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Unconditional Satisfaction GuaranteeNo Shipping Fees Above 302 Months to Decide. Returns Simplified.LAWSON, Robert. Ben and Me. A New and Astonishing Life of Benjamin Franklin as written by his Good Mouse Amos. Lately Discovered, Edited & Illustrated by Robert Laswon. Boston: Little, Brown, 1939. 8vo, x 114pp. Light brown cloth pictorially stamped in brown. Pictorial endpapers; 2 double-page, 6 full-page and numerous smaller b&w illustrations. Lower spine end slightly rubbed, else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, slight edge wear along top).
First edition. The charming, fictionalized tale of how the celebrated American inventor and diplomat Benjamin Franklin got his most influential ideas from his mouse friend Amos! Robert Lawson, the only person to ever win both the Newbery and Caldecott Medals and perhaps best-known for illustrating The Story of Ferdinand and Mr. Poppers Penguins, brings humor and history to this lovely tale filled with intricately detailed and action-filled illustrations. The first of his four biographies of famous Americans as told by the animals who assisted them.
