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Author: Burton, Virginia Lee
Title: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1939
Description: [48] pp. Illustrated throughout in color by the author. 22x23.5 cm (8¾x9¼"), pictorial linen, color pictorial jacket. First Edition.Mike Mulligan, a steam shovel operator. Mike proves that, although dated, his steam shovel is still useful. When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Anne (whose name was based on Marion Steam Shovels), lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they find a new opportunity in a very surprising place. The first edition is quite rare, especially so in dust jacket.

Jacket slightly sunned and worn, rubbing along joints and edges; touches of wear to boards; very good.