The Modern Story Book, Wallace Wadsworth, Rand McNally & Company, 1941, HC, VG.

Wadsworth, Wallace. New York, Rand McNally & Company, 1941. 

English, Very Good, Hardcover, 4to, 12 1/4" x 10", 112 pp.

Red pictorial cloth over board, featuring pasted down paper with full-color illustration to front, white lettering to front, no lettering to spine, minor wear and tear to edges, tips, head, and tail, faint black lines across back panel, light thumbprints throughout text, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. [10] 112 pp., replete with full-color and black line illustrations by Ruth Eger, green endpapers with white illustrations, list of Illustrations in Color, and nine separate stories. Beautifully illustrated children's book with stories centering modern machines, as of the 1940s, with "The Fire Engine That Grew Too Old" to "The Tractor That Took a Holiday."