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New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard /. Chanticleer Edition, 1957. First US Edition. Small slim quarto (22cm); publisher's cloth in pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; 36pp.; color illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket and cloth margins with smallish losses at jacket spine ends briefly affecting text, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound example. Forms part of the How and Why Series. Gorgeous and scarce picture book by the German designer Marie Neurath (1898-1986), known for developing, together with her spouse Otto Neurath, the pictographic language known as the International System of Typographic Picture Education (Isotype). In her later career Neurath applied the same fundamentals to create a series of educational picture books which were collected into an exhibition at the House of Illustration in 2019.