{"product_id":"1942-first-edition-with-dust-jacket-dorcas-porkus-illustrated-by-tasha-tudor","title":"1942 First Edition with Dust Jacket - Dorcas Porkus Illustrated by Tasha Tudor","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe scarce 1942 first edition of Tasha Tudor’s charming early “Calico Book,” preserved in its original illustrated dust jacket with the 75-cent price intact.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Tasha Tudor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eDorcas Porkus.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e New York, Oxford University Press, 1942.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First Edition, First Printing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unpaginated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4.5\" x 4\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good original yellow cloth patterned with white polka dots, with blue-lettered title panel to the front board. Binding remains bright, tight, and sound, with light rubbing and wear to the extremities. In the scarce original pictorial dust jacket, \u003cstrong\u003eGood\u003c\/strong\u003e, with general toning and soiling, rubbing, creasing, small chips and closed tears along the edges and spine extremities, as shown. The original \u003cstrong\u003e$0.75 price remains unclipped on the front flap\u003c\/strong\u003e. Protected in a removable mylar cover. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContent:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good. Internally clean, sound, and well preserved, with only light age-toning and occasional minor marks. The illustrated “This Book Belongs to” panel remains unused, with no ownership inscription noted. Calligraphy by Hilda Scott.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrations:\u003c\/strong\u003e Delightfully illustrated throughout in colour by Tasha Tudor, with full-page and vignette illustrations, decorative pictorial initials, illustrated title page, and pictorial endpapers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEstimate: \u003c\/strong\u003eUSD 250–350.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe book:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished in 1942, \u003cem\u003eDorcas Porkus\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Tasha Tudor’s earliest picture books and one of the diminutive volumes issued by Oxford University Press as the “Calico Books.” The story follows Dorcas, an unusually well-mannered little pig belonging to Tom and Sylvie Ann, whose attempted bath on the day of a quilting party produces predictably comic and disastrous consequences. Tudor’s affectionate portrayal of farm life, children, animals, gardens, and domestic interiors already displays the nostalgic rural world that would become inseparable from her work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eParticularly desirable here is the survival of the original pictorial dust jacket with its 75-cent price intact. Early Tudor books are frequently encountered without their jackets, and the combination of the bright yellow polka-dot binding, charming colour illustrations, hand-lettered text, and original jacket makes this a particularly appealing example for collectors of Tasha Tudor and twentieth-century illustrated children’s books. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe author:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTasha Tudor (1915–2008) was an American illustrator and author whose distinctive watercolours and carefully observed scenes of traditional rural life made her one of the most recognizable children’s-book artists of the twentieth century. \u003cem\u003eDorcas Porkus\u003c\/em\u003e, published only a few years after her first book, belongs to the formative period of her career; her official bibliography places it among her earliest commercially published works, preceding such later classics as \u003cem\u003eMother Goose\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Child’s Garden of Verses\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"contents\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTudor eventually illustrated nearly one hundred books and developed an artistic world of gardens, old houses, children, corgis, farm animals, and nineteenth-century domestic life. The intimacy and humour already evident in \u003cem\u003eDorcas Porkus\u003c\/em\u003e make these early miniature books especially appealing to collectors, while examples retaining their original dust jackets have become increasingly difficult to find.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MFLIBRA - Antique Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49053595173113,"sku":null,"price":180.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0953\/3348\/files\/20260912dorcas_01.jpg?v=1789223067","url":"https:\/\/mflibra.com\/products\/1942-first-edition-with-dust-jacket-dorcas-porkus-illustrated-by-tasha-tudor","provider":"MFLIBRA - Antique Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}