I came across another beautiful edition from this series the other day, and, before I release it to a Little Free Library, I wanted to share the endpapers illustration for posterity. It's full of castles and dragons and animals and witches and many more images to captivate young readers. (The image of the gun is less than entralling, though.)
I'm not sure if these endpapers were used for every Junior Deluxe edition. This one is the 1957 Norwegian folk-tale collection East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon, by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe. I hope this nice copy ends up sparking the imaginations of many future generations of young and young-at-heart readers.
Other posts with endpapers illustrations
- Curious artistic endpapers from the 1912 novel "Corporal Cameron"
- Dubble Bubble Quiz tucked away inside an old schoolbook
- Birds wearing clothes to help children learn to read in 1930
- Sheep featured on endpapers of Elson Junior Literature book
- 1936's "Albanian Wonder Tales": Frontispiece and endpapers
- Cool map featured on endpapers of "At Camp Kee Tov"
- The Three Investigators #1: The Secret of Terror Castle
- Gorgeous endpapers in 1895's "The Young Conductor"
- "Joyce of the Secret Squadron: A Captain Midnight Adventure"
- 3 cool things: The Story of Siegfried (published 1931)
- Endpapers and title page for 1920 primer: "The Winston Readers"
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