The Nutshell Library; Alligators All Around; Chicken Soup With Rice; Pierre, a cautionary tale; One Was Johnny.

SENDAK, Maurice (illustrator).

Data di pubblicazione: 1962

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New York. Harper & Row, Publishers. 1962. 24mo. 4 volumes, housed in original pictorial card slipcase; original pink cloth bindings lettered in purple to spine, with oak leaf device to upper covers; each in pictorial dustwrapper and collected in the slipcase; pp. [32]; [v], 6-30 + [i]; [iv], 5-48; [47]; each work illustrated throughout in colour by Sendak; a fresh set in equally nice dustwrappers with light rubbing, small nicking and shadowed darkening to lower panels of 2 books; the slipcase with minor abrasion to corners. First edition, as published in the U.S., without the price sticker of $2.95 on the slipcase which remains on some boxes and sets the seal on the first edition status. It is generally recognised that sets in pink cloth bindings are first editions; later editions use variant coloured cloth. This miniature set comprises an alphabet, a counting book, a book of months and a cautionary tale. Codice articolo 2118574

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Titolo: The Nutshell Library; Alligators All Around;...

Data di pubblicazione: 1962

Legatura: Rilegato

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Edizione: prima edizione