The Little Boy And His House
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*This is copy was signed in 1947 by both Stephen Bone & Mary Adshead* The book has some wear around the edges as can be expected from a children's book of this age, unfortunately two pages have rips in the corners *See Photos* The Little Boy and His House was published by; J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd in 1936, a collaborations between Stephen Bone (author) and Mary Adshead (illustrator). The book featured fourteen colour-lithographed plates together with printed calligraphic text and other illustrations and decorations in black and white The story tells of a little boy who wants to build a house because he always seems to be either too hot or too cold in his own. His uncle takes him on a worldwide trip to discover how people from other cultures construct their homes. They visit cave dwellers, gypsies, Red Indians, Eskimos, boat people in China, straw hut and adobe house-dwellers in Africa, stone quarriers in Ireland and log house builders in Sweden, among others.
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