Mr. Kelso's Lion

Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1970. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22.5cm); original pictorial cloth boards; [8],9-48pp; with black & white illustrations by Len Ebert. Light wear to extremities, with a few spots of foxing to upper edge of inner front cover, and rough erasure to a previous owner's name at upper front endpaper; contents clean; Near Fine, lacking the pictorial dustjacket. Late children's book by poet, novelist, and noted Harlem Renaissance figure Arna Bontemps (1902-1973). The story is centered around a young boy and his grandfather, who go to visit family out in the country, and discover one of their neighbors is boarding a lion. Copies that have not made their way through the library system are elusive in commerce. Not in BLOCKSON. 86283.