Rare unsigned book: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton. First edition (correct publication year of 1939 on front and back of title page). Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1939. Hardcover with dust jacket (retaining the "$1." portion of the correct $1.50 price, with $1.50 penciled underneath on the front pastedown), 9.75 x 8.75, 48 pages. Book condition: VG/VG, with a partially price-clipped dust jacket and bookplate to first free end page.