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Title: Rare 1st illustrated children’s book, 1931, plus her second book Author: Place: Various Places Publisher: Various Publishers Date: Various Dates Description: Includes: Baruch, Dorothy Walter. I Like Automobiles (John Day Co., NY, 1931) First Edition. Original cloth binding. Illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa with red and black endpapers, 25 full-page plates and smaller text drawings on title-page and half-title. With a copy of her second book: Robert Louis Stevenson A Child’s Garden of Verses. Illustrated by Gyo Fujikawa (Grosset & Dunlap, NY, 1957) Possible First Edition. Original illustrated cloth in Dust Jacket. 9.25 x 12.25 inches, 105pp. The rare first book illustrated, at age 23, by Californian Gyo Fujikawa after graduation from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Over the next 25 years, the Berkeley-born Japanese-American artist (whose family spent World War II in an internment camp) would do much commercial work – unsigned and uncredited - as art director of an advertising agency and illustrator for Walt Disney Not until 1957 would she illustrate her second children’s book, the start of three decades as author and illustrator of more than 50 books before her death in 1998. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 247819