learn to accept a new friend. Lively, colorful artwork throughout. Wiesner fled Vienna in 1938 for fear of persecution, ending up in New York where he had intended to start a puppet theater, for which he was famous in his homeland. However, he found more work as an illustrator of children's books and as a muralist. See German Children's & Youth Lit. in Exile pgs 272-3.