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The Little Jacaranda Tree
Fifteen Stories for Young South Africans

Item date(s): May, November 1942. September 1943

Walter Whall Battiss (1906-1982) - (illustrated by)
E. E. Merritt - (written by)

Pages: 58pp
Size: 184mm; 214mm
Inscription: Inscribed

Place publication: Durban, RSA
Publisher: The Knox Publishing Company
Battiss bibliography 05

Additional notes:
Ex Libris. signed Warren Siebrits. 2004.

First edition, May 1942. With dust jacket. [Check this edition]

Second edition, November 1942. Larger size (214mm) and wove paper. This copy from the Battiss Archive. Missing dust-jacket.

Third edition, March 1943 (not found)

Fourth edition, September 1943. Smaller size (184mm) and glossy paper. This copy from the Battiss Archive. Missing dust-jacket.

On the inside front jacket of the fourth edition:

The illustrations by Walter Battiss, on whose account I bought this book, seem to me to be very good, although I am no judge. Pp3 & 36: the figures seem not to be drawn from models.

p29: the windmill: Good.

p46: the smile on the "face" of the crocodile is very well done. Animals seem to be better drawn than humans. 3/XII. [signed with the initial 'W'.]

Ref: SA/2075