[Children's/Gruelle/Morrow]. 2 Titles (3 Vols), each signed with an original drawing. ++ Justin C. Gruelle. A MOTHER GOOSE PARADE. 2 Copies (both signed and inscribed w/ orig drawing). Joliet/NY/Bos: P. F. Volland Co., (©1929). Both are 1st editions. In each copy, the page facing the title page is signed and inscribed with an original drawing. In one, the inscription is “Dear Nonnie, Here’s a picture book, with merry jingles too. T’was made because I’m very fond of boys and girls like you/ Justin C. Gruelle.” In the one inscribed to Nonnie, the drawing is in purple and shows a girl reading a book. The other is inscribed “Dear Skippy, May kindly thoughts be in your heart and as you think and dream and play, may kindly deeds be in your hand and love walk with you all the way./ Your friend/ Justin C. Gruelle.” The one inscribed to Skippy has a drawing of a small child walking along a black, gray, and red tree branch. 4to. ¼ navy blue cloth and illustrated paper-covered boards. Pictorial eps. External soiling and minor staining. Corners of covers frayed. The one inscribed to Skippy has edgeworn covers and stray pencil marks to rear pastedown. Previous owner’s bookplate on 1 front pastedown. ++ Elizabeth Morrow. THE PAINTED PIG: A Mexican Picture Book. Rene D’Harnoncourt illustrator. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, (1930). 4to. Pink cloth; very good. White dj is toned, moderately dampstained. Chipping to dj’s spine ends and some points along dj edges, some tears to top/bottom of dj panels. Ffep bears an original drawing of a man being chased through the desert by a Donkey, signed by Rene D’Harnoncourt and inscribed “For Skippy.”